News & Updates
QI at ELFT Wins at The BMJ Awards 2016
9 May 2016
A BMJ Award recognises and celebrates the inspirational work done by medical staff across medical teams in the UK. This was the 8th year of the Awards; with over 300 entries from around the UK to 16 categories covering both primary and secondary care. The QI programme at ELFT won the Education Category Award! Members… Read More
QI & The CQC
6 May 2016
With the Trust’s CQC inspections just around the corner, a good question to ask is how can your Quality Improvement work help? It’s important to start by recognising the fact that assurance (audit and CQC inspections) and Quality Improvement are different sides of the same coin. Neither can survive without each other. We set minimum… Read More
I believe we all have, at one moment or another, felt that urge to be rebellious at work…
6 May 2016
People Participation Lead, Zaffran Jami, attended the 2016 International Forum for Quality & Safety in Healthcare in Gothenburg, Sweden, hosted by the IHI and BMJ. Zaffran presented the work of the People Participation Lead’s work at ELFT on engaging and involving service users and carers in quality improvement projects across the Trust. We interviewed her on… Read More
What do your Service Users really think?
4 May 2016
We all know how important getting feedback on the impact of change ideas from our service users and their carers is! But getting this in a systematic and reliable way can sometimes be pretty difficult! Well, now there is a way for teams to add additional questions (2 maximum) to their patient feedback hardware (tablets… Read More
