News & Updates
Learning from Covid-19: How Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service began a Quality Improvement project about reducing inequalities
17 March 2021
By Catherine Heaney, Improvement Advisor 3-minute read This story explains how Bedfordshire Wellbeing Service, known as BWS, came to develop their project on reducing inequalities, how they identified these and the next steps to tackling them. The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated potential inequalities for many, for example older adults with less confidence in digital environments, those who suffer from domestic abuse or perinatal service users for whom physical access to services… Read More
Improving the Health of Homeless Populations in Tower Hamlets – A Triple Aim Project
16 November 2020
co-written by Ché Rosebert, project lead, Louise Noronha and three people with lived experience including Gary Ash “You have to do something to help the homeless” service users told the Tower Hamlets team in 2018, when they held a listening event for service users. Homeless people have a shockingly low life expectancy in the… Read More
ELFT’s virtual Quality Improvement (QI) Collaborative with London Healthy Partnership (HLP) Continues Efforts To Reduce HIV Infections in London by 2030
2 September 2020
By Marco Aurelio, Improvement Advisor In the latest of our series of updates around ELFT’s support of a QI Collaborative, hear about how some of the organisations involved are getting on with their projects Since the beginning of 2020, twelve organisations have come together five times, as part of a Quality Improvement Collaborative. Two of these sessions were held face-to-face, and three virtually, as a result of COVID-19. The most recent events were held on 1 July and 14 August respectively. The aim of these sessions was to understand how the QI projects were progressing; to share learning; and for the organisations… Read More
Congratulations to the latest Improvement Leaders!
4 March 2020
On Tuesday 3rd March the ninth Wave of the Improvement Leaders’ Programme (ILP, formally ISIA) and third Cohort of Enjoying Work came to a close with a graduation and celebration event. Since September 2019 around 140 staff, service users and carers have participated in 8 workshops designed to equip them with the tools and knowledge… Read More
Working to improve the quality of life for people with serious mental illness in Hackney
26 February 2020
The City and Hackney initial Triple Aim project looks at improving the quality of life for people who experience serious mental Illness (SMI) in City and Hackney. The triple aim team consists of staff, service users, and community partners to help identify core needs for the serious mental illness (SMI) population, and ways to support… Read More
Stopping the monster days
26 February 2020
We recently heard about the progress of one of our early triple aim projects that we supported across Tower Hamlets Together, bringing together a range of stakeholders and partners and supporting three projects. Tower Hamlets Together is a group of health and social care organisations working closer together to improve the health and wellbeing of… Read More
Triple Aim – making it manageable
17 October 2019
Reflections from the second Triple Aim support session at ILP Conversation and reflection at the second Triple Aim learning session in the Improvement Leaders’ Programme (ILP) focused on how to get on top of your strategy and make the work feel manageable. All QI work can be tough in this respect, but Triple Aim work… Read More
Building connections and partnerships in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
22 July 2019
Jamie Stafford, Improvement Advisor and Fiona Stockley, Business and Performance manager discuss their project for a population of adolescents at risk of self-harming. One of the features of the triple aim work that CAMHS are most proud of so far has been engaging with schools and other local stakeholders and building trusting relationships. So… Read More
Directorate updates – Triple Aim
19 July 2019
This month we caught up with project teams across the directorates to check in with all the work they’re doing on Triple Aim projects City and Hackney The City and Hackney Triple Aim team have analysed their three part data review (6 service user and staff interviews, one neighbourhood focus group, neighbourhood case studies, and… Read More
Tower Hamlets and Corporate services: a Triple Aim update
24 April 2019
Triple Aim work is picking up pace in several directorates across East London NHS Foundation Trust. Here are the latest updates from Tower Hamlets and Corporate services. Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets as a directorate have chosen to use the Triple Aim framework to improve the quality of life of those who are homeless. With… Read More
Triple Aim work in Newham
24 April 2019
The team in Newham have been busy getting underway with their Triple Aim work looking at improving the lives of those who live in Newham. Here are some thoughts from Ed Lander, Newham Crisis Pathway Project Lead . Where are we focusing our efforts? Newham’s Triple Aim work is focusing upon a population who… Read More
Three Part Data Review: Learning and Disabilities service in Bedfordshire & Luton
23 April 2019
One of the key steps in using the triple aim approach to improving quality of life for those we serve is a good understanding of assets and needs within the specific population you are working with. The three part data review is the simple, systematic way to start learning about assets and needs. This involves the following… 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
Improving population health: What is ELFT doing about it?
29 November 2018
This video is part of our November 2018 newsletter, available here. Our new mission at East London NHS Foundation Trust is to improve the quality of life for all we serve, with a new focus on population health. But what does this mean? Why are we doing this? And how will we get started? Here’s… Read More
Triple Aim: Working to improve the health of populations
28 November 2018
Directorates at East London NHS Foundation Trust have already started looking into defining the populations they will be working with. Find out more about projects in Newham Adult Mental Health, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) and hild and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Words by Gill Williams (Borough Director in Newham), Sarah Wilson (Specialist Services Director), Graeme… Read More
ELFT and The Institute for Healthcare Improvement working together on the Triple Aim
20 June 2018
In June 2018, Dr Trissa Torres and Catherine Craig from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) visited the Trust to help us further develop our Triple Aim work. Trissa and Catherine have extensive experience in supporting healthcare organisations and systems to work towards the triple aim of improving population health outcomes, experience of care and… Read More
ELFT’s approach to improving the quality of life for those we serve
20 June 2018
In this blog, Improvement Advisor Marco Aurelio explains the Population Health approach and describes which projects are currently under way at ELFT. ELFT’s new vision is to improve the population of all we serve. This places us with a much broader remit within our local community and we need to think about how we deliberately… Read More
Working Together on the Triple Aim
25 April 2018
At the 2018 Quality Conference we unveiled our illustration on the Triple Aim at ELFT. Working on the Triple Aim is a key part of the Trust’s new strategy to improve the quality of life for all we serve. The ideas for this illustration were inspired by staff, service users and carers at a half day workshop… Read More
Triple Aim: Improving the health of our local populations
18 October 2017
During the IHI visit last week, Derek Feeley shared IHI’s learning from many years of work in systems across the world, helping improving health, improving the experience of care and lowering the cost of care. There is a series of steps that has been found to be helpful in thinking about how to apply this… Read More
