Tag: model for Improvement
3minuteQI Video
3minuteQI – Quality Improvement in bitesized pieces – ‘On the go’ – via smart phone, tablet or laptop.
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Self improvement – a change within your reach!
Like all robust methods of learning to implement lasting change it takes a good amount of practice and some inevitable failures.
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A moment of reflection can lead to a smarter improvement aim
So, when I say ‘take a little time to reflect’ – I’m advising us all to give our problem some quality thought, do some simple diagnostics, and think about it from our end users’ perspective.
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Action on Audit: Injecting a few PDSAs to deliver service improvement
For decades the medical profession has worshipped at the altar of audit: embracing the method in...
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PDSA – Injecting a little improvement into Audit
For decades the medical profession has worshipped at the alter of audit: embracing the method in everything from large national confidential enquiries, increasingly complex extensions to NICE guidance and a key competency for all doctors in training. In the last decade even our NHS Masters have got in on the act – mandating nurses to complete weekly and monthly audits (think Safety Cross) to ‘maintain’ standards in everything from infection control to waiting times.
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Crisis in mental health: Can quality improvement help?
At the Quality Improvement Clinic we have been thinking about mental health
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Human Factors Exchange
In 2014 the Quality Improvement Clinic Ltd was commissioned to work on the ‘Safe and Compassionate care Underpinned by Human Factors’ project in partnership with Health Education East Midlands. The project brief was to develop a model for a “centre of excellence” to host human factors expertise for the enhancement of patient safety, innovation and improvement education for learners in the East Midlands.
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