Q Exchange ideas

• Community Improvement Partnerships..

  This project will extend a successful NHS QI programme to include partners with whom we work in the community - in particular care homes & voluntary sector organisations, via training and project work

• Improving in Partnership with patients and communities, Side by Side

  To co-produce a patient/ service user QI programme (including training and a peer support network) : equipping those that use our services with the knowledge, skills and confidence to identify and co-deliver improvement projects, in partnership with our teams.

• Joining Demand & Capacity with QI: Empowering the Front Line

  Upskill community based teams to use data to fully understand waiting lists, demand and capacity; and then use Quality Improvement methods to identify and test different ways of working.

• Understand My World, Improve My Care: Young People as Educators

  Co-design of a training package for staff designed and delivered by young people using mental health services. A focus on understanding their ‘worlds’ will improve communication, care and outcomes.

Blog posts

• Side by Side – improving in partnership with patients and communities

  Last year, we were one of the recipients of the Q Exchange funding – we were funded to co-design a training module to support patients, families and communities get involved in QI, and work with our teams on projects.

• Wessex Q members try something new – our first Unconference

  Ideas, learning and successes of an unconference, held with the Q community in Wessex

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