I started my nurse training over 30 years ago, but I still remember writing an essay that included the quote “The very first requirement in hospital is that it should do the sick no harm” I thought that a quote from Florence Nightingale was a shoe in to at least
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As we go into 2020 celebrating WHO’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife, we catch up with Elinore Macgillivray and Donna James from the Improvement Cymru Maternity and Neonatal team to talk about how Florence Nightingale’s approach to nursing included using the improvement skills that we currently use in Improvement
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Care Home Cymru is a national improvement programme for older people living in care homes in Wales. Through the programme we are supporting and developing a national network of care homes that are passionate about improving the quality of life for their residents. At the end of November 2019 as
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We asked delegates at our conference to share their personal improvement journeys, what’s next for them and what support they need. I was overwhelmed with the responses we received, and how many of them chimed with areas we had focused on earlier that morning. Themes of clear connections and dedicated
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Dr Balan Palaniappan – Clinical Lead for Cancer in Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB, tells us about his involvement with Improvement Cymru and looks to the future of his work I love a metaphor. Who doesn’t? They communicate so much. In the last twelve months our friends in Improvement Cymru have
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On 25 and 26 November over 650 attendees from across Wales got together in Cardiff for the launch of Improvement Cymru. We catch up with Dr John Boulton, Director of Improvement Cymru and NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety to find out what his key reflections were from the event.
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