Priorities and how we’re doing

Climate change is a threat to our health as well as our planet: our local and the global environment is changing, and the pace of change is accelerating. This has consequences for our patients, staff and the wider NHS. In recognition of this, NHS England set up the greener NHS programme to reduce the impact of the NHS on public health and the environment, save money and achieve net zero carbon.

To support the greener NHS, we have a Board approved green plan, the aim of which is to be recognised as a leader in sustainability and environmental improvements within the NHS and our local community.

Our green plan objectives are to:

1. Embed a Trust-wide approach to sustainability.
2. Consider the environmental impacts of everything we do.
3. Reduce carbon emissions.
4. Reduce consumption and waste.
5. Make a positive impact on our people and communities.

Our green plan has targets to help us achieve the objectives.

To achieve these objectives, we need the support of the whole Trust to follow key principles.

Our plans and response will adapt as care models and working methods change, but our ambitions will not waiver. We will report our progress to the Board and publicly in our annual report.

Useful links

• The green plan.
• The green travel plan.
• West Yorkshire Metro hospitals by bus
• Greener NHS programme
• Bradford Council

Contact

If you have any questions about sustainability at our Trust, please email our Energy, Waste and Sustainability Manager emma.clarke@bdct.nhs.uk.

We have a duty to ask you for your views if our proposals or decisions will affect the services being delivered to you, or if our plans may change the way your service works.

The legal duty is under section 242 (1b) of the NHS Act 2006 that ensures public health bodies involve the people who use their services, either directly or through there representatives.

There are currently no public consultations taking place for our Trust.

Our Trust has rated highly in the annual Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) results since inception, repeatedly exceeding the national average in many areas.

The PLACE visits assess the patient environment and how well it supports and enhances the provision of clinical care.  They are carried out by groups of assessors including service users, relatives, carers, and patient advocates.

The assessments score NHS organisations on cleanliness, quality and availability of food and drink, how well the building meets the needs of the people who use it including being dementia-friendly, and how well the environment protects people’s privacy and dignity.

Our Estates and Facilities service leads initiatives to improve the patient environment, including refurbishments, improvements to therapeutic space, improved signage, new doors and outdoor space initiatives.

The annual results are published on NHS England’s website.

It is a national requirement for all inpatient services to display and publish their staffing levels.

Patient safety is very important to us.  When you visit one of our 13 wards across Lynfield Mount Hospital or Airedale Centre for Mental Health, you will see  ‘staffing level boards’.    These show the planned and actual numbers of staff, both registered nurses and clinical support workers, on shift each day. This does not include support staff, such as a ward clerk or housekeeper.

The boards are displayed on each ward where they can be clearly seen by patients, visitors and staff. They show who is in charge of the shift that day, when the board was last updated, and if the person in charge feels that the ward is safely staffed at that time.

Every month we publish information about our staffing levels – see our public Board meeting papers. The Board hears if our wards are meeting the safer staffing requirement, if action is needed and what steps are being taken to make our wards as safe as possible.  For the latest reports for the monthly staffing ratio by wards at Lynfield Mount Hospital and Airedale Centre for Mental Health,  please email foi.requests@bdct.nhs.uk.

If you would like to discuss the staffing levels of our wards if visiting one of our mental hospitals, you can talk to the person in charge on the ward when you visit.

The trade union (facility time publication requirements) regulations 2017 came in to force in April 2017.

In line with regulation, all employers must publish information on facility time, which is agreed time off from an individual’s job to carry out a trade union role, before 31 July.

Please email foi.requests@bdct.nhs.uk for the latest report.

The National Quality Board (NQB) Learning from Deaths (LfD) Framework guides NHS organisations to publish information on deaths and learning from mortality reviews on a quarterly basis.  The Framework aims to ensure that there is a consistent approach to learning from deaths – both expected due to a clinical condition and unexpected –  across the NHS, and a transparent learning culture and commitment to continuous quality improvement, particularly for the care of vulnerable people.

The quarterly reports below provide evidence that learning is firmly embedded across our Trust.  In line with the LfD Framework, the information is anonymised and there is also a summary of thematic learning from the completed reviews.

Quarterly reports

Learning from deaths report – Q1 2024-25

Learning from deaths report – Q4 2023-24

Learning from deaths report – Q3 2023-24

Learning from deaths report – Q2 2023-24

Learning from deaths report – Q1 2023-24

Learning from Deaths report – Q4 2022-23

Learning from deaths report – Q3 2022-23