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The DAYLife project was launched in January 2019 acrossthe East and West Midlands with a network wide event. 104 members of the wider kidney team, patients, managers and commissioners attended. During the day attendees:
- Diagnosed the region’s current situation with regard to home therapies
- Shared and discussed the process maps they had produced
- Created and shared local, detailed driver diagrams for their project
- Received training in the NHS Change Model and other QI theory, useful tools and resources
- Discussed the measures they would use to show progress on their improvement projects
- Planned their first change cycles using the P-D-S-A method
Full details of teams diagnostic exploration and initial P-D-S-A ideas can be found in the launch event report here