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Improvement Leaders’ Programme – Wave 15

Wave 15 of ELFT’s Improvement Leaders’ Programme is a year long programme that starts with participants forming teams, choosing their most urgent issue to tackle, and starting to design their projects. The in person workshop days support participants to learn and apply the QI method and tools to solving this issue by April 2026. Teams will be supported to understand their problem, develop a theory, test changes to make improvements, use data to measure impact over time, and implement changes into business as usual. The course also introduces many other concepts and tools that teams can use throughout the project’s life cycle.

Programme Design

Within 3 to 4 months of beginning the programme you will have formed the team, identified an issue to work on, and started to design your project with support from Improvement Advisors. You must be available to join all five in person workshops from November 2025 to April 2026. Our workshop dates will be:

  • Workshop Day 1: Tuesday 4 November 2025 – Venue 360, 20 Gipsy Lane, Luton, LU1 3JH
  • Workshop Day 2: Wednesday 3 December 2025 – Venue 360, 20 Gipsy Lane, Luton, LU1 3JH
  • Workshop Day 3: Tuesday 10 February 2026 – Venue 360, 20 Gipsy Lane, Luton, LU1 3JH
  • Workshop Day 4: Tuesday 24 March 2026 – Royal National Hotel, 38-51 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0DG
  • Workshop Day 5: Tuesday 28 April 2026 – Royal National Hotel, 38-51 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0DG

Information for applicants

Internal applicants

The programme runs from the point of application until April 2026. As part of your application:

  • Please ensure you have line management approval to attend all in person training days.
  • We suggest you join with 2 to 3 members of your project team for the best experience.
  • You have identified a project to work on, aligned to your directorate priorities.
  • We encourage all participants to have attended Pocket QI so that you have a foundational knowledge of QI.
  • Attend your local QI forum to understand what improvement projects are underway in your directorate.

We welcome applications from service users and carers so if you are interested, please have an initial conversation with your local People Participation Lead about what the role entails.

Within two weeks of your application, you should expect to hear from your local improvement advisor to help you start work on your project.

External applicants

As part of your application:

  • Please ensure you have line management approval to attend all in person training days.
  • You have identified a project to work on aligned to your organisation’s priorities.
  • We suggest you join with 2 to 3 members of your project team for the best experience.

There is a fee for external applicants and your space on the course is subject to payment being received. To find out more information, please sign up using the external participant registration form below.

Registration

Thank you for your interest in ELFT’s Improvement Leaders’ Programme. Due to overwhelming demand, applications have now closed for 2025/26.

If you have any queries about this cohort or next year’s training programmes please contact the QI Department at elt-tr.qi@nhs.net.

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