News & Updates
Stopping work of lower value, where are we now?
1 September 2014
In May 2014 we invited every team to identify activities that provided little value to patients or staff and could be stopped. We’re now pleased to get back to you with some initial results from this work. It was really encouraging to see how many people took the time to think about this. But we… Read More
Wave 1 improvement training a big success, Wave 2 details announced
1 September 2014
Find out how Wave 1 improvement delegates are getting on, and further details on signing up for the Wave 2 training starting in December 2014.
Tool time!
1 September 2014
There are many other tools you can use in your Quality Improvement work, as such we’ve built an Improvement Tools section of the microsite to help you navigate these. You can also now install some specialist software, QI Charts on your computer which will help you to generate some of these charts and better understand your data.
Meet your Quality Improvement Team
1 September 2014
In August we were delighted to welcome 4 new members to the QI team. Tsana Rawson, Dr Juliette Brown and Dr Genevieve Holt joined as Quality Improvement Clinical Fellows and will be with us on secondment for 12 months, becoming experts in QI and supporting frontline QI projects across the Trust. Forid Alom also joined as… Read More
Improving Physical Health Monitoring Following Rapid Tranquillisation
1 September 2014
By Jennifer Melville, Deputy Chief Pharmacist The ward team on Bevan Ward in City and Hackney have been working extremely hard over the past 18 months! We have been aiming to improve the physical health monitoring of patients following administration of psychotropic PRN/RT. In November 2012, a trust wide audit showed only 50% of patients… Read More
