News & Updates
Improving access and flow: Luton CAMHS story
26 February 2019
In our fifth story of the Improving access and flow within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services series, discover how the Luton CAMHS team found new ways to review referrals and achieved a 19% reduction from referral to second appointment. Luton and Bedford CAMHS also offered QI training to service users and now have a group of young people ready… Read More
First triple aim QI projects across the Trust
22 February 2019
In the early stages of the Triple Aim work at ELFT, we welcomed guidance from our strategic partners, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, in a visit in February 2019. Read more about how teams are progressing with this work in this blog by our Improvement Advisor Jen Taylor-Watt. Teams from across ELFT welcomed Trissa Torres… Read More
QI Essentials: Learning systems for improvement
22 February 2019
Achieving change in behaviour and culture in complex organisations requires intentional design. In this blog, Dr Amar Shah shares some learning on key components of the design of learning systems for improvement. The pursuit of continuous improvement helps us create a learning organisation, described by Peter Senge as “where people continually expand their… Read More
Crisis Resolution/Home Treatment teams in Bedford reflect on their Enjoying Work journey
19 February 2019
How do you start an Enjoying Work Quality Improvement project? How do keep team members engaged? How are ideas generated and tested? Learn more in this piece by Emma Myers, Assistant Psychologist and QI Project lead in the Bedford CRHT team. What issues did the project aim to tackle when you first started with this?… Read More
City & Hackney CAMHS: Access and Flow project
19 February 2019
Here’s the fourth story of the Improving access and flow within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services series. In the newsletter below, find out how the City & Hackney team changed the way they operate to improve the experience of young people in the crisis pathway. Click to read: CAMHS Access and Flow series… Read More
Newham Child and Family Consultation Service in: The Busy Bees
12 February 2019
Here’s the third story of the Improving access and flow within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services series. The Newham Emotional & Behavioural Team share their journey of reducing cancellation rates and other improvements as part of their QI project. The team also recently threw open their doors for a week-long CAMHS festival, reaching out into their community,… Read More
‘Mission Improvable’: an entirely factual and anonymous blog
6 February 2019
Here’s an honest and humorous account of the highs and lows of a QI project journey in the Tower Hamlets CAMHS triage pathway. This is the second story of the Improving access and flow within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services series. Click below to read: CAMHS Access and Flow series – access all… Read More
