NELFT Quality Improvement Services Projects, Reports, Publications
Projects
Mental Health
Dietetics
Community Paediatric Therapies
Staff Engagement
Speach and Language Therapy
Title:
To improve the efficiency of the voice banking process with people with Motor Neuron Disease
Project Lead:
Donna Merrick, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team
Rationale:
MND is a neurological disease which can lead to loss of speech. We can support people to bank their existing voice which can then be used in a communication aid. But as MND is rapidly progressive, we need to do this quickly and efficiently. We currently loan equipment from an external charity which is time consuming.
Aim:
To reduce the time it takes for patients with Motor Neuron Disease (MND) to complete the voice banking process by 25% by March 2023.
Publications
BMJ Quality Improvement report
Improving access to Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP): the 2-week wait for cancer comes to psychosis (co-written by Dr Peter Carter, Early Intervention in Psychosis service, NELFT)
Read the full report here
Valued care in mental health: Improving for excellence
A national model to support continuous improvement of services, drawing on the experience and skill in the mental health sector. Read the full report here. You can also read our case study on page 83.
Clinical Audit Reports
Clinical Audit forms, documents and report templates
Once you have decided on your topic you should register your audit project using the latest version of the Clinical audit proposal form with the Trust Audit Facilitators. This will need to be agreed with the Audit Supervisor prior to sending the form to the team. Please see the guidance for help in completing your proposal.
Further information and relevant documents can be found below:
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BASELINE Clinical Audit Report Template.(not national audit)
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RE-AUDIT Clinical Audit Report Template (not national audits)
Approved NELFT Annual Clinical Audit Programmes 2016-2020
Clinical Audit Shared Learning
Learning from Clinical Audit
Completed Clinical Audit Summaries
Completed Clinical Audits - Posters
NELFT participation in National Audits
The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (NCISH)
2017
2016
Early Intervention in Psychosis
National Audit of Schizophrenia (NAS)
Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health - UK (POMH-UK)
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NELFT POMH-UK Lead: Dr Elizabeth Francis (email: elizabeth.francis@nelft.nhs.uk)