Special Interest Group
Quality Management in Healthcare
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Thomas John Rose posted an update 4 days, 23 hours ago
The second webinar on quality management is today at 12pm. Sign up if you are interested and free. Please don’t forget to sign up for part 2: https://q.health.org.uk/event/what-is-quality-part-two/
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Joriam Ramos posted an update 1 week, 4 days ago
Hey folks, those were the questions asked during this afternoon’s Webinar. As promised, @thomasjohnrose will answer them via text below.
Please don’t forget to sign up for part 2: https://q.health.org.uk/event/what-is-quality-part-two/
Tanya Stacey asked:
Quality Improvement is one aspect of Quality Management?Yvonne Morgan (@yvonnemorgan)…Read more
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Tanya Stacey asked:
Quality Improvement is one aspect of Quality Management?
Answer – Quality Improvement as defined the Health Foundation’s guide ‘Quality improvement made simple’ (April 2021 version) is a step in the right direction of Quality Management.
Yvonne Morgan (@yvonnemorgan) asked:
In looking at service specifications, are all of the d…Read more
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Matthew Mezey posted an update 1 week, 4 days ago
** Starting in 10 minutes ** This group’s first Zoom: ‘What is Quality?’
Hope to see you soon.
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Thomas John Rose posted an update 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Would you like to re-focus your QI activity to achieve better results in CQC Inspections and Audits?
Instead of continually trying to improve quality would you rather manage quality so that you can achieve the standards already established by NICE and other bodies?
Do you know the difference between Juran’s little Q and big Q?
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Emma Stinton posted an update 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Hi,
Lucinda Hollinshead from CLCH and I have been discussing how useful it would be to have a network for people who are working to implement or trying to plan a Quality Management System in their organisation. Something along the lines of a regular meeting plus a space where we can give each other support, share queries and progress. Does…Read more
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Emma, This is a great idea. I would be happy to help organise regular Teams meetings for such a group and facilitate discussion. I have organised two webinars on quality management, details on a previous post. We could also do an in person meeting if enough people are interested. It is really important to understand the basic principles when…Read more
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Hi Emma and Thomas, I would be interested in joining a regular catch up. Many thanks Jonty.
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Excellent news, certainly interested in joining
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Lovely to see this action here!
Whenever you folks figure out a good rhythm — or even if you just wanna have a first call just to talk about it and make some first decisions, let me know (joriam@enspiral.com) and I’ll help you set it up 🙂 @emmastinton @thomasjohnrose @jonty-yazbek @simondallas
(also, you folks should really join the workshop T…Read more
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all signed up for workshop
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Hi Emma,
I work in Pathology where we are accredited to ISO 15189:2012 which includes requirement for a robust Quality Management System, so happy to also help with ideas, but obviously ours is very lab-heavy.
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Emma
Hi it Mary, please count me in. I’m attempting to develop QMS at “place” wi so would find this super helpful to share ideas and practical ways to implement and further understand that”good” look like.
Bw Mary
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Hi Emma,
I would be interested in joining the conversation. I have been involved in the design and build of a QMS and preparations for implementing ISO 9001:2015 in previous work on accreditation for hospitals. So looking forward to what ideas can be exchanged with those who have implemented a QMS and those planning to do this. -
It’s great to see that there’s interest in sharing progress and supporting each other. It sounds like a good first step would be to meet and work out the best way to facilitate this. I’ll set something up for the week of 15th June and post the MS Teams link to join the meeting here (unless anyone can think of a better way for me to invite you…Read more
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Hi,
Booked for 10-11am on 15th June. Here’s the meeting link (apologies this is the only way it allowed me to paste it!) I’ll invite those of you who I know and have expressed an interest directly. Please let me know your e mail address if you’d prefer an invite to be sent (I’m at emma.stinton@nhs.net). Please also feel free to pass the invite on…Read more
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Emma Stinton joined 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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About this group
There is now a growing interest in Quality Management in healthcare. This Special Interest Group will help those interested in learning about or implementing a Quality Management System (QMS).
In Quality Management there is a great deal of emphasis on:
- Documenting how work gets done (the steps that comprise the process).
- Examining the flow of work between people or workstations.
- Giving people the knowledge and methods they need to constantly improve that work.
There are a lot of different process improvement methods but almost all of them serve one of two purposes:
- To eliminate variation in quality and speed (a major source of error).
- To improve process flow and speed.
The majority of process improvement work should fall into one of those two categories.
This SIG is convened by Tom Rose.
