By 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
Continue readingBy Benna Waites, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Clinical Lead, Improvement Cymru, Joint Head of Psychology Counselling and Arts Therapies, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Psychological safety is a key priority for the Safe Care Collaborative, aiming to create the conditions for change, fuelling momentum by removing barriers and supporting improvement across
Continue readingEarly Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) services help young people with a first episode of psychosis in their recovery and to gain a good quality of life. A service user has blogged outlining their experience of psychosis, their positive experience of accessing their local EIP service as part of their recovery
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