Joanna Bircher
GP CCG QI Clinical Lead QI Clinical lead Royal College of GPs
Lockside Medical Centre and Tameside and Glossop CCG
England - Greater Manchester
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Sarah Luty posted an update in the group Primary Care 2 years, 7 months ago
Hello to the primary care SIG,
By way of brief introduction – I am a GP in the West of Scotland and I work with NHS Education for Scotland in the Safety and Improvement team. I recently took a role with the HF/ RCGP “Quality Improvement Capacity and Knowledge (QUICK) project” We ran the first in a series of six webinars last night titled Get…Read more
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Elizabeth Beech posted an update in the group Primary Care 2 years, 9 months ago
Hello All
It looks like we will run one of the learning events @rammya-mathew mentioned in November to align with World Antibiotic Awareness Week and share 3 improvement experiences. @joannabircher has activity to share so thats 1 slot (Thanks Joanna) and I have identified an existing UTI diagnostic data nudging project that fills a second slot.…Read more-
@neilchadborn I recall you were doing improvement work in care homes – any antimicrobial stewardship/infection related share that might fit this event?
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Have you looked at the AMR groups. I have linked the SPS to our NEL area page but you can see at the bottom for links to other geographical areas https://www.sps.nhs.uk/networks/nel-amrsg/
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Hi @vicki-kong Yes I loop in with most AMR networks and co-designed that SPS page – which I think is a bit out of date as its clunky to use. But great you know it exists! There are new NHSEI Regional Leads for AMS landing in all 7 Regions and that will really help shared learning too. I will be contacting them re this also.
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There is some really interesting data https://www.sapg.scot/ on primary care antimicrobial prescribing during the pandemic and an interesting paper from January about antibiotic prescribing in end of life. (sorry not helpful with resource- but interested to learn more!)
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Hi @sarah-elizabeth-luty Yes there is. England and NI also published reports on antibiotic use in pandemic times and England published a pandemic dashboard open data https://www.prescqipp.info/our-resources/webkits/antimicrobial-stewardship/ams-visual-analytics-to-support-nhs-antimicrobial-stewardship-activity-during-covid-19-pandemic/
The EoL…Read more
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Hi @rammya-mathew I am due for surgery in October/November so can no longer be sure if I will be able to deliver the proposed World Antibiotic Awareness Week aligned shared learning discussed above. I am proposing defer to 2022 – shame to miss WAAW but …
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Thanks Elizabeth. That is perfectly fine, it’s good to be thinking about antimicrobial stewardship all year round – so might work well to have a follow-on event in the New Year! Do get in touch when you are recovered. Wishing you all the best.
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Elizabeth Beech posted a new activity comment 2 years, 9 months ago
Great idea @joannabircher and @rammya-mathew and I can easily locate improvement examples, especially as we have a national PHE AntibioticGuardian award and every November a World Antibiotic Awareness Week. This is 18-24th November 2021 and it would extra good to align any AMR related activity to that week. Very happy to support this too.
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Great @elizabethbeech – I’ll direct message you to try and set this up.
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Rammya Mathew posted a new activity comment 2 years, 9 months ago
Thanks @joannabircher – both sound great. I’m curious about nudge theory too, and how it might be applied in the context of supporting patients to self care or choose the most appropriate service for themselves.
A showcase of work on antimicrobial resistance sounds like a good bet too. @elizabethbeech – would you be able to identify people/…Read more
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Rammya Mathew posted an update in the group Primary Care 3 years, 3 months ago
Happy New Year everyone – just a brief reminder about our upcoming ‘lunch and learn’ event. @joannabircher will be hosting a webinar next Tuesday 12th Jan, 1-2pm, sharing the work she has done in her practice on managing capacity and demand, which also helped maintain patient continuity and allowed her team to leave on time most days. Is it really…Read more
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Rammya Mathew posted a new activity comment 4 years, 1 month ago
Hi All, Here are the doodle poll details for everyone who expressed an interest in meeting to help shape Q primary care. @rankine @camillegajria @johurd @anne-marie-eliades @sameenahassan @joannabircher @lisajamieson. Would be great to have you all involved, and if anyone else is keen, please do complete the poll – more the…Read more
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Rammya Mathew posted a new activity comment 4 years, 2 months ago
Thank you to everyone who has responded to this. Glad there are quite a few of us who are keen to build the primary care offer. I will touch base with Bryan Jones (Improvement Fellow at HF) to try and secure some potential meeting space + look into whether we can set up teleconferencing for those who may not be able to make it in person. @rankine…Read more
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Hi All, Here are the doodle poll details for everyone who expressed an interest in meeting to help shape Q primary care. @rankine @camillegajria @johurd @anne-marie-eliades @sameenahassan @joannabircher @lisajamieson. Would be great to have you all involved, and if anyone else is keen, please do complete the poll – more the…Read more
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I could ink you in to Susi Caesar who leads on Appraisal and revalidation for RCGP if that might help?