Lee McQuaide, Senior Improvement Manager for the Improvement Cymru Academy | As we mark 75 years of the NHS, we’re getting to know a newer member of the Improvement Cymru Team, to understand their role in improvement and contribution to the NHS in Wales. I’m Lee McQuaide, Senior Improvement Manager
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To further mark Learning Disability Awareness Week (19-25 June), we caught up with Dr Hamish Cox CPsychol, Q Lab Cymru Insight and Reflective Practice Manager, and Rebecca Curtis, Learning Disability Senior Improvement Manager to share learning from their recent collaboration project. Adopting a Human Learning Systems approach, Q Lab Cymru
Continue readingBy Dr Rachel Ann Jones C.Psychol AFBPsS, National Learning Disability Programme Lead. “The values, knowledge and skills that healthcare staff will acquire through completing this vital training will really make a difference to the experience of patients with a learning disability. This training is a legacy to Paul, and we are
Continue readingBy Bethany Kruger, Senior Improvement Manager, Improvement Cymru. Since the dawn of time, we have attempted to understand our world and manage our place in it. We have attempted to seek out meaning and understanding. What does it mean to be me? And what does it mean to be someone
Continue readingBy Clare Dieppe, Clinical Lead, Improvement Cymru. A few months ago I found myself sitting in the high dependency unit relatives’ room waiting for an update on my partner who had just been admitted from the Emergency Department with sepsis. As a doctor, being a relative waiting for an update
Continue readingBy Prof John Boulton, Director of Improvement Cymru and National Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. One of the very few benefits of the last few years is that I have managed to start running again. Granted it is more like a plod, but I have been putting
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