Pacesetters Programme

The Pacesetters programme is a partnership between local communities, the National Health Service (NHS) and the Department of Health (DH). 

The programme aims, through focused Service Improvement projects, to:

• Improve both the health status of individuals from those communities who experience the greatest health inequalities arising from discrimination, and their experience of the NHS

• Ensure that the NHS is an "employer of choice" and the NHS workplace is free of discrimination

Pacesetters has been piloted and tested in the West Midlands since April 2007 in 3 organisations: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Walsall Integrated Learning Disability Service, and Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust.

Each site has enjoyed considerable success with at least one of its 'test' Service Improvement projects; as such, sites have:

• Showcased their cutting edge work – locally, regionally, nationally and internationally

• Displayed and evidenced the improvements made to local services and the real difference being made to patients’ experience

• Identified and shared common threads that have contributed to successful local delivery

More recently, a recruitment drive resulted in 2 new organisations joining the programme as ‘Wave 2’ sites, these being NHS Birmingham East and North and NHS South Birmingham

  Programme Lead's Annual Report 2008/ 09

Remember:
If you always think the way you’ve always thought, you will always do what you’ve always done; If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got – to get different, do different, to do different, think different!

Balraj S Rai, Programme Lead  Email     0121 695 2478    0796 959 7376