As someone who has tried to improve care for kidney patients via quality improvement methods, I was very happy to write a blog about the role of context. Basically, because boy do I wish I’d understood it earlier! One of my first roles as a new consultant was to act as Director for a QI project to reduce infections from central lines in Salford Royal. For…
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The King’s Fund – Quality improvement in health care: lessons on leading and implementing solutions
The King’s Fund are delivering a high level one-day event on Thursday 9th November 2017 for people leading and delivering quality improvement strategies and approaches in health care organisations including NHS acute, mental health and community trusts. It will help you to make a success of quality improvement projects in your organisation by drawing on lessons around leading, implementing and embedding initiatives that improve clinical effectiveness,…
Read MoreThe Health Foundation ‘Q’ initiative open for new applications
Q is an initiative connecting people with improvement expertise across the UK. Through Q the Health Foundation is creating “opportunities for people to come together as an improvement community – sharing ideas, enhancing skills and collaborating to make health and care better.” From 3 August until 11 September 2017 ‘Q’ will open for applications for those working or volunteering in: Northern Ireland East Midlands (through East Midlands AHSN) Oxfordshire,…
Read MoreKQuIP ENewsletter – July 2017
Please click here to read KQuIP’s ENewsletter for July 2017.
Read MoreNew Measurement Tools available on the KQuIP Hub
Over the last few months, the Measurement and Understanding workstream have been identifying and collecting information on identified measurement tools that could be used within quality improvement projects in the renal setting. When initially embarking on this project, we decided we wanted measurement tools that were relevant to renal patients; rigorous and valid providing accurate measurement; and relevant to quality improvement interventions and projects. We started…
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