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The project aims to reduce unnecessary out-patient appointments for those who have received kidney transplants, by assessing patient reported and clinical need

Building a digital platform to share innovation and provide peer support as a national network of Shared Governance/shared decision making. Capturing frontline QI and supporting work across boundaries

An open digital platform produced in partnership with Hexitime to provide clear direction and promote collaboration on research and improvement initiatives across the local healthcare landscape.

We outline our project proposal to bring in-hospital expertise in delivering high-fidelity simulation education to our colleagues in the community.

The Suspicion of Sepsis (SOS) Insights dashboard uses a novel approach to solve the wicked problem of measuring sepsis outcomes. The project aims to test its effectiveness in QI and…

Using innovative communication, real patient experience and in-situ simulation to truly optimise the awareness of sepsis across primary and secondary care settings.

Nottinghamshire ICS shares resources to deliver QSIR training across partner organisations. This is generating shared projects. We want a community repository to capture/spread impact and learning

Using acne care as a model, we propose to develop materials (an app) for patients to gather information about their condition and can make shared decisions based on reliable, focussed…

System wide development of a common assessment and review process for initiating and continuing compliance aids to support adherence and safe medicine use through patient centred care.

We will support primary care networks to develop sustainable relationships with the people and communities they serve, improving learning capabilities through deliberate habits of shared sense-making.

Development of patient information leaflets for new, and existing patients, to explain why and how services will be delivered. In the process identifying and addressing patient concerns.

Working with the ICP as an anchor institution, we will engage communities and healthcare staff in improving air quality, supporting them to co-create projects that benefit health and the environment.

To create a learning organisation and system across Buckinghamshire by designing ways of addressing the barriers to learning.

We will be working with a faculty of experts from across the health and social care sector to design and deliver a breakthrough collaborative designed to give to, and get…

Strengthen new outpatient care models by building patient capability in how they self-manage their condition through use of modern immersive technologies to improve information accessibility & impact

We propose to use a non-medical prescriber with a specialist interest in falls and medicines to take referrals and conduct a virtual review of patient’s medicines and plan for bone…

This project will use Experience Based Co-design to develop and evaluate alternatives to traditional, physician led, hospital scheduled consultations as part of a wider Integrated Respiratory Pathway

An intervention to improve communication between nurses and intubated patients on intensive care ahd high dependency units.

CareRadar enables users to access a wide range of senior care and support services from across the community, matched with their bespoke needs, budget and urgency, more efficiently than before.

(1) Develop well curated portfolio of interventions (NHS & beyond) which strengthen the connection between primary & secondary care, enabling care out of hospital. (2) Design programme for spread.

A learning network to focus on delivering better health and care for the local population, building relationships of trust between organisations which enables improvement to thrive

We propose a collaborative between health and social care, service users and commissioners to boost our joy at work using theatre & focusing on the relationships between colleagues and service…

Redesign of an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) outpatient pathway, facilitating access using patient held records (PHR) using appropriate analytical techniques to evaluate impact and share learning.

Launch a more patient-centered diagnostic and treatment pathway for patients with pleural disease, to reduce hospital visits and bed-days, provide support, improve experiences and free up clinic slots

We want to use Quality Improvement to support the adoption of innovation; using design methods to test multiple innovations within a pathway & multiple QI methods to affect change &…

To provide a digital platform to support patients following completion of pulmonary rehabilitation from our organisation to maintain independent physical activity and exercise levels

IA patients frequently report significant pain and fatigue in spite of good disease control.Our project aims to improve their ability to manage these symptoms through non-pharmacological interventions

This work aims to improve the QI capability of MSOs working within the NE and Cumbria NHS in order to collaboratively tackle some of our medication safety concerns together.

Working across boundaries has enabled our improvement team to increase GP participation in child protection in one practice - we would like to spread this work across NI and further…

Primary care advanced clinical practitioners (ACPs) visit care home residents across England, however little is known about how they work. We aim to explore the scope and impact of this…

Deployment of the application of Gamification designs & concepts to human factor learning and skills in health & social care-making learning more engaging/entertaining &increasing learner motivation

To produce a clinical system-based quality improvement resource that will drive improvements in the diagnosis and management of AF in primary care

OUH QI Hub is a growing,multiprofessional community aiming to develop QI capability;continuous, sustained patient-centred improvement by providing shared learning,collaboration and mentorship for all.

To determine how best to support services to successfully adopt video clinics by maximal utilisation of our integrated digital systems to deliver a high quality service with more patient choice.

Creating a single point of access for all Digestive Diseases referrals, working with primary care and patients to develop a robust model that enables our patients to quickly get the…

Remote monitoring of gestational diabetes patients whereby blood glucose levels and communication occur remotely via a mobile app / website reducing the need for traditional face to face follow-ups.

Great gains are to be had if whole systems adopt SPC. This project will develop practical toolkits designed to help whole systems increase improvement capability to solve their greatest challenges

We will work with GP Practices to use data to identify opportunities for improving care for people being discharged from hospital with AKI to reduce the likelihood of them returning…

To share and spread a unique ‘gamification’ learning experience - Game of Flow - in regard to non-elective patient pathways through an acute NHS hospital, from admission to discharge.

We plan to use safety culture cards with all our teams across acute, community and social care to provide a common language and basis to build quality improvement projects across…

The public health management of pregnant women with BMI≥30kg/m² is predominantly non-compliant due to lack of training and appropriate tools for midwives.

Using consultation software we would provide a virtual face-to-face resolution for our patients and clinicians within 24 hours of raising a concern. A facilitator would organise the virtual meetings.

We aim to create an evidence based, deep learning algorithm to characterise thyroid nodules as benign or malignant based on ultrasound appearances and reduce the number of biopsies required.

Our mission is for everyone working in health and social care to be able to easily organise and participate in a work shadowing exchange as part of their annual professional…

Improvement in ambulance services is accelerating. Our project will engage & encourage frontline involvement in Ambulance Q & improvement; and spread cross-organisational learning through technology.

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…

To establish a UK healthcare Community of Practice (CoP) for HF & QI and a resource repository for safety and quality leaders to apply HF 'brilliant basics' and link with…

There are several 'hard to reach' staff groups that haven’t actively engaged/led in QI within the organisation. We would like to design a bespoke programme aimed at support staff from…

Our digital app uses a combination of behavioural science and AI to support self-management by colorectal cancer patients, improving outcomes and reducing the burden on outpatient services.

Swimming pools will be used as a setting for outpatient attendances for people with long term radiotherapy effects of breast cancer. It will reduce multiple appointments and improve self-management.

To share the insights and improvements individual provider trusts have made since the National Learning from Deaths programme was launched utilising a multimedia approach.

Starting from a position that quality and value are only ever viewed through the lens of the customer we will use participatory co-design to redesign our outpatient offer to future-proof…

Sharing and spreading quality systems with physiology services across the country to attain IQIPS accreditation and continually improve.

remote monitor sleep assessment by GP surgeries using a piece of equipment (oximeter) and send the results to the hospital for nurse led virtual triage and telephone follow up (now…

Linking GPs, Pharmacists, Trust Colleagues, Community and Voluntary and Patients in a town based Community of Practice connected to our healthcare system by linking to our Integrated Care Partnership

We want to co-design with people living with dementia the next stage of an already established Occupational Therapy early intervention in order to enable better outcomes.

Taking a creative approach to patient and public engagement in order to transform our outpatient departments

Connecting you with the evidence to make you better improvers.

Three Trusts have formed a hospital group. Each has a different approach to QI. We plan to bring all these together in a unified, easily accessible programme to support clinical…

Create a neural network of QI for Primary Care, which facilitates the sharing of methods, successes and learning, supporting QI in Primary Care services across 3 local authorities and 1…

The Teledermatology Service will provide GP's with a direct route of access to Consultant Dermatologists to aid with patient assessment and treatment pathway.

To tackle long waits and poor access to the right advice and treatment for headache patients we want to work across the SW London to bust traditional silos and embed…

Cross-boundary multidisciplinary approach to codesign with cancer patients an effective way to help member departments to collect,understand,respond,interpret & use electronic patient reported dataPRD

Developing an online resource for primary care to support evidence informed improvements to organisation of care in integrated diabetes service

To expand the expertise and skills of First Contact Practitioners and Pharmacists, to build capacity within primary care to support people living with Osteoarthritis to self-manage their condition.

Bringing providers and commissioners of healthcare in Enfield & Haringey together to implement new models of outpatient care.

To use a QI collaborative approach to the co-design of a cross-boundary toolkit, for safe, effective, and efficient, discharge of patients, encompassing the viewpoint of all stakeholders.

Broadening access to continuous improvement tools and techniques for staff in acute settings, by taking training to ward level and delivering one hour 'Kaizen bursts' for small groups of staff.

To bring QI leaders together to design and deliver an approach to equip people who work in health and care in the North West Surrey system, with the skills and…

The Improvement Network will encourage innovation, share learning, experience and expertise through building a community of improvers - a force for positive change in the Trust and wider system.

Patient and staff co-designing to improve the quality of conversations about preferences for future emergency treatments. Aim is to co-produce educational events and materials for staff and the public

Bringing patients and staff together through Quality Improvement and OD training to create the psychological safety required for true co-production.

Taking a MDT approach to increase numbers of students who are away from home who may require primary care services. This is to reduce demand on other services, and ensure…

Connecting primary and secondary care data to understand what constitutes good care for a pneumonia patient, from diagnosis to hospital discharge and beyond.

Co-designing a systems approach to managing complexity in Healthcare Improvement - building on the landmark report, Engineering Better Care, together we can develop the power to tame wicked problems.

This proposal will involve building a network that develops and supports peer led creative groups for people with mental health issues across the Wakefield District to improve their wellbeing.

Group rehabilitation courses for COPD are cost effective, improve symptoms and quality of life. However, many people do not attend or complete. We will test an information video to increase…

A perioperative care pathway to support non-hospital-based management, limit needless antibiotic treatments, reduce lead time to surgery and same day cancellations and improve patient experience.

To implement a Modified Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) Programme which is an evidenced based upper limb treatment intervention, into the Occupational Therapy Neurology Service Trust wide.

To produce a toolkit to support specialties in creating one stop clinics which can be adapted to suit any area.

Our proposal is to trial CVP Cloud Rooms to ascertain whether they provide a safe, cost effective alternative to traditional outpatient appointments for our patients in prison.

Programme management funding for Outpatient transformation across the Norfolk and Waveney STP. This area covers - 1,000,000 patients - 5x CCG's - 3x Acute hospital trusts - 109 GP Practices

Building the capability to upload and share locally defined clinical pathways across Primary, Community and Secondary care. Improving governance, supporting decision aids and collecting outcomes/data.

To design a tool to support young people through their transition from CAMHS into AMH services that, when tested, will be electronically plat-formed into an App for use during their…

We want to create a network of wellbeing champions across Wessex and Thames Valley to provide peer support for those seeking to make changes in their own NHS organisations to…

To improve the community paediatric offering to children in the North of Sheffield and provide easier access for Roma/Slovak children and their families who would not otherwise attend appointments.

To co-produce a QI training package for staff and patients at Broadmoor High Secure Hospital. This will be a joint initiative between nursing and OT staff, based at the hospitals…

Using multiple alternative, non-face-to-face (F2F) methods, we will reduce patient visits after hip and knee arthoplasty surgery safely whilst improving patient experience and avoiding waste

To explain and promulgate process management as a key requirement of continuous process improvement in the NHS. To demonstrate that performance is a key measure of quality. To design a…

To enhance the health of residents in care homes we will create a workforce that is familiar with QI methodology and we will demonstrate working across providers to improve care…

Supporting integrated teams in their efforts to improve person centred care around Anticipatory Care Planning for people with palliative care needs, in the community.

Families are doing complex healthcare procedures at home (e.g. feeding tubes and ventilation). Our project will pilot and spread ways to train parents and carers of children with medical complexity.

Using next-gen AI and wearable technologies, our population health management pilot will: • Identify those with a long-term condition(s) • Mitigate their immediate health risks • Enable self-care

Working across primary and secondary care boundaries, using integrated IT systems, local knowledge and analytics, this project will identify more patients with CKD giving opportunities for better care

Coproducing with patients, carers and staff, a strategic vision of opportunity, challenge, and delivery, of a virtual cross-boundary MND pathway using the My Medical Record (MyMR) platform

Develop a validated impact evaluation framework for patient information videos in clinical pathways that captures both patient experience and health economic benefits.

The numbers of deaths from alcohol related liver disease is rising. We aim to provide analysis and reports to delivery staff and commissioners to help make improvements to services and…

Project to implement a systems leadership approach through coproduction aiming to increase Joy in Work, promote and improve integration, improve patient outcomes through Quality Improvement (QI).

Adrenal 'Patient First' Telephone Support System -Improves outpatient clinic capacity -Puts patients at the forefront of decision-making -Engages them early in the diagnostic pathway -Reduces distress

Health coaching and social prescribing have significant overlap. Developing heuristics, using patient unique scores, will help the primary care team optimise how to stratify and signpost patients .

Develop a specialist First Contact Practitioner (FCP) service for patients presenting with urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse in primary care

An awards ceremony programme to showcase, socialise and reward excellence in quality, safety and improvement initiatives and encourage subsequent spread and adoption of solutions across Kent.

The people aspect of change, at times called the 'soft' side of improvement, is often the hardest part! We want to engage & bring people together to spread knowledge of…

Large scale change is complex & often fails to deliver benefits. Public involvement in framing the challenge & making pragmatic, locally designed changes to ensure solutions meet citizen needs.

The project will build QI capability across the ICP to support sustainable improvements in the quality of care, patient outcomes and efficiencies through the development of health economy pathways

To redesign a section of the recovery area in the Heart Centre at NGH into a dedicated Radial Lounge. This will promote safe vascular access, same-day discharge and an improved…

This projects aims to co-design a quality coach development programme to support the rapid development of QI capability and support service integration.

To run a ‘Breakthrough Series’ (BTS) Collaborative with one Primary Care Network (PCN) with the aim of embedding QI methodology whilst working on a high priority health inequality for its…

A Trust wide secure mobile device App solution to clinical patient photography / video for out of hours, hospital / community photography or when a Medical Photographer isn’t available.

We will improve healthcare and address health inequalities of prisoners by building capacity in improvement skills across organisational and professional boundaries (NHS and HMPS) via 2 key projects

To test collaborative approaches to facilitating 'wicked' system wide problems, from diagnosis through to improvement, whilst building QI capacity & capability through learning by doing.

In order to tackle the wicked problems of inappropriate polypharmacy and overprescribing, we aim to empower passionate people, to facilitate the development of successful Communities of Practice.

Current commissioning arrangements directly affects the efficiency and productivity of mental health trusts. The aim is to co-produce commissioning outcomes for CYP Mental Health pathways.

This project aims to transform the pathway for patients who need long term monitoring by enabling access to specialist blood tests closer to home and two-way communication with specialists

To create a digital repository of improvement programmes/projects to avoid duplication of work and benefit from shared learning throughout the system.

1) Consider how to increase joy in work across different sectors using a collaborative approach based on the IHI methodology 2) From this learning develop a Toolkit/How-To Guide to share…