1. South London and Maudslery NHS Trust Nursing Strategy based on ‘Making A Difference: A strategy for nursing in the new NHS’.
Recruiting more nurses
Strengthening education and training.
Developing a modern career framework
Improving working lives
Enhancing the quality of care
Strengthening leadership
Modernising professional self regulation
Working in new ways.

2. Locally Driven Stakeholder Listening Days
Contribution to each chapter project managed by a senior nurse
Senior nurse group reviewed overall content which was merged into 4 sections
Developing the nursing workforce
Enhancing the quality of nursing care and practice
Improving Working Lives
Enhancing Partnerships for Education & Training

3. Developing the nursing workforce
To recruit, develop & support appropriately trained workforce, that reflects the local population and tailors care to ensure its accessibility and responsiveness to the needs of users…the Trust will implement a modern career framework and develop new nursing roles improve services. It will increasingly seek to give to every nurse and related care worker the opportunity to be recognised and rewarded for the contribution they make to services.

4. Developing the nursing workforce
Career pathways
Leadership
Support and infrastructure
Recruitment

5. Enhancing the quality of nursing care and practice
Nursing staff...will seek to uphold their professional code of conduct and related guidance. They will be responsive and open to the feedback of service users, and actively involve them and their carers in all care delivery processes and activities geared at improving the quality of care and treatment. They will adopt the best evidence available in their practice.

6. Enhancing the quality of nursing care and practice
Nursing practice
Supportive infrastructure
Monitoring conduct

7. Improving Working Lives
Staff will feel rewarded, supported and able to balance work life with home life. They will feel in greater control of their working lives and work in safe and healthy environments. Inequalities in working lives will be reduced with the result that the workforce will…..enhance their commitment and contribution to the corporate aims of the organisation.

8. Improving Working Lives
Human Resource issues
Decision making
Safety

9. Enhancing Partnerships for Education & Training
Trust nurses have their development needs met in timely, appropriate evidence based education and training which is delivered according to evaluated development techniques

10. Enhancing Partnerships for Education & Training
Education and Service Partnership

11. Expected Outcomes Improved systems for monitoring conduct
Systematic measuring of quality of care
Systems for sharing practice across the organisation
Clarity in career and succession planning
Reduction in inequalities
Enhanced link between service needs and education provision