Releasing Time to Care: The Productive Ward

Following a period of intensive testing and development with a number of acute trusts in England, the NHS Institute has now launched a series of modules that enable ward staff to increase the time spent on direct patient care. 

Releasing time to care - The Productive Ward focuses on improving ward processes and environments to help nurses and therapists spend more time on patient care thereby improving safety and efficiency.

Rapid Impact Assessment of The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care ™

The Rapid Impact Assessment explores the efficiency and productivity improvements The Productive Ward programme can make across the NHS.  Download the results as an  Executive Summary ( 183.70 KB) or  full report ( 2.41 MB).

Improving healthcare quality at scale and pace - Lessons from The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care programme
Results of the research study commissioned by the NHS Institute and led by The National Nursing Research Unit, King's College, London, are available to download as an  Executive Summary (188.54 KB) or  full report (1.04 MB). You can also download  Top tips for spreading The Productive Ward within NHS Trusts (138.17 KB).

The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care  - Learning and Impact Review
Results of the research study commissioned by the NHS Institute and led by The National Nursing Research Unit, King's College, London, are available to download as an  executive summary (684.52 KB) or  full report (5.91 MB).

Find out how frontline staff are getting on with implementing Productive Ward

Watch all four episodes of the Productive Ward video documentaries 

Visit the updated Productive Ward photo galleries

Learn more about the aims and objectives of Releasing Time to Care 

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