Our 2016 Annual QI Conference was held on Tuesday 22 March. On the day we welcomed 350 people to our East London venue West Ham United, 100 people to the Rufus Centre in Bedfordshire and a few hundred more watching online via our live webstream of the event.

Thank you to our keynote speakers Jason Leitch and Michael West and all other presenters, if you missed anything they said on the day, or were not able to attend please see the videos, slides and photos below and find all QI project posters presented here.

Conference group photo

Find more photographs from the event in the gallery below

2016 QI Conference Agenda

(Please find videos from the conference available in related resourced below)

Welcome – Marie Gabriel, Trust Chair & Mary Elford, Vice Chair of East London NHS Foundation Trust

Overview on year 2 of QI in ELFT – Dr Amar Shah, Associate Medical Director/Consultant forensic psychiatrist & James Innes, Head of Quality Improvement at ELFT

Keynote Speaker – Sustaining Large Scale Change – Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director for Healthcare, Quality at the Scottish Government

Breakout Session

  • Physical Health as a priority area for ELFT NHS
  • Service User Experience of the Quality Improvement Programme at ELFT
  • Physical Activity Demonstration
  • Panel Discussion with Leaders from ELFT on leadership for improvement and service user & carer involvement in QI

Leadership Message – Dr Robert Dolan, Chief Executive of ELFT & Dr Kevin Cleary, Medical Director and Director for Quality and Performance at ELFT

Keynote Speaker– Leadership for Continually Improving and Compassionate Care – Professor  Michael West, Head of Thought Leadership at the Kings Fund, and Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at Lancaster University.

What’s coming next for ELFT QI? – Dr Amar Shah, Associate Medical Director/Consultant forensic psychiatrist & James Innes, Head of Quality Improvement at ELFT

QI Song Premier – Stephen Sandford, Lead for Arts Therapies introduced ‘We’re Quality Improving’ the QI rap written, performed and produced by ELFT

And finally….its a rap!

We closed the conference with the launch of ‘We’re Quality Improving’, a QI themed rap, written, performed and produced by ELFT staff. Check it out