The Pharmacist led Heart Failure clinic was a project undertaken in Barking & Dagenham for 6 months, by Wajid Qureshi and team. Faced with increasing workload, workforce, and capacity pressures, the project aimed to reduce the time required to titrate patients’ medications to the maximum tolerated dose. The key innovation was the introduction of a Senior Pharmacist to conduct dose titration clinics on behalf of NELFT. 

The Quality Improvement (QI) team is thrilled to announce that Chrisse Francis and Clare Linger, our Senior Improvement Advisors, have successfully graduated from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Improvement Advisor (IA) programme . Read about their journey here.

Today is World Mental Health Day and this year's theme is focused on fostering positive mental health at work. Hear from our More Good Days At Work collaborative team, who shares how their participation has resulted in changes that improve their days at work.

It was a day of celebration for all who participated in our NELFT Quality Improvement (QI) Awards 2024. This annual event showcases our commitment as a Trust to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and not only doing our jobs, but trying to improve them.

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.