Seven Day Working

NHS Improvement has been working with clinical teams across health and social care to find examples of equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week.

Our case study pages demonstrate where extended working days or weeks have been successfully implemented to ensure that patients are able to readily access both acute, elective and reablement services across primary and secondary care.

CLICK HERE to download Equality for all: Delivering safe care - seven days a week publication.

Click here to hear our stakeholder views on seven day working.

Our work has identified a four levels model of what is currently offered. This is not a progressive model and teams are not expected to traverse all stages. It is merely a snapshot in time of some of the exciting work that is already ongoing.

If your team offer a seven day service we would be delighted to hear from you. Please email: info@improvement.nhs.uk and a member of the team will contact you directly.

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Implementing seven day working in Imaging Departments: Good Practice Guidance – a report from the National Clinical Imaging Advisory Group

Imaging has changed significantly over the last thirty years and imaging services now underpin the diagnostic elements of the vast majority of secondary care patient pathways. They also utilise extremely expensive equipment. To provide timely, appropriate and efficient imaging services, whilst also offering value for money, imaging services are moving from a traditional working week to extended services across the whole week. This guidance explores the issues involved and provides a framework to encourage imaging services to look positively at moving to seven day working.

CLICK HERE to download the document.