News & Updates
Day 1 – ILP Wave 10
14 May 2021
Day 1 Participants Guide for Day 1 of the Improvement Leaders’ Programme We mentioned using the fishbone diagram to help you and your teams to ‘understand the problem’. You can find more about this specific resource here. Click here for access to the Jamboard we collaborated on to create our ‘Fishbone Diagram’
Quality Assurance Team – Joy At Work
19 March 2021
Learn more about this Enjoying work project by the team on improving the joy experienced at work for members of the Quality Assurance team. The team took part in Cohort 3 of the ELFT Enjoying Work learning system that ran from September 2019 to March 2020 Click the image to open the poster. To learn… Read More
PDSA Template
9 March 2021
Use this template to help you plan and activate your plan, do, study, act cycles effectively.
Tufte’s Design Principles
24 February 2021
In this short video, find out how to improve the visual design of your charts to make them simple but detailed, enabling people to understand them more quickly. All using Tufte’s design principles.
Backlog Recovery Plan Template
15 February 2021
This Backlog Recovery Plan Template can be used to help you identify performance and backlog issues in your service and develop a robust plan to counter issues, by looking at demand and capacity – and calculating the trajectory for recovery based on this. Completing this template will aid you to see the issue… Read More
Putting improvement in everyone’s hands: opening up healthcare improvement by simplifying, supporting and refocusing on core purpose
9 February 2021
Quality at East London NHS Foundation Trust
19 January 2021
This video explains how we define quality at East London NHS Foundation Trust and how we use quality improvement and quality assurance to help us.
Welcome to East London Foundation Trust
15 January 2021
This video explains what quality improvement and assurance are at East London Foundation Trust and how you can prepare to join us as a new starter. Make sure you register to attend Pocket QI training, you can do this here.
Improving smoking cessation in first episode psychosis: a quality improvement project by the City & Hackney Early and Quick Intervention Psychosis (EQUIP)
11 December 2020
Smoking tobacco is a major public health issue and a significant cause of increased mortality. People with a first episode of psychosis are more likely to smoke and the subgroup that goes on to have schizophrenia will have a significantly reduced life expectancy to the general population. The City & Hackney Early and Quick Intervention… Read More
Quality improvement at East London NHS Foundation Trust: the pathway to embedding lasting change
4 December 2020
This piece reflects on the Trust’s transformation and its approach. It provides many examples and discusses several of the associated challenges in building and sustaining QI momentum. It is the result of a range of perspectives from staff involved in planning and building large-scale QI capability. It contextualises QI’s current status in UK mental healthcare…. Read More
An Interview with Improvement Coaches
26 November 2020
Cohort 6 of the Improvement Coaching Programme (ICP) are well on their way to becoming fully qualified coaches. Watch this video to hear why coaching is fundamental to help improving our services and what you should do if you have an improvement idea.
Enjoying Work Cohort 4 Learning Set 3
24 November 2020
Here are some useful resources: Please click on the titles below to reveal more… Learning Sesson Summary Slides