Sarah Williamson
Assistant Director Performance, Innovation and Quality Improvement
Northern Health and Social Care Trust
IrelandNorthern Ireland
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Thomas John Rose posted an update in the group Quality Management in Healthcare 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Do you know the difference between Quality Assurance, Quality Planning, Quality Control and Quality Improvement?
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Matthew Mezey posted an update in the group Q Special Interest Groups/Communities of Practice 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Q Groups/SIGs leads meet-up *midday today*
If you’re not signed up for today’s meet-up of Q SIG leads yet, please get in touch with Maria: mariadorthea@gmail.com
It’s a great opportunity to share experiences, get help and ideas etc.
See you later.
Matthew
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Abigail Peck joined the group Complexity Approaches to support Quality Improvement 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Abigail Peck joined the group Quality Management in Healthcare 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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Joriam Ramos posted an update in the group Quality Management in Healthcare 2 weeks, 3 days ago
📌 If you’re interested in NHS Impact and you’re looking for a clear, direct way to engage with one of its 5 core principles, join us this Apr 25th (Thursday) as Dr Iain Smith guide us through his journey building improvement capability – and measuring its impact.
More specifically, he’ll be presenting how the Kirkpatrick model was used to eva…Read more
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Thomas John Rose posted an update in the group Quality Management in Healthcare 2 weeks, 4 days ago
New report from HSSIB says that ‘Retained surgical swabs are classed as Never Events. However, data shows that there has been 11-23 retained swab incidents per year since 2015.’ This is why the NHS needs to start managing quality. NO Quality Control and NO Quality Assurance and Quality2024 with all the wonderful presentations will not make any…Read more
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Angela Perrett joined the group Quality Management in Healthcare 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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Dawn Butler joined the group Complexity Approaches to support Quality Improvement 3 weeks, 2 days ago
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Yes to all of those.
Is that as defined by Juran or is it the NHS versions?
NHS (Pathology), but probably not far off Juran – Quality Control is the check that our systems work as expected (Internal Quality Control e.g. statistical control charts) and will produce the correct results. Quality Assurance is the evaluation of our results to check that they met our expectations (we use the term External Quality Assurance or…Read more
Thanks Lesley. Yes – not far off Juran. I’ll post outlining the differences when the remaining 217 SIG members have had a chance to respond to my post above. I’ve added a link so that members can see the standards/regulations that Pathology have to meet, not a easy task!…Read more