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Working to show Trusts and Q community the resources required for a successful introduction of barrier-based methods, to understand a wider view of risks and managing defences (barriers) to prevent…

The driver diagram indicates areas targeted for quality improvement including packaging across two diverse populations inner city and rural locations

Dedicated to helping ambitious and creative health professionals develop diverse, successful and above all fulfilling careers through business skills training.

Find more princes, kiss less frogs. Discover the best of Qs' good practices and connect more purposefully with Q colleagues. A tool and innovative dashboard to make us greater than…

Build capacity and capability in QI knowledge for community midwifery teams across Northern Ireland building on the work of our existing Maternity Collaborative which to date has focused on acute…

We will help you measure how much your project benefits patients, staff and others, using validated person-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs). Ideal for peer-support schemes.

Trialling video conferencing to enable group based peer support and comparing its benefits and value with online forum support and one to one telephone based peer support. Additionally we will…

Robust evidence exists about using data to make the best decisions. The NHS uses lots of RAG and two point comparisons. Let’s start a revolution to Make Data Count!

Upskilling public and patients to fully and actively engage in quality improvement projects

Developing a resource to aid communication of concepts based on studying how individuals perceive information through data, pictures and words – whilst minimising cognitive load to increase understanding and engagement.

Sexual safety of mental health inpatients is a key priority area. The co-production and facilitation of awareness training ensures that employees and patients generate safe space within the ward environments.

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…

A collaborative, co-designed, flexible course to enable families to care for their loved ones at home in the last year of life

The Trust will work with students at the University for Creative Arts to co-produce, with patient and caregiver representatives, innovative support material for those with coexisting dementia and hearing loss.

To introduce a tool developed by health and social care with care home providers to improve medication safety by identifying the risks/gaps and reduce medication errors in care homes.

Encouraging people with long-term conditions to self-manage with QI tools, supported by Chronic Disease Self-Management Programme lay tutors who are also Quality Improvement Facilitators.

The aim of this study is identifying how to reduce waste, reuse equipment and refine processes within the operating theatre, whilst seeking to understand drivers and barriers to sustainability adoption.

Utilising nudge theory to increase the uptake of flu vaccinations in a community provider Trust with historically low uptake

Building on the learnings from the pan-London Paediatric Sepsis community, we are developing a national network to collaboratively improve the recognition of sepsis and deterioration in children.

A Human Factors and Ergonomics approach to improving early recognition and potentially life-saving treatment of sepsis in the emergency department.

We have developed and tested an approach to understand flows across care systems in order to design sustainable improvements. We'd like to evaluate its impact.

2 Open Learning Workshops to share and learn about Ambulance QI development, discuss/propose shared pilots of Ambulance specific methodology for building capacity in Improvement, share learning and Improvement projects in…

Supporting improvement and shared best practice via a peer support community for managers in the 77 care homes in the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering & Redbridge

In Autumn 2017 identified that we need to reduce/prevent falls in our area to improve outcomes for patients. Falls strategy agreed with a large number of stakeholders. Ideas to implement,…

Mental health inpatient wards can be traumatising for people with psychosis. We will co-design peer support to address the root causes of this and help rewrite the current psychosis narrative.

Giving residents a voice on how they wish to be cared for by embedding Coordinate My Care into the care home sector. Delivering quality improvement between health and social care.

To embed patient self management and an associated peer support facility into newly formed Neighbourhood Teams and existing GP practices in a large, mainly rural, county.

Our focus is to improve the services we provide as an ambulance service by involving patients and the public in service developments and quality improvements.

The important interactions in healthcare happen face-to-face. Supporting and enabling continuous improvement should also be delivered face-to-face. Our ‘serious’ game will help staff embed continuous improvement practices in their workplace.

To develop a simulation toolkit based on human factors principles that can be easily used to test ideas and potential solutions from QI projects or incident investigation recommendations before implementation.

This project will co-design implementation guidance to support healthcare staff in facilitating meaningful peer relationships as part of group-based clinical care for young adults with diabetes (aged 16-25) in diverse,…

We are all busy. Surrounded by data - is it information or a black hole? This project will help you think about what, why and when you need data.

To set up an online community for GPs and other general practice staff who are involved in QI work to exchange ideas and share learning, with the aim of supporting…

Focus groups to ascertain priorities for young people and families. Using the principles of co-production we aim to incorporate the outcomes of these groups to help us develop the services.

To develop a peer-support network of groups and individuals undertaking Quality Improvement activity across the Health Board through the formation of a Qspace and Qnet.

To further develop and expand Nottinghamshire’s Community of Practice for health and social care professionals working with care homes. Promoting collaboration, reducing isolation, and improving communication whilst sharing best practice.

Four unconnected factors – loneliness, service integration, sleep and social determinants of health – greatly impact our health and wellbeing. We want to test four new PROMs collaboratively at scale.

Utilising existing paramedic staff that are dual qualified Non Medical Prescribers working outwith the Ambulance Service to work to their full scope of practice including prescribing to test and develop…

Creating wider awareness and understanding about adverse childhood experiences (ACE) across the community and wider population. Empowering people to understand that reducing early adverse experiences for children is possible.

We are seeking to provide the following to promote and support the improvement activity of our coaches. • Opportunity to meet, network and share learning • Strengthening cross departmental/site working,…

Asthma friendly schools Programme- A proposal for community-based interventions through schools to improve outcomes of children and young people with asthma.

“Breast is best” though it's not always easy or instinctive. Our local initiation rates for breastfeeding are good, but approximately 20% come to the Emergency Department before they are a…

Setting up peer support groups in the hospital antenatal clinic setting. Kills two birds - makes good use of hospital waiting time, as well as provides women with risk factors…

Community engagement and co-production of a Health and Wellbeing Programme to tackle the cancer health gap in Bristol.

Develop a single offering of improvement training, digital resources and ongoing coaching and support to teams working across health and social care in Somerset.

We aim to link existing wider determinant metrics, with services that have an evidence base for impacting wider determinants, ultimately creating a directory of impactibility to allow care providers to…

National RTQ SIG strengthens peer support for quality professionals and to further develop and expand national quality group which is owned by quality professionals in radiotherapy. We act as central…

To improve peer support in musculoskeletal physiotherapy services, supporting staff to support patients, widening access to knowledge and skills, to improve clinical outcomes, staff and patient experience, and cost efficiency.

Integrating technology into condition management appraches to improve outcomes and promote digital inclusion which will include a range of self management group programmes that are delivered via Skype covering a…

Improving shared decision making in maternity by launching a “what matters to you?” campaign informed by insight from conversational analysis and visualization principles

We want to work as a team of peer experts and clinical staff to offer an improved service user experience of mental health crisis care

Triage generally is a process of sifting and prioritising both in terms of urgency and relevance. ‘Red flags’ in mental health identify and place urgency on important items such as…

Coproduction of a tailored QI and peer support training package to support patients and carers to have meaningful involvement in quality improvement work

To run a sepsis awareness campaign for staff in hospital and community settings across Northern Ireland involving keynote speakers, local champions, and patients to improve sepsis care.

Taking PROMS and PREMS and applying them to specialist dental practice in the intermediate setting, using digitally enhanced methods. Enhancing patients ability to feedback and to capture data for service…

Exploring how social media can create connections between teenagers and school nurses as well as how school nurses can use social media to reach large cohorts of young people, offer…

This Project aims to transform the experience of people in custody, by enabling community, citizenship and wellbeing through a co-produced peer mentor programme.

Do you ever get that sinking feeling when you here the phrase 'Whatever you think is best Doctor'? The birth of the NHS sparked a fantastic revolution in healthcare, however…

Using the Measurement and Monitoring of Safety Framework to understand the system drivers and barriers for engaging with Primary Care/General Practice

AQuA with Public World have supported East Cheshire Community Trust, Wirral Community Trust & Manchester LCO to develop Buurtzorg style Self Led Community Teams over the past 9 months. Now…

Testing the use of a tool to support domiciliary care staff in recognising the softer signs of deterioration. Improving response and communication to colleagues/health professionals ( incorporating SBAR).

Producing a range of media for patients to improve pre and post-operative experiences within dentistry by tackling the issues that often affect patients health literacy and their understanding of procedures.

Using the “Homeward Bound” educational resource as a catalyst to create a change in practice where there is a deterioration and clinical uncertainty of recovery. The aim is to facilitate…

HQIP wants to turn our prototype National Clinical Audit Benchmarking data sharing platform into the national clinical audit Speed DATAing agency for quality improvement in the NHS in England.

Creating a level playing field for Mental Health service users, carers and professionals to work together to make services better using coproduction and quality improvement models

Change management training for team members and support for venue and provision of on-going engagement events

To develop a software system that helps support and embed a culture of quality improvement across NHS organisations. A mock up can be seen in the cover image.

Accessing support when you are new to improvement can be difficult. Our programme provides essential QI skills and encourages sharing of learning, developing the Q members of the future.

To train a peer-led network of Community Reporters to evaluate creative activities, providing new insights, and measuring impact of what are often described as “soft and fluffy” approaches.

Improving quality is about making healthcare safe, effective, patient-centred, timely, efficient and equitable. In the history of the NHS, there has never been such a focus on improving the quality…

To provide Peer Coordination within a new Integrated Musculoskeletal Service between NHS and community partners. Training of Peer supporters with lived experience will be utilised to enhance the service

Introduce a talking café into an acute hospital setting to support people being discharged in a timely manner.

• To engage with all staff in focused discharge planning using the AH@H / D2A model, including partner agencies in this rural area. • Enabling smooth transition from hospital to…

Peer support and self advocacy for those living with dementia and for carers co-produced in partnership to enable, empower and inform the community to live well with dementia.

Social Prescribing for young people is an exciting opportunity for development. The national focus has been very much on working with adults through primary or secondary care, with pre-existing health…

As a result of earlier detection and better treatment options, thankfully more people are surviving a diagnosis of cancer. This means that more people are living with and beyond cancer.…

Scale up delivery of facilitated sessions using a Toolkit to give confidence to people working in health and social care to deepen conversations and think creatively and ambitiously about transformation.

Giving patients access to patient transport journey information from home. Ability to track where their driver is. Automated text messages reminding patients when transport will arrive and driver on route.

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).

We would establish an ‘Investing in Innovation’ scheme to support the many QI initiatives that originate from the Trust’s Quality Charter and our Quality of Care Champions.

Let’s get fit for the future together!It is time to develop a holistic multidisciplinary health coaching programme to empower Northern Ireland children and families struggling with weight issues.

Running regional, cross specialty, wellbeing and peer support events for junior doctors focusing on to peer to peer support, what they can do to improve their working environment and wellbeing…

Using modernised, evidenced based, peer supported learning techniques, to address the shocking statistic that patients with severe mental illness die 20 years earlier than the general population.

Building a link between Kingston Hospital and the Welbodi Partnership (a UK registered charity), to support Maternity Care in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This partnership is expected to positively impact the…

To understand the capacity and demand of the component steps( e.g. outpatients, access to diagnostics and treatment)within cancer pathways, both at a local and National level

Using the opportunity of developing the concept of a Community Front Door to involve people in communities working with primary care staff to improve community supports and navigators.

Our project will identify what is needed to support the translation of QI training for healthcare staff into real impact on service user and care outcomes.

A robust evalution and development of a peer support programme in Redbridge CAMHS.

The NHS & VHA Transatlantic Programme to learn and deliver change across joint challenges. Using Digital technologies to support staff and patients to deliver better care and develop a culture…

Late presentation with advanced kidney failure to a nephrologist is regarded as a negative aspect of renal care. This projects aims to produce a "How to" toolkit to provide equity…

To equip and support carers to develop and run co-produced self-management education courses in the Recovery College, and deliver support sessions for ReThink and other carers groups across South West…

Collect national radiotherapy specific electronic PREM data, provide our quality professionals live results, help identify improvement needs locally and nationally to aid planning of measurable improvement with sustainable operation cost…

In situ theatre simulation allows regular training in human factors, non-technical skills and exposure to rare life threatening emergencies by a multi-disciplinary surgical team. The benefits simulation include team training,…

How do we measure social capital? CC4C is a new model of care that allows multi professional learning and support but we want to formally measure the impact that this…

al To trithe embedding of peer support workers in our First Episode of Psychosis team, adding peer support to provide a lived experience aspect that is not currently available but…

In a rural community, animals are often part of people's everyday life and yet they are often banned from hospital grounds. Research has shown significant benefits to healing and rehabilitation…

To train clinical and non-clinical staff in foundations of QI methodology and human factors, to enable a cohesive approach; ensuring that Quality Improvement becomes part of everyone’s ‘day’ job.

Hospital is a dangerous place to be if you don’t need it. Risk aversion and misunderstandings result in unnecessary unplanned attendances. This project helps care homes reverse the trend.

A joint initiative building bridges between General Practitioners and local Community Pharmacists in Portadown to create a local Community of Practice. Delivering innovation together.

People who have advanced kidney disease have to make very difficult decisions about their long-term health, such as choice of dialysis. The condition also has a significant impact on day-to-day…

The creation of a Community Health Champion network engaging and promoting self-management for MSK conditions, exploring the potential of the community health champion role in MSK pathways and models of…

A two stage evaluation to answer the question: How does "Going Digital" in Healthcare impact the Process, the People and the Place?

Development and implementation of a short message system (SMS) platform which allows customised conversations to measure the impact of Self-Management programmes in Wales

Increasing Joy at Work for staff by introducing QI board to floor and embedding a change culture that harnesses the resulting improvements in patient outcomes.

Tameside and Glossop ICO are keen to harness the experience of individuals with COPD to support others who have had acute admission to our wards. Developing one bag of COPD…

To develop staff and service users in a peer support network with knowledge and skills in improvement methodology. Enabling the delivery of high quality healthcare services using a coproduction approach.

Networks to empower health, social care, third sector and patient representation across the South to fast track service improvement through peer support, learning and use of critical friends

Siblings of children with long term or complex conditions can sometimes be forgotten. We would like to create age appropriate peer support groups for these children and young people led…

A face to face clinical supervision and virtual platform application to support clinical supervision, networking and safe practice of staff working in primary care, care homes, and the CCG.

A two year pilot evaluation of the implementation and impact of Compassion Circles within a Community Healthcare NHS trust in Leeds. Using mixed evaluative methods to generate learning about implementation,…

Understanding the culture and hidden harms in the current reactive approach to selecting vascular access devices, in order to facilitate a proactive vessel health and preservation framework in one hospital.

We would like to expand and develop our patient volunteer/buddies programme along the COPD care pathway and to design and test a volunteer/buddies training intervention co-designed and produced with volunteers…

To develop an evidence base for lack of Equality and Diversity in PPI by carrying out an audit of NHS organisations. To increase engagement of South Asian Patients, Carers and…

Reduce the Picker survey score for women receiving consistent infant feeding advice from 47% to the national average 44% by 2020 through implementation of the infant feeding strategy and robust…

Design, testing and implementation of an early warning scoring tool to recognise escalating signs and symptoms of wound infection to allow more timely, appropriate treatment BEFORE red flags are raised

Establishing a peer network for individuals currently within or recently discharged from secure services. This will include creation of two peer support groups/cafés within Langdon hospital and the community.

Development of Community of Practice for the embedding of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare by connecting members from all disciplines and sectors to create and distribute HFE knowledge.

This year we will be launching a project to develop new peer support roles into our successful volunteering programmes. Evaluation is a challenge for small charities and we would like…

Building on three years of success, we want to expand our support for those women in Wales living with chronic health conditions by co-producing more online resources, the promotion of…

Collaborative dialogue between primary healthcare and community peer support. Sharing knowledge, building connections, rebalancing power and responsibility. Identifying barriers for change, innovating creative solutions. Together, let’s reach a new mindset.

Creation of an interactive patient information portal, the portal will allow patients to ask questions concerning the service provided and will respond with the relevant answers. The system will be…

Training carers as Community Reporters to investigate carers’ views on peer support. Are Carer Peer Supporters a useful form of support?

We are a collaboration of maternity and neonatal staff, working alongside parents to avoid admission to neonatal unit and separation of mothers and babies. Our goal is keeping families together.

Our idea aims to equip and empower NHS staff to use story-telling in a way that will ‘flatten’ hierarchical structures, and help staff to ‘fail well’, through the mechanism of…

We propose to utilise community organising as a methodology to build effective relationships between communities and the hospital. This unique approach, could unlock a wealth of talent in our communities,…

Acne affects up to 80% of young people when they are stressed by exams, relationships and social media. Early management with peer and psychological support may reduce mental health issues.

To introduce and embed a standardised tool (Life QI) across the L&D for recording improvement projects, facilitating sharing, and promoting a culture of improvement.

Implement a learning from incidents process to engage teams in developing improvements in paediatric care and prevent reoccurrence of unplanned and adverse events and embed a culture of continuous improvement.

Our "peer support pods" will be key points of contact for patients, carers and family to access information about peer support and raise general awareness about available services.

Peer Support to Improve the Engagement of Primary care Healthcare Professionals in Cancer (prevention, early diagnosis and living with and beyond cancer)

Our idea is to co-develop a suite of capacity-building resources that builds on our previous collaborative work to develop a shared-learning framework of support and training for PPI contributors. #C4CinPPI

Healthcare and inspectorate organisations working together to co-design better inspection methods to improve healthcare quality and facilitate a culture of improvement

Our project focuses upon the use of the Patient Activation Measure, alongside experience-based-co-design to create and pilot solutions to allow a tailored approach to follow up post TIA

Create a package of innovative educational materials for real time pop-up delirium and dementia training. This will facilitate accessible delirium and dementia training across health and social care.

Promote medication safety by: • Co-involving patients and professionals • Engaging leaders • Sustaining and scaling the SMAC2 community • Spreading SMAC2 o to nurses and pharmacists o to other…

We aim to raise awareness of human factors in incident analysis and create a forum for learning of lessons following mental health-related serious incidents with our multi-agency partners.

The Somerset Falls Fellowship will create a partnership between the Health/Social Care system with Somerset Business/Unions to create a network of workplace based Falls prevention peer supporters (champions).

We propose piloting an intervention model to improve the quality of decision-making for service users in crisis and to make better use of available resources.

We will empower patients to self-care by training a member of staff in health coaching skills, mapping community assets and facilitate connections between patients and community-based peer support groups.

We are interested to find out if the standardisation of every day practices to discuss and act on care experience feedback helps to develop effective improvement practice and behaviour in…

Peer support from hospital specialist to community pharmacists to enable better use of medicines.

A peer mentor programme leading to the award of a professional qualification (for the peer mentors) to provide structured support to peers who are newly diagnosed with diabetes

To provide a leadership forum for registered nurses working in nursing homes based upon the established My Home Life Leadership programme for care home managers and the Prosper Quality Improvement…

A platform for Q members to post their need for QI support or look for QI work opportunities. Q members then complete the work and Bank that time to claim…

Being engaged in a serious incident investigation can be challenging, distressing and frustrating if you are unsure about the process, feel isolated and are concerned about what has happened. The…

To use mobile messaging to connect to groups of people and build a local network across a community of 6,500 residents.

Develop a QI community within care homes across Cheshire and Merseyside to improve safety and wellbeing of residents/staff, utilising a culture of learning and enablement, shared goals,values and principles

Using behavioural insights to generate low-cost interventions to improve health outcomes for Age UK service users, staff and volunteers in one of the most deprived areas in the UK

Developing a shortened version of the human factors analysis and classification system (HFACS) to build into incident investigation tools - 'HFAC Lite'

A Life Worth Living and not a Long Slow Goodbye! Psycho-social peer support for patients with dementia and for family member care givers co-produced in partnership with a committed core…

A lightweight, friendly digital app which mentors expectant mothers and motivates them towards better wellness through positive action and rewarding their achievements. It monitors activity to champion successes and adapts…

Rolling system of coordinated information about non clinical opportunities, peer support sessions and improved links to appropriate improvement support designed for Junior doctors to improve engagement between them, clinical staff…

The creation of a safe, accessible and appropriate peer support group for LGBT+ people, offering support and combatting social isolation, exclusion and discrimination.

Fresh Arts on Referral aims to develop creative peer support groups for specific chronic and complex health conditions to help patients better self-manage following discharge from hospital.

Fewer than 1 in 3 people suffering clinical levels of mental distress access mental health services. Connect 5 is a mental health promotion training programme for health and care staff,…

To develop a peer support model, empowering patients in primary care to self-manage and promote medication safety and medication optimisation in older people.

A collaboration between Emergency Departments in the Thames Valley region will enable us to share best practice for frequent attenders requiring mental health care, to better understand patient flow and…

Our innovation will provide parents with video-based information to help parents spot signs and symptoms of acute illness and know when to seek help.

If everyone in the NHS saved £1 a week by cutting waste (procurement, reducing unnecessary expenditure, saving resources, waste disposal etc) there would be £70M/year for direct patient care (for…

We would like to scale up our Narrative Masterclass to benefit wider groups students, staff and citizens of Sheffield This is a coproduced, codesigned 5 week 2 1/2 day course…

It's important that everyone understands the meaning of the words being used when the conversation is about quality. Juran, in his Quality Handbook, even has two definitions for quality. Herein…

To create and support patients to find and understand the evidence to guide their care. Peer support, guidance and training will be provided by clinicians and researchers with expertise.

Gentamicin is a widely used antibiotic but has the potential to cause renal and ototoxicity with an estimated 17,000 patient safety incidents reported over the past 3 years. Catching Canaries…

There is on average a 17-year gap between research and delivering best care for common conditions like depression and joint pain. Peer to peer knowledge mobilisation could close this gap.

Investigating the potential for the application of behavioural science approaches that “nudge” people towards adherence to prescribed medicines whilst maintaining their freedom of choice.

Aligning existing workforce planning approaches with proven improvement tools and using a rapid improvement approach to focuses on People, Process and Preparation to deliver workforce planning at pace.

NHS Near Me uses telehealth to provide hospital outpatient appointments in rural NHS facilities. We want to co-design the next step with patients: providing appointments for patients at home

Telehealth interventions hold the promise of better quality care and reduced workload, both of which could make primary care more sustainable. The Kernow CIC group could be offered as a…

Treatment adherence is exceptionally low in children with chronic conditions. Our platform provides children with an easy, fun way to manage their condition using peer support, behavioural 'nudges' and gamification.

Our project seeks to utilise community assets to co-design approaches and resources to reduce inflow and effectively signpost individuals with low-level healthcare needs away from A&E.

A programme leading to the award of a professional qualification in providing peer support for people with long term conditions.

To create condition specific patient information leaflets in an easily accessible digital format, incorporating exercise videos, ensuring patients get the latest information for their musculoskeletal conditions and the best outcome.

To facilitate the safe discharge of patients from hospital by 1pm

Repeat prescriptions account for 80% of prescriptions. The system is inherent with failure demand. We want to develop toolkits to support practices improve their own systems through self-analysis and co-design.

To develop an effective and accessible “Peer Support” network for staff (local and potentially regional) after patient safety incidents and other traumatic events; with measurable impact.

We want to check how staff and patients perceive the idea parameters from patient's e-health record can be utilised to direct pharmacists to support care and safety of inpatients.

To create a social movement of peer support for people living with dementia. To co-design in collaboration with health professionals, health providers, third sector organisations and service providers .

Daunted by data, queasy about QI, but passionate about patients: a pilot network for people who have a role in supporting clinical teams to respond effectively to patient experience feedback…

Using a multiskilled Virtual Ward team to support patients living with frailty after an acute hospital episode - comprehensive, integrated, personalised care.