News & Updates
QI is Power to Staff!
30 November 2016
My name is Olusola, I work in Specialist Services at East London NHS Foundation Trust. This is my QI story… I have been through many organisational changes in my work career which has spanned over 26 years, so, I can safely say I have “been there, done that, and got the t-shirt”. I love looking… Read More
3 minutes with Kelly Gale
29 November 2016
Read time: 3 minutes Firstly, could you give us a brief summary of your role and what a typical day at work is for you? Business Transformation Manager – In a nutshell I help to re-design services that need to make changes – for reasons such as service improvement or re-structuring and then… Read More
PDSA of the month: Testing out how to collect your project data
22 November 2016
By Emma Binley, QI Lead for Newham & Children’s Services The Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health is currently running a QI project within the team who work on their Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU) ward. Their project is focusing on reducing the number of incidents of physical aggression. Since the project first began, data… Read More
From Quality Improvement to Quality Control
22 November 2016
By Auzewell Chitewe, Senior Quality Improvement Lead An inevitable question a Quality Improvement (QI) project team will ask themselves at some point is: “When can we say we have achieved our aim and close our project as ‘complete’?”. Some projects close without achieving their aim because the initial aim is no longer achievable due to… Read More
A day in the life of Dr Ben Braithwaite
9 November 2016
Read time: 3 minutes Could you give us a brief summary of your role and what a typical day at work is for you? As clinical director for Community Health Newham I lead on quality and governance for our adult community health services. This includes our district nursing and community therapy services, musculoskeletal physiotherapy,… Read More
