logo

Supporting the Agenda for Change team at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust

The Challenge

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust is, geographically speaking the Largest Trust in the UK, with 6500 staff dispersed over 9 locations.

NHS Agenda for change affects all staff ask an expert a question

In the A4C program they are facing some daunting challenges: Thousands of documents have to be collated relating to 6,500 staff at nine sites in Northumbria where there are employees with similar jobs but different titles, job descriptions and packages – which all have to be matched to a series of agreed nationally defined roles and pay packages and conditions adjusted accordingly.

Traditional approaches using MS Office documents and email communication would fail to address many of the difficulties:

In conjunction with Northumbria IT and Trust management ecommnet have developed a solution to the above problems based upon a document collaboration platform. This customised solution addresses many of the issues by offering:

Maureen Harwood - Associate Director Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust

“We estimate we will have approximately 1,800 “cluster” jobs to be matched or evaluated– that is people who are in similarly defined roles – and each cluster will generate six documents. With the document management system this whole process offers the potential to become much more manageable, we are able to track the changes made to different versions of documents and as a bonus we get control of our own web site.”

NHS Agenda For Change will gerneate a huge workload for all directorates

A web seminar and demonstration is planned to be held regularly througout 2005. At this event Northumbria Healthcare NHS IT Manager Kevin Dickinson will be available to explain how this solution is being implemented within the Trust and answer any questions from participants.

Making a molehill out of a mountain

14:00 Introduction to the challenges of the A4C program
14:10 requirements for a solution
14:20 Demo
14:30 Trust Management Perspective: Maureen Harwood A4C Project Lead and Associate Director Care Services Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust
14:45 Q&A
15:00

Relevant Links

The DoH Agenda For Change

Agenda for Change Final Agreement (December 2004)

Agenda for Change - What will it mean to you? Official DoH booklet [PDF]

Amicus members vote for Agenda for Change

Freedom of Information

email archiving

The Freedom of Information Act affects all trusts in the NHS. Are you prepared? Is your email archival policy up-to-date? Could you retrieve any email from the past year easily and effectivly and prove it had not been altered? Read our update on email archiving and FOI

MXtreme Secure Email Server
Borderware MXtreme

As the NHS migrates to N3 and internet email becomes business critical service make sure yours doesn't stop with MXtreme's High Availability and load balancing options. Borderware Mxtreme the only EAL 4+ certified email firewall and anti-spam server.

Laptop Encryption

Dell Laptop

Protect the data on your laptop with full hard drive encryption and pre-boot authentication using SafeGuard® Easy.

USB Memory Drives

1Gb USB memory drive

Data is constantly being moved using memory devices rather than floppies. It'll store 1Gb of uncompressed data, it's un-detectable. Can you be sure that it doesn't contain clinical data? Enforce Trust Policy now :- read how to manage and control the use of USB Flash Memory Drives and other Plug and Play devices

PDA Encryption

XDA

PDA's are increasingly being used by Consultants and other senior staff. Prevent unauthorised access and encrypt sensitive data using SafeGuard® PDA

copyright © 2003 ecommnet