The Powys Quality Improvement Faculty Wiki Page
A warm welcome from Brendan Lloyd, Medical Director, Powys Teaching Health Board
The Powys Quality Improvement Faculty was founded on the 24th November 2010 as part of the work of the 1000 Lives Plus programme. This Faculty will build upon the significant quality improvements already achieved in the original 1000 Lives campaign in areas such as the recognition of the acutely ill patient and the prevention of surgical hypothermia .
The Faculty for Quality Improvement will seek to expand the scope of quality improvement into every aspect of health and social care. The Faculty will develop the capacity and capability to undertake quality improvement work and encourage the successful spread of innovation and learning.
The Faculty’s working methods will be based on the “all teach, all learn” approach that has been pioneered by America’s Institute of Healthcare Improvement to drive their quality improvement work over the last 20 years. The Faculty will seek to connect all interested individuals to an ever-developing learning network where problems can be posed and the suggested solution developed through a peer-supported model-for- improvement process.
Members of the Faculty will act as project leads, supporters, friendly critics and subject experts. They will spread their knowledge and skills in quality improvement methods by structured learning sets, informal mentoring and publication. External support has also been supplied in the form of advice from quality improvement leaders Dr David Gozzard and Breeda Worthington from the 1000 Lives Plus programme and the National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare (NLIAH).
What's New on the Quality Improvement Faculty?
Visit the What's New section for a summary of all the latest additions on the Quality Improvement Faculty site. This page will be updated at least once a week, with details of the latest news, reports, and events of relevance to the Faculty. Don't forget to look at the News Updates section for daily news items from the Department of Health, NHS Wales, King's Fund, Institute of Health Improvement, BBC Health etc.
New for March 2012 - a new section on Plan, Do, Study, Act Cycles, including examples of PDSA Cycles from Powys
New for March 2012 - Examples of Good Practice in Powys now includes the entries from Powys in the NHS Wales Awards 2012, and the Clinical Leadership Programme's projects for 2011
For more information on using the Powys Quality Improvement Faculty website, visit our How to Use the Powys Quality Improvement Faculty Website page.
For interesting articles, books and journals on the subject of Quality Improvement
Go to our Reports, Books and Journals page for downloadable documents, web links and book selections on a variety of quality improvement subjects
For information on specific projects underway in Powys
Go to our Projects for Improvement page for a list of planned or current quality improvement projects
Comments (5)
breeda.worthington@wales.nhs.uk said
at 10:58 am on Feb 4, 2011
I'm in and online - Thanks Howard :-) Breeda
dummer@cardiff.ac.uk said
at 1:55 pm on Feb 4, 2011
Howard and colleagues
Many thanks for setting-up this new facility - much appreciated.
I encourage everyone to engage fully with this new initiative! The benefits will enhance patient care and also provide an opportunity for us all to learn and benefit as individuals in a supportive environment. I look forward to seeing the Faculty develop over time and evolve into a world leading resource.
Regards
Paul Dummer
alan.willson@wales.nhs.uk said
at 8:57 am on Feb 17, 2011
To all colleagues in Powys
Congratulations on establishing this resource. It seems an excellent way to underpin your work on the Faculty and fits with your geography. We look forward to spreading the learning to other LHBs in Wales.
Many thanks Alan Willson
breeda.worthington@wales.nhs.uk said
at 11:24 am on Mar 7, 2011
Dear Powys and improvement colleagues
I have just read one of the Powys Faculty Wiki alerts on recent reports and would commend the Ling, T. report 'How do you get your clinicians involved with quality improvement? an evaluation of the Health Foundation's Engaging with Quality Initiative : a programme of work to support clinicians to drive forward quality - final report. Health Foundation, 2010.
It isnt saying anything you probably didnt already know or would seem new but it is worth using and referring to if you want help/support, not necessarily to engage clinicians but for clinicians to see what could be available or helped, and what has/n't worked in the recent past. But of course it has the obvious title too :-)
regards
Breeda M Worthington
paul.labourne@wales.nhs.uk said
at 2:35 pm on Jul 6, 2011
Dear all,
Just a test now I am in
Paul
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