By Mandy Westcott, Q Lab Cymru Senior Improvement and Collaboration Manager Human Learning Systems (HLS) is an alternative way of delivering public service that embraces complexity, relationships, and learning. It aims to create public services that are tailored to the unique strengths and needs of each person, family and community
Continue readingBy Dominique Bird, Deputy Director and Head of Quality Improvement, Improvement Cymru In the journey of healthcare improvement there is one essential ingredient that often determines our success – momentum. It’s the driving force that propels us forward, enabling us to overcome obstacles and reach our goals. It’s the energy
Continue readingBy Kate Mackenzie, Head of Improvement Analytics, Improvement Cymru What’s measurement but a second-hand thought? Data and measurement are so often seen as the geeky mood-hoover sucking the enthusiasm from your improvement efforts. I get it. It isn’t the reason why many people wanted to work in healthcare and feels
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By Jonathan Clarke, Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant, Clinical Lead at Improvement Cymru, and Assistant Medical Director for QI at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. It’s great to see the second cohort of the Suspected Cancer Pathway improvement work, in partnership with Improvement Cymru and the Welsh Cancer Network is
Continue readingBy Frank Federico, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Frank Federico is a senior patient safety expert and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) faculty. He is a pharmacist by training and has co-chaired several IHI collaboratives. Healthcare is complex and complicated. There are multiple people involved in delivering care, no matter the
Continue readingBy Martine Price, Nurse Lead, Improvement Cymru “This patient is non-compliant.” Some time ago, I was part of a pressure ulcer improvement collaborative across many of the wards in the hospital I was working in and this term ‘non-compliant’ kept coming up. Jane was a lady who had been in
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