Annual NHS Benchmarking Network Steering Group Away Day!
On Thursday 21st November, the Support Team set off to Birmingham to meet with the NHSBN Steering Group for a productive planning day. The agenda for the day included the quarterly governance meeting, discussions around the 2025/26 member work programme, finance, and then rounding off the day with table discussions.
Governance Meeting
The governance meeting covered the progress that the Support Team have made on the 2024/25 member work programme and how this has helped work towards the NHSBN objectives for the year. There have been many improvements that have been implemented over the 2024/25 membership year, such as:
The show code feature
The introduction of the NHSFutures workspace
A new online validation tool
The introduction of the Virtual Wards project
We continue to work with our Steering Group, Reference Groups and members on their feedback to ensure that members’ get the most value out of membership.
2025/26 Member Work Programme
The Support Team then went on to present the proposed Member Work Programme for 2025/26. This included detail of the changes and updates to each project based upon member feedback, ensuring national datasets are utilised where possible to reduce the data burden. The Steering Group approved the Member Work Programme proposal. Communications regarding the 2025/26 Member Work Programme will be sent out to members in the new year.
2025/26 Budget and Membership Fees
The 2025/26 proposed budget and membership fee model were presented to Steering Group members. After discussion around the current financial landscape and the impact of the proposals the budget and membership fee proposals were approved. Communications regarding membership renewals and the 2025/26 membership fees will be sent out to members in the new year.
Technology update
There has been significant investment in technology at NHSBN, which will make the online tools more efficient and effective for our members, whether its registering for a project, uploading data, validation or viewing outputs. Following member feedback, the Support Team have also been working on relaunching the Integrated Care Benchmarker. This will now be known as National Indicators and communications around this are imminent.
2024/25 Steering Group Update:
This membership year we have had some movement within our Steering Group member. You can find out more information about the Steering Group and its current members via our Steering Group webpage.
We have welcomed four new Steering Group members:
Amar Shah, East London NHS Foundation Trust
Helen Potter, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lisa Franklin, Hampshire and Isle of White ICB
Rebecca Taylor, Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
And said thank you and farewell to four Steering Group members:
Gaurav Sharma, West London NHS Trust
Gurprit Pannu, Sussex Health and Care
Hassan Paraiso, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Mohit Venkataram, East London NHS Foundation Trust
We would like to thank all of our Steering Group members for their continued support throughout 2024 and look forward to continuing to work with your in the future.