University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust is incredibly proud to become the first university hospital in the UK to be awarded the internationally acclaimed Pathway to Excellence® designation.
Accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Pathway to Excellence® programme is recognised by organisations globally for nursing and midwifery excellence.
UHCW’s designation as an internationally recognised Pathway to Excellence® organisation demonstrates we're leading the way in enhancing quality of care, patient and staff safety, and the future of healthcare delivery.
The Pathway to Excellence® programme is a framework for nursing and midwifery excellence, focussed on creating and sustaining a positive practice environment for our staff.
It is recognised globally as enabling excellence within our professions, instilling a strong sense of professional pride and offers proven strategies to help ensure that the care that we deliver to our patients and populations is of the highest calibre.
The Pathway to Excellence® framework aligns closely with the Chief Nursing Officer for England Ruth May’s national vision to establish a country-wide collective leadership model, with a focus on transformational leadership, research and innovation.
Shared Decision-Making: Creating opportunities for direct care staff to network, collaborate, share ideas, and be involved in decision-making.
Leadership: Supporting a shared decision-making environment by ensuring that leaders are accessible and that they facilitate collaborative decision-making.
Safety: Prioritising both patient and staff safety, and fostering a respectful workplace culture free of incivility, bullying, and violence.
Quality: Central to our mission, vision, goals, and values, and is based on person- and family-centred care, evidence-based care, continuous improvement, and improving population health.
Wellbeing: Promoting a workplace culture which provides staff with support and resources to promote their physical and mental health.
These standards are the fundamentals in developing a positive practice environment.
The elements of performance for each standard impact a range of factors that influence bottom line results, such as reduced employee turnover, increased job satisfaction and staff engagement, improvements in nursing and midwifery sensitive quality indicators, safety events, productivity and ultimately patient satisfaction.
Our nurses and midwives operating on the front line of healthcare are dedicated to protecting, promoting and improving care for all, to do this to the best of their ability you need to operate in an environment that supports staff needs and promotes the highest standards.
Pathway to Excellence® offers us the opportunity to demonstrate our commitment to establishing a healthy workplace for staff and embedding a culture of positive practice.
I am really proud that our nurses and midwives operating at the forefront of healthcare are dedicated to protecting, promoting and improving care for all; and to do this to the best of their ability, they work in an environment that supports staff needs and promotes the highest standards.
Our Pathway to Excellence® Programme highlights our commitment to establishing a healthy workplace for staff and embedding a culture of positive practice.
UHCW NHS Trust became a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation in August 2022, this international recognition demonstrates that our nursing and midwifery staff have a direct role in influencing and enhancing both policy and practice for the benefit of their patients, as well as promoting a healthy work environment where staff feel empowered and valued at the Trust’s two hospitals: University Hospital, Coventry and the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby, as well as our satellite centres across the West Midlands.
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