Week 22 - quality improvement

Question 1

The common thread…

Answer 1

-Compliance and concordance
-Medicines Safety
-Evidence Based Practice
-Shared Decision Making

Question 2

Seven domains of quality

Answer 2

1)Safe
2)Timely
3)Effective
4)Efficient
5)Equitable
6)Person centred
7)Sustainable

Question 3

What is Quality Improvement?

Answer 3

“Improvement science is about finding out how to improve and make changes in the most effective way, it is about systematically examining the methods and factors that best work to facilitate quality improvement.” - (The Health Foundation, 2011)

Question 4

What is quality improvement? 2

Answer 4

Under the system of profound knowledge falls:
-Appreciation for a system
-Theory of knowledge
-Psychology
-Knowledge about variation
These all interlink and work alongside each other to build up quality improvement

Question 5

The improvement journey

Answer 5

-What? - what is the problem?
-Project preparation - building will and your team
-Where and why? - understanding the current system
-Record and get baseline data - develop an aim
-How? - develop change ideas
-Re-collect data
-Embed spread and scale up - build infrastructure to support change

Question 6

Where to start…

Answer 6

Department of Health and social care -> article called ‘good for you, good for us, good for everybody’
->A plan to reduce over prescribing to make patient care better and safer, to support the NHS and reduce carbon emissions
->Northern Ireland medication safety collaborative programme