ANNUAL REPORT DEFENCE MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING AGENCY DEFENCE MEDICAL EDUCATION DMETA 2005 - 06 ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - 06 Published by TSO (The Stationery Office) and available from: Online www.tso.co.uk/bookshop Mail, Telephone, Fax & E-mail TSO PO Box 29, Norwich NR3 1GN Telephone orders/General enquiries 0870 600 5522 Fax orders 0870 600 5533 Order through the Parliamentary Hotline Lo-call 0845 7 023474 E-mail [email protected] Textphone 0870 240 3701 TSO Shops 123 Kingsway, London WC2B 6PQ 020 7242 6393 Fax 020 7242 6394 68-69 Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AD 0121 236 9696 Fax 0121 236 9699 9-21 Princess Street, Manchester M60 8AS 0161 834 7201 Fax 0161 833 0634 16 Arthur Street, Belfast BT1 4GD 028 9023 8451 Fax 028 9023 5401 18-19 High Street, Cardiff CF10 1PT 029 2039 5548 Fax 029 2038 4347 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9AZ 0870 606 5566 Fax 0870 606 5588 The Parliamentary Bookshop 12 Bridge Street, Parliament Square, London SW1A 2JX Telephone orders/General enquiries 020 7219 3890 Fax orders 020 7219 3866 TSO Accredited Agents (see Yellow Pages) and through good booksellers 344572_HC 1424_DMETA_Cover / sig1 / plateA 344572_HC 1424_DMETA_Cover / sig1 / plateB 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 1 / Plate A DMETA Annual Report 2005-06 O S T : n o d n o L 4 2 4 1 C H Defence Medical Education. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 19th July 2005. July 19th printed be to Commons of House the by Ordered . of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000. Act Accounts and Resources Government the of and Training Agency Presented to the House of Commons pursuant to section 7 section to pursuant Commons of House the to Presented . 06 2005 Accounts . - Annual Report and. Annual Report and Report Annual . Accounts 2005-06. Presented to the House of Commons pursuant to section 7. and Training Agency Training and of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 19th July 2005. Defence Medical Education Medical Defence . HC 1424 London: TSO DMETA Annual Report 2005-06 Report Annual DMETA 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 1 / Plate A A Plate / 1 Sig: / 344572_HC1424_DMETA 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 1 / Plate B 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 1 / Plate B B Plate / 1 Sig: / 344572_HC1424_DMETA 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 2 / Plate A Contents 72 Contacts 70 Glossary 70 Addenda: Contents Page and Auditor General to the House of Commons of House the to General 48 Auditor and Chief Executive’s Overview 5 Certificate and Report of the Comptroller Comptroller the of Report and Certificate Statement of the Agency’s and Chief Executive’s responsibilities 42 Executive’s Chief and Agency’s the of Statement Section 1: About the Agency 7 Financial Accounts Financial 41 Section 4: Section Agency Aim 8 Objectives 8 DMETA Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2006 March 36 31 ending year the for Accounts and Report Annual DMETA Personnel 8 DMETA Programme Management Framework Management 35 Programme DMETA Organisation 8 Business Continuity Business 35 34 DMICP Section 2: DMETA Performance 2005-6 11 Medical Training to the Midlands (MT2M) Midlands the to Training 34 Medical 2005-06 Key Targets 12 Projects and Programmes and Projects 34 Performance against Key Targets 13 32 DMRC Performance Highlights 15 Quality of Life and Awareness Training Awareness and Life of Quality 31 Financial Review 16 Clinical and Academic Partnerships Academic and Clinical 31 DMETA New Key Targets 2006-07 18 DMETA Clinical Units Clinical DMETA Section 30 3: In-year Activity 19 29 DPMD Support to Operations and Exercises 20 RCDM 25 Headquarters Activities 21 DMETA Education and Training Units Training and Education DMETA 25 Commitments 21 Corporate Communications Corporate 24 Education and Training (ET) 21 Business Assessment and Audit Unit (BAAU) Unit Audit and Assessment 23 Business Corporate Services 23 Corporate Services Corporate 23 Business Assessment and Audit Unit (BAAU) 23 Education and Training (ET) Training and Education 21 Corporate Communications 24 CommitmentsDMETA 21 Education and Training Units 25 Headquarters Activities Headquarters 21 RCDM 25 Support to Operations and Exercises and Operations to Support 20 DPMD 29 In-year Activity In-year 19 Section 3: Section DMETA Clinical Units 30 DMETA New Key Targets 2006-07 Targets Key New DMETA 18 Clinical and Academic Partnerships 31 Financial Review Financial Quality 16 of Life and Awareness Training 31 Performance Highlights Performance 15 DMRC 32 Performance against Key Targets Key against Performance 13 Projects and Programmes 34 2005-06 Key Targets Key 2005-06 12 Medical Training to the Midlands (MT2M) 34 DMETA Performance 2005-6 Performance DMETA 11 Section 2: Section DMICP 34 Business Continuity 35 Organisation 8 DMETA Programme Management Framework 35 Personnel 8 DMETA Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2006 36 Objectives 8 Agency Aim Agency 8 Section 4: Financial Accounts 41 About the Agency the About 7 Section 1: Section Statement of the Agency’s and Chief Executive’s responsibilities 42 Certificate and Report of the Comptroller Chief Executive’s Overview Executive’s Chief 5 and Auditor General to the House of Commons 48 ContentsAddenda: Page 70 Glossary 70 Contacts 72 Contents 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 2 / Plate A A Plate / 2 Sig: / 344572_HC1424_DMETA 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 2 / Plate B 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 2 / Plate B B Plate / 2 Sig: / 344572_HC1424_DMETA 344572_HC1424_DMETA / Sig: 3 / Plate A 5 Chief Executive’s Overview military patients’ requirements for rehabilitative care. rehabilitative for requirements patients’ military Chief Executive’s Overview Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) at Headley Court, which will better determine and direct and determine better will which Court, Headley at (DMRC) Centre Rehabilitation Evaluation and Coordination Centre (DMRECC), run from the Defence Medical Defence the from run (DMRECC), Centre Coordination and Evaluation In last year’s Annual Report I noted that the foundations Defence Medical Services Department (DMSD), the new Defence Medical Rehabilitation Medical Defence new the (DMSD), Department Services Medical Defence had been laid to successfully deliver against our that the process is sound. We have also set in place, with Director Healthcare at the at Healthcare Director with place, in set also have We sound. is process the that aspirations, and those of our customers, for the future. holistic, end-to-end review of that associated patient care pathway has demonstrated has pathway care patient associated that of review end-to-end holistic, This year, while we have continued to meet the increasing University Hospital Birmingham Foundation Trust (UHBFT) in Birmingham. A recent, A Birmingham. in (UHBFT) Trust Foundation Birmingham Hospital University demands of our primary role, (the provision of personnel from operational theatres to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) and the and (RCDM) Medicine Defence for Centre Royal the to theatres operational from to meet the Commanders’ in Chief requirements for An important aspect of DMETA is the reception and care of patients aeromedevaced patients of care and reception the is DMETA of aspect important An secondary healthcare personnel operational deployments and exercises). I am also pleased to report that the (MT2M) projects progressing satisfactorily. progressing projects (MT2M) Agency has built on these foundations to further enhance Military Withdrawal From Haslar (MWFH) and the Medical Training to the Midlands the to Training Medical the and (MWFH) Haslar From Withdrawal Military Surgeon Rear Admiral Raffaelli, our delivery in other areas. CE DMETA We also remain firmly on course to deliver against our estate rationalisation with both the both with rationalisation estate our against deliver to course on firmly remain also We and the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements of the single Services. single the of requirements (CPD) Development Professional Continuing the and DMETA deliberately stretched itself with this year’s revised Key Targets and has also had education and training commitments, including Phase 2 training for all medical personnel medical all for training 2 Phase including commitments, training and education a reduced reporting timeline of 9 months in order to meet Ministerial timelines for reporting In parallel with meeting the operational requirement, DMETA has continued to meet its meet to continued has DMETA requirement, operational the meeting with parallel In to Parliament. Key Target 2 (completion of mandatory individual military continuation training) was increased from 80% the previous year to a demanding 90% with the fully reported on next year. next on reported fully Agency achieving a highly creditable 89% against this in the 9 month reporting period. capture of relevant data. This issue has now been addressed and the Key Target will be will Target Key the and addressed been now has issue This data. relevant of capture Similarly, with Key Target 5 (Customer Focus) we achieved a remarkable 4% increase “unknown” due to problems with the data collection software which prevented adequate prevented which software collection data the with problems to due “unknown” against the Customer Confidence Index baseline score which fell just short of the 5% in meeting the high operational tempo. Unfortunately, this Key Target is reported as reported is Target Key this Unfortunately, tempo. operational high the meeting in improvement target for the year. I introduced Key Target 6 (ensuring