By Carlos Santos, Improvement Advisor, Bedfordshire Directorate
Bedfordshire Community Health Services (BCHS) are inviting their wider community to be deeply involved in their Quality Improvement work around COVID-19. As a result, the directorate started testing a great pool of change ideas.
What matters to Staff
It all started when BCHS decided to focus all their energy and enthusiasm for Quality Improvement towards their COVID-19 strategy. The following driver diagram was built in partnership with staff across the Directorate, reflecting what matters to the staff involved in the COVID-19 work.
What matters to Service Users
In order to understand what matters to our service users, a survey was submitted to patients and their carers and friends, and here are the main themes across the responses:
What is next
As a next step, a series of co-production meetups via WebEx are due to take place. These aim to bring together service users, carers and friends’ voices, leading the way for co-creation and collaboration in Quality Improvement.
The initial meeting will occur on the 1st May – watch this space for other exciting news.