By Dr Rachel Ann Jones, Learning Disability Programme Lead and Prof John Boulton, National Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety/Director of Improvement Cymru. The recently published NICE Impact report on People with Learning Disability makes for difficult reading. On average people with learning disability will die at least
Continue readingBy Prof Tom Crosby OBE, Consultant Oncologist, National Cancer Clinical Director for Wales, Clinical Lead Transforming Cancer Services, Velindre Cancer Centre. I was delighted to see the launch of Improvement Cymru’s new strategy and programme ‘Safe Care Together’. This marks a new chapter in how Improvement Cymru work with organisational
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All of us at Improvement Cymru are excited to launch our new strategy ‘Achieving Quality and Safety Improvement’. It outlines how we will work together with the health and care system in Wales to ensure everyone has access to safe, effective and efficient care – in the right place and
Continue readingToday is World Sepsis day, as many of you are aware. It is strange to think that since we last marked this day so much has changed within the health and care system. Many of us have been at the fore of dealing with the immediate response to the pandemic.
Continue readingPan lansiwyd Academi Gwelliant Cymru ym mis Tachwedd 2019, ein nod oedd darparu offer, cefnogaeth a hyder i staff y GIG i wella ansawdd gyda’n gilydd gan wybod #Gallwngyda’ngilydd. Gan symud ymlaen trwy bandemig byd-eang lle mae staff GIG Cymru wedi gweithio’n ddiflino i newid gwasanaethau a phrosesau yn gyflym
Continue readingWhen we launched the Improvement Cymru Academy in November 2019 our aim was to provide NHS staff with the tools, support and confidence to improve quality together knowing that #Togetherwecan. Fast forward through a global pandemic where NHS Wales staff have worked tirelessly to rapidly change services and processes to
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