WISE-QM launch webinar

FREE for ALL 

A webinar explaining a joint initiative between SOM and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych). WISE-QM is a sector wide quality mark designed to recognise, strengthen, and standardise the provision of workplace wellbeing services. This is important to assist buyers to make effective choices based on evidence, following this report. The quality mark will help occupational health (OH) professionals, and those responsible for purchasing wellbeing products or services, with a signal of who is providing an evidence-based framework. This will help them make informed and effective decisions and ensure there are no unintended consequences for workers. The quality mark should reduce the challenges posed by the increasing number of digital health solutions, such as insufficient evidence of effectiveness, data security issues, and ensuring access and engagement. It will also ensure ongoing monitoring of impact and evaluation of wellbeing interventions to confirm they are achieving the desired outcomes. It provides a trusted benchmark for excellence, ensuring that organisations and employees receive support that is high quality, evidence informed, and genuinely impactful. See RCPsych website here.

During the session, information on how the Quality Mark was created will be shared and a walk through of the methodology that participating services will follow as members. We’ll also share and discuss the new set of standards developed through a rigorous process that drew on current literature, best‑practice guidance, and extensive consultation with practitioners, service leads and professional organisations.

Registration to become pilot members in the first year is now open!  This webinar is the perfect opportunity to learn how your service can get involved in this exciting new programme.

Speaker Bios:

Peter Thompson

Peter is Director for the College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI). In this role, he oversees the work of the College's quality and accreditation networks, national clinical audits, multi source feedback tools and invited review service. Peter has held a number of roles in the CCQI since 2004 and was involved in establishing many of the College's quality and accreditation networks.
Prior to this role, Peter was Head of Education, Standards and Quality Improvement at the Nursing and Midwifery Council where he was responsible for managing the quality assurance of UK education institutions delivering nursing and midwifery education.

Hannah Lucas-Motley
Hannah is Head of Quality and Accreditation within the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement where she oversees 12 quality and accreditation programmes. She has over 10 years of experience in developing and implementing quality standards across a range of different roles, including managing the Safe, Effective, Quality Occupational Health Services (SEQOHS) programme when based at the Royal College of Physicians.
In her current role, Hannah has been involved in establishing a number of new national initiatives to improve the quality of healthcare services, the most recent being the Quality Network for Neuropsychiatry Services.

Jem Jethwa

Jem is the Programme Manager for five Quality Networks and Accreditation programmes at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement. These networks include on memory services, psychological therapy services, veterans’ mental health, patient safety, and neuropsychiatry. Jem leads the delivery and development of these networks, working closely with member services to support teams in meeting high standards of care. 

Chair: Professor Neil Greenberg 

FREE for ALL. You will then be sent the joining link.