The NHS Premises Assurance Model (PAM) for Acute Services has been released to support the NHS in improving the quality and safety of NHS premises while improving efficiency and effectiveness.
The delivery of a service that takes quality as its organising principle, through a period of financial restraint, is the principal challenge facing the NHS over the next 10 years. To assist the NHS in meeting its goals, and in response to this challenge, the NHS and the Department of Health have co-produced the Premises Assurance Model (PAM). The NHS PAM is a management tool, designed to provide a nationally consistent approach to evaluating NHS premises, and to provide assurance and performance against a set of national indicators. It delivers a basis for:
- assurance on the premises in which NHS healthcare is delivered;
- driving premises-related performance improvements throughout the system;
- providing a greater understanding of the vital role that NHS premises play in the delivery of improved clinical outcomes.
The NHS PAM seeks to align local provider local needs and priorities with government legislation and statute to support delivery on:
- High Quality Care for All, published in June 2008, setting out the vision for putting quality at the heart of everything the NHS does;
- The Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) challenge;
- The NHS Constitution;
- The NHS Operating Framework 2010/11;
- Quality Accounts.
The NHS PAM gives NHS healthcare providers the opportunity:
- to undertake a process of evidence backed self-assessment for use by provider trust boards as strategic management information; the model is pre-populated with existing nationally reported information provided by the NHS acute sector
- for a single point methodology for NHS acute providers to locate premises performance and management information
to access information that they can use to improve efficiency and quality of their premises
- to have dialogue with commissioners of service to demonstrate assurance of essential statutory undertakings and quality
- to agree local needs and priorities for improving premises infrastructure, efficiency and quality
- to demonstrate regard for the NHS Constitution in the delivery of safe and effective environments that are utilised to deliver high quality healthcare services
- to derive a quality statement for the healthcare environment which can be utilised in a provider's wider quality account should they so wish.
The focus of the model is on five key domains;
- finance/ value for money;
- safety;
- effectiveness;
- patient experience; and
- board governance.
The NHS PAM is not mandatory. However, it is referenced in the NHS Operating Framework 2010/11, the Budget Statement 2009, the HM Treasury Operational Efficiency Programme Property Review, the Quality Accounts guidance and the Quality and Productivity Challenge (QIPP). In addition, it is also referenced in the NHS Standard Contract for Acute Services.
Source: http://www.clingov.nscsha.nhs.uk/Default.aspx?aid=5051
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