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Improvement Partnership for Ambulance Services (IPAS) Annual Report 2004

Document type:

Annual report
Author:

Department of Health; NHS Modernisation Agency
Published date:

1 December 2004
Primary audience:

Professionals
Alternative title:

IPAS Annual Report 2004
Publication format:

Electronic only
Gateway reference:

5376
Pages:

49
Copyright holder:

Crown

This report has been compiled with the objective of pulling together all of the activities of the IPAS team in order to demonstrate performance and achievements to date and outlining work and future work planned until the programme comes to an end in March 2005.

IPAS was designed to be a joint venture between the Department of Health and the NHS Modernisation Agency with the aim of helping ambulance staff to modernise the service and improve the patient experience. The partnership was allocated funding of one million pounds and it was anticipated that the programme would cease by December 2004 (this was subsequently extended to March 2005). A Service Level Agreement with the Department of Health was established with the following objectives:

Availability of leadership development options to all ambulance trusts
Positive feedback from course participants
Improved star ratings for the 2002/03 and one star trusts in 2004/05 performance ratings. Three out of the nine one star trusts will have improved star rating for 2004/05 performance ratings
Two Learning Exchange events to be held in November 2003
Development of a fully functioning Modernisation Agency (MA) website
Development of specific learning material for ambulance trusts
Development of good practice checklist for ambulance trusts.

At the time of writing this report, IPAS has met all of the objectives outlined in the Service Level Agreement and delivered the majority of the aims set out in the IPAS streams of work.

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