This article by Jo Bates, published in the BDA Dietitians member's magazine, discusses the importance of confidence among diabetes practitioners in making a difference in patient care and cost reduction. She shares her personal experience in leading a quality improvement (QI) project that involved transitioning to multi-use syringes in the community, which resulted in significant cost savings and improved patient care.

The Kent and Medway Children and Young People’s Mental Health services conducted a Quality Improvement (QI) project aimed at optimising the utilisation of Routine Outcome Measures (ROMs), which has been implemented to increase compliance but also to build a qualitive foundation on which to make clinical and service-based decisions.

In June , some of our Quality Improvement Advisors attended the Health Improvement European Alliance Workshop, hosted by the IHI (Insitute of Healthcare Improvement) in Belgium. The two-day workshop emphasised the importance of learning together through healthcare and non- healthcare site visits ,discussion, networking and presentations. 

We are pleased to share the success of the recent Quality Improvement (QI) Learning & Sharing event, which took place at the Jane Atkinson Health and Wellbeing Centre last week.  

On the 20^{th of} March 2024 the Quality Improvement Service were privileged to host and celebrate the project work undertaken by our fabulous graduates who had just completed Cohort 16 of the QI Facilitators Programme...(click to read more about the projects completed).

The NELFT Quality Improvement Team have been working closely together with the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team on an innovative co-produced approach to explore where areas of improvement might be needed within the service, with the aim of creating a service that truly is patient led.

The QI team have facilitated many away day’s this year across NELFT and received feedback in how useful application of QI methodology has been. Team feedback highlights tangible benefits, including clear structure, differentiation between controllable issues and broader input, interactive tools, practical examples, and the establishment of a safe space for communication. 

Madiha Shaikh, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in Critical Care Psychology at King George & Queens Hospitals, delivered a project as part of the QI Facilitator Cohort 14 on non-pharmacological methods to prevent and manage delirium.

Katie Lidington, who serves as the Service User Engagement Lead at Havering Integrated Children's Services, has proactively undertaken the recruitment and active involvement of six young people in a recent Quality Improvement (QI) project. The aim of this project is to achieve a 25% increase in discharges from Havering Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) by June 2024.  

The QI team supported the Waltham Forest Podiatry Team at Hainault Health Centre with Bespoke Foundation Training, tailoring it to their team issue.