Graduation and Awards 7th December 2018

The award ceremony marked the end of the 7 month, Silver – Quality Improvement in Action Programme for 21 members of staff who have been working on 15 different improvement projects across the Trust. This event gave each team the opportunity to share their work and their learnings and for the Trust to recognise and celebrate their achievements.

Best Quality Improvement:

Each team gave a 5 minute poster presentation providing a summary of their improvement work. A judging panel assessed the projects and a prize for ‘Best Quality Improvement’ has been be awarded to:

Learning from deaths: Using the structured judgement review (SJR) methodology by Nicky Holton

Best Quality Improvement Poster:

Posters representing each improvement initiative have been displayed for the audience to view and vote for in the ‘Best QI Poster’ category. The audience have voted for the best poster:

MIDWIVES MATTER - Developing a positive staff culture using Restorative Clinical Supervision by Jo Daubeney, Michelle Sterry, Kate Adamson & Trine Jorgenson

At the conclusion of the programme participants have also graduated as Silver – Quality Improvement Practitioners, recognised by the presentation of a Silver QI pin badge and a certificate.

In addition to providing an opportunity to share the learning from improvements that are under way, these events form an integral part of the Academy objective to create an ‘Improvement Movement’ across the Trust, with the ultimate ambition of creating a culture of continuous improvement.

List of Quality Improvement Initiatives

• Implementation of Day Case Management of Hyperemesis Gravidarum in Gynaecology by Jothi Doraiswamy, Sarah Channing
• An Enteral Tube Feeding Passport - Improving communication between hospital and home by Rebecca Draper
• Development of an online patient information enquiry service for digitally literate patients by Lisa Riddington
• Acute Care Response Team, Who, When Where, Why? Improving Communication to service users of Acute Care Response Team (ACRT) scope of practice by Isolde Newberry
• Improving the management of decompensated liver cirrhosis in the first 24 hours of admission by Giovanna Sheiybani
• Perineal Trauma Clinic by Claire Winchester
• Changing Staff Perception of the Manual Handling Team’s Remit by Caroline Agg
• MIDWIVES MATTER - Developing a positive staff culture using Restorative Clinical Supervision by Jo Daubeney, Michelle Sterry, Kate Adamson & Trine Jorgenson
• Improving quality in ward-based advanced respiratory support by Charlie Sharp
• Learning from deaths: Using the structured judgement review (SJR) methodology by Nicky Holton
• Increasing support for Carers in a hospital setting by Louise de Lloyd
• The reduction of RTT for in house paediatric dento-alveolar patients to less than 18 weeks by Andrea Beech & Margaret Coyle
• Improving the safety and quality of patient transfer handover by Kate Bowstead & Jeanette Harvey
• The Implementation of adapted SAFER ward rounds within paediatrics to reduce waiting times for discharge by Joanne Harvey

Quality Improvement Awards and Graduation Programme

Quality Improvement Awards and Graduation Programme Dec 2018