Q Exchange ideas

• Midwifery Advocacy Peer Support (MaPs)

  An innovative project attempting to optimise the wellbeing of midwives, by developing and delivering a package of ‘psychological first aid’ and peer support through Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMAs).

• Patient Safety at your Fingertips: An Innovative Mobile Application

  We are developing a mobile phone application for patient/relative use. It will ask up to 10 questions relating to patient safety. Key concerns will be escalated to appropriate staffmembers to address.

• Systems Improvement Practitioner programme

  The national co-design of a free-to-use 'Systems Improvement Practitioner Programme' to support systems and organisations to build QI and systems thinking capability in order to tackle complex system issues.

• Virtual teaching resources on patient safety, human factors and leadership

  There are no publicly-available teaching resources on patient safety, risk, human factors that reflect healthcare in 2020. We want to develop a free teaching package for NHS staff/students to address this

Blog posts

• Co-designing the Systems Quality Improvement Practitioner Programme

  Q member Sid Beech shares his experience of kickstarting the newly funded Q Exchange project, Systems QI Practitioner Programme, with a co-design session to agree the scope, audience and draft topic outline for the programme.

• Quality Coach Development Programme launches its first pilot

  Q community member, Sid Beech discusses the importance of improvement coaches and invites you to get involved in the next stage of the Q Exchange project: 'The Quality Coach Development Programme'.

• My Improvement Journey: Sid Beech

  Sid Beech, Q member and QI Training Lead, offers insight into his career progression in improvement and how he plans to develop the next generation of improvers in the new Coaching Improvement SIG.

• The Quality Coach Development Programme: where we are so far?

  Q community member, Sid Beech, discusses the importance of improvement support and the latest updates on the Q Exchange 2019 project 'The Quality Coach Development Programme'.

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