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Andy Crawford is Head of Clinical Governance in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Location:

Glasgow, G12 OXH

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Topics:

Anna Burhouse, GenerationQ Fellow

Anna Burhouse has been in her current Trust-wide role as Director of Strategic Modernisation for 2Gether Trust for over two years

Location:

Gloucester, GL1 1LY

(South West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

2gether NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Annette Bartley, Quality Improvement Fellow

During her fellowship year Annette worked on a project, called ‘Transforming Care at the Bedside’, an initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The purpose of the project was to develop one or more models of care at the bedside to make care safer and more personalised for patients and more efficient and effective for staff.

Location:

Denbighshire, LL17 0JE

(Wales)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Conwy & Denbighshire NHS Trust

Topics:

Quality improvement

This project seeks to address that need by developing a practical solution to enable healthcare providers to measure and respond to parental input through a consistent and formal process.

Location:

B4 6NH

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust: Continuous remote monitoring of ill children

Shine 2011

The Shine 2011 team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital is working in partnership with the McLaren Formula 1 racing team to translate expertise used to monitor racing cars into a system that will predict deterioration in very sick children.

Location:

Birmingham, B4 6NH

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust

Topics:

Innovation

Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust: Using virtual reality simulation for transvaginal ultrasound scan training

This project is working to develop a new multi-professional TVU training curriculum based on virtual reality simulation. This will enable trainees to acquire the number of hours of hands-on practice they need to acquire skill in ultrasound away from a clinical setting without incurring high costs to supervising trusts.

Location:

B15 2TG

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Workforce, Value for money, Maternity, Innovation

Brian Tehan, GenerationQ fellow

Brian Tehan is one of our GenerationQ fellows. He is an Assistant Medical Director and Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, based at Glan Clwyd Hospital in North Wales.

Location:

Wrexham, LL13 7TD

(Wales)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Glan Clwyd Hospital

Topics:

Patient safety, Acute care

Bridget Turner, GenerationQ Fellow

In her current role as Head of Policy and Care Improvement, Diabetes UK, Bridget is responsible for the development of Diabetes UK’s policy and care agenda; influencing work programmes and service improvement activities, and supporting policy implementation.

Location:

London, NW1 7AA

(London)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Diabetes UK

Topics:

Quality improvement

Changing Relationships is a rapid evidence assessment of the international literature on how the evolving interface between patients and those providing healthcare services is leading to improvements in the quality of care. The review explores the concepts around “changing relationships” and asks what works to improve quality.

Location:

Cambridge, CB4 1YG

(East of England)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

RAND Europe

Topics:

Patient safety, Person-centred care, Quality improvement, Long-term conditions

Christine Keen was appointed as Associate Director of Primary Care, NHS Cumbria, in 2006 with responsibility for commissioning, contract and performance management across all primary care providers.

Location:

Penrith, CA11 8HX

(North West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Cumbria

Topics:

Clare Dieppe, GenerationQ fellow

Clare Dieppe is one of our GenerationQ fellows. She is a Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Clinical Lead for the Children's Emergency Department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Location:

Nottingham, NG7 2UH

(East Midlands)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

Acute care, Leadership, Quality improvement

Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships

Our evaluation of Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships aims to investigate the experiences and role perceptions of those involved in the process of changing the relationship between patients and clinicians. It will also investigate the barriers to and promoters of successfully changing the relationship.

Location:

Greater London, WC1X 8XG

(London)

Type:

Evaluation projects

Organisation:

Office for Public Management

Topics:

Person-centred care

Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities

This evaluation of Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities aims to further our understanding of how to ensure that improvement interventions based on the clinical communities model can have optimal impact.

Location:

Leicester, LE1 7RH

(East Midlands)

Type:

Evaluation projects

Organisation:

University of Leicester

Topics:

This project seeks to help trusts reduce waste and improve patient experience by using lean methodology when redeveloping healthcare buildings.

Location:

Gateshead, NE9 6SX

(North East)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Diarising the inpatient journey

This project aims to put patients at the centre of care planning through a patient diary. Interventions will be co-ordinated and structured around the patient's day, improving patient experience, reducing length of stay and managing resources more efficiently.

Location:

Birmingham, B15 2PR

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Dignity in practice: understanding and responding to the needs of frail older people in hospital

This project sets out to improve the quality of care experienced by older people, by transforming the patient pathway and ensuring that all older people feel welcomed and valued by well-trained staff.

Location:

Ashington, NE63 9JJ

(North East)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Dimple Vyas, Quality Improvement Fellow

Dimple Vyas, one of our Quality Improvement Fellows, is a Consultant Anaesthetist with special interest in chronic pain management. Dimple works at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) providing anaesthetics for major orthopaedic and urology surgeries and pain management services, as part of a team, for patients living with chronic pain.

Location:

Huddersfield, HD3 3EA

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Dr Anne Kilgallen, Quality Improvement Fellow

Clinican Scientist Fellowships

Anne is Medical Director for Western Health and Social Care Trust where she is the Trust’s executive lead for quality and safety. She will be focusing on how to implement quality improvement at an organisational level.

Location:

BT47 6SB

(Northern Ireland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Western Health and Social Care Trust

Topics:

Leadership, Quality improvement

Dr Fallowfield's research focuses on haemodynamic and anti-fibrotic effects of targeted therapies in models of cirrhosis and portal hypertension (high blood pressure in the portal vein).

Location:

Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

University of Edinburgh

Topics:

Dr Julie Reed, Improvement Science Fellow

Improvement Science Fellowships

Julie is looking to examine how improvement science can support frontline staff to put evidence into practice to deliver better care. She is the research strategy manager for the National Institute for Healthcare Research CLAHRC (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) for north west London.

Location:

London, SW1V 2AR

(London)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Imperial College London

Topics:

Improvement science

Dr Malcolm Daniel, Quality Improvement Fellow

Malcolm Daniel has been a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI), part of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, for 13 years. This is the largest NHS Board in Scotland, providing healthcare to 1.2 million people.

Location:

Glasgow, G3 8YZ

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Topics:

Quality improvement

Dr Noeleen Davey, Quality Improvement Fellow

Noeleen retired from the NHS in August 2010 and is now working part time as a self-employed Improvement Advisor.

Location:

Belfast, BT16 1RH

(Northern Ireland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust

Topics:

Quality improvement

Dr Olu Orugun, GenerationQ Fellow

Quality improvement fellowships

Dr Olu Orugun is currently working with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the GP reference group to help improve support for the uptake of NICE guidance and the implementation of NICE guidance in clinical practice.

Location:

Whitehaven, CA28 8JG

(North West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

Quality improvement

Dr Peter Chamberlain, Quality Improvement Fellow

Peter is a General Practitioner, Clinical Commissioner for South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group and Community Clinical Tutor at the University of Liverpool. During his year in Boston he will be focusing on systems of care connected with frailty and long-term conditions.

Location:

L20 3JA

(North West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group

Topics:

Leadership, Quality improvement

Dr Trisha Woodhead, Quality Improvement Fellow

Dr Tricia Woodhead's appointment as Executive Medical Director to Weston Area Health Trust in 2001 has led to significant development of services and facilities. Using whole systems thinking and stakeholder partnership has been fundamental to developments in the Trust.

Location:

Weston-Super-Mare

(South West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Weston Area Health NHS Trust

Topics:

Quality improvement

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

This project focuses on transfer of care processes for patients who are elderly and frail, admitted to hospital via the unscheduled care pathway.

Location:

Canterbury, CT1 3NG

(South East)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Patient safety, Older people

Eileen Moir, GenerationQ Fellow

Eileen Moir begun her career in her native Shetland Islands in the late 1970s and has a background in general and mental health nursing, practice development and quality improvement. During her career she has undertaken study into various aspects of healthcare in the USA, Czech Republic, South Africa and New Zealand, all of which has been invaluable in informing her work in leading improvement and managing transitions.

Location:

Edinburgh, EH7 5EA

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (Edinburgh)

Topics:

Fiona Haughey has worked in the NHS since qualifying as a nurse in 1984. After working in general nursing she then became a registered mental nurse (RMN) and worked in acute and community psychiatry.

Location:

Poole, BH12 5AG

(South England)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Bournemouth and Poole

Topics:

Fleur Taylor, GenerationQ Fellow

Fleur Taylor has worked in the healthcare sector since graduating in 1994 with a BSc in Podiatry. She worked across primary and secondary healthcare with NHS Lincolnshire for seven years.

Location:

Lincoln, LN4 2HN

(East Midlands)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Lincolnshire

Topics:

Quality improvement

Flow, Cost, Quality

This programme focuses on the relationship between patient flow, costs and outcomes in two NHS hospital trusts. It is examining patient flow through the emergency care pathway and developing ways in which capacity can be better matched with demand, to prevent queues and poor outcomes for patients.

Location:

Warwick, CV34 5BW

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

South Warwickshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

Patient safety, Value for money

Flow, Safety, Cost

Location:

Sheffield, S10 2JF

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Patient safety, Value for money

Harriet Hunter trained as a midwife and has worked in London and Edinburgh. For the last 10 years she has worked in quality improvement in the NHS and has spent the last five years working in the Improvement and Support Team at the Scottish Government Health Directorates.

Location:

Edinburgh, EH1 3DG

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Scottish Government

Topics:

Hazel Borland, GenerationQ fellow

Hazel Borland is Executive Nurse Director at NHS Dumfries and Galloway.

Location:

Dumfries, DG1 4TG

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Dumfries and Galloway

Topics:

Leadership, Quality improvement

HealthQuest Solutions Limited: My COPD solution

This project seeks to provide a single solution for allowing patients to self manage COPD that can be adopted by services around the country, saving time and making it easy for services to follow best practice.

Location:

BH21 2EX

(South West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

HealthQuest Solutions Limited

Topics:

Person-centred care, Quality improvement, Innovation, Long-term conditions, Self management support

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust: Identification of diabetes patients at risk of renal disease

Shine 2011

Since 2004, the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust renal team has been developing an innovative system for early detection and treatment of diabetic patients who are at the highest risk of developing ESRD.

Location:

Birmingham, B9 5SS

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Innovation

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust: Rehabilitation for operated cancer

Curative lung cancer surgery can lead to loss of lung function and reserve, which puts the patient at risk of complications in and out of hospital. The Shine project team at Heart of England Foundation Trust is introducing a rehabilitation programme that will improve and support the recovery of patients who have undergone curative lung cancer surgery.

Location:

Birmingham, B9 5SS

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Primary care, Acute care, Person-centred care, Quality improvement, Innovation, Self management support

Hilary MacPherson, GenerationQ Fellow

Hilary MacPherson is from North Wales but has lived and worked in Central Scotland since graduating from Edinburgh University. She has an MBA in Healthcare from Stirling University.

Location:

Stirling, FK8 2AH

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Forth Valley

Topics:

Hiro Tanaka, GenerationQ Fellow

Hiro Tanaka is the Clinical Director for Orthopaedics at Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board in South Wales.

Location:

Pontypool - Torfaen, NP4 0YP

(Wales)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Aneurin Bevan Health Board

Topics:

Hospital Pathways programme

Our Hospital Pathways programme will demonstrate how the health service can achieve its aim of putting the patient at the centre of everything we do. It is run in partnership with The King’s Fund as part of its Point of Care programme, and works with patients, families, healthcare staff and hospital boards to improve the patient experience.

Location:

North Shields, NE29 8NH

(North East)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Acute care, Person-centred care

Hospital Pathways programme

Location:

London, NW3 2QG

(London)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust

Topics:

Acute care, Person-centred care

Hospital Pathways programme

Location:

Salisbury, SP2 8BJ

(South West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Acute care, Person-centred care

Hospital Pathways programme

Location:

Taunton, TA1 5DA

(South West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Acute care, Person-centred care

Hospital Pathways programme

Our Hospital Pathways programme aimed to demonstrate how the health service can achieve its aim of putting the patient at the centre of everything we do. It was run in partnership with The King’s Fund as part of its Point of Care programme, and worked with patients, families, healthcare staff and hospital boards to improve the patient experience.

Location:

Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Topics:

Acute care, Person-centred care

Jatinder Harchowal has been Chief of Pharmacy in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust since October 2009.

Location:

Brighton, BN2 5BE

(South England)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

Jay Banerjee, Quality Improvement Fellow

Jay Banerjee, one of our Quality Improvement Fellows, is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine, with a special interest in paediatrics and geriatrics, at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

Location:

Leicester, LE1 5WW

(East Midlands)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Topics:

Joanne Medhurst, GenerationQ Fellow

Joanne Medhurst was appointed Joint Managing Director and Medical Director at Bexley Business Support Unit in March 2011.

Location:

Sidcup, DA15 7JQ

(London)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Bexley Care Trust

Topics:

Jo Davis, GenerationQ Fellow

Jo has a long-held commitment to improving healthcare services for patients and looks to focus on leadership and improvement skills to make a contribution to improving quality in the Cornwall health economy.

Location:

Truro, TR1 3LJ

(South West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

John Boulton, Quality Improvement Fellow

John Boulton, one of our Quality Improvement Fellows, is a Consultant Rheumatologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest acute trusts.

Location:

Sheffield, S10 2JF

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

John Byrne, GenerationQ fellow

Dr John Byrne is a GenerationQ fellow and clinical director for integrated care for Southern Health Foundation Trust.

Location:

Southampton, SO40 2RZ

(South East)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Leadership, Quality improvement

Journey to safety

Journey to Safety was a five-year research programme (2006–2011), supporting Professor Charles Vincent and colleagues from Imperial College London at the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ), examining how to improve the safety of an entire healthcare organisation.

Location:

London, SW7 2AZ

(London)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

Imperial College London

Topics:

Patient safety

Kate Hooton has worked as a manager in the NHS for 25 years. Prior to her current role, she was the Associate Director for Clinical Governance in the Trust that now forms part of ABHB. In that role she coordinated the Trust’s application and participation in the Health Foundation’s Safer Patients Initiative 2.

Location:

Pontypool, NP4 0YP

(Wales)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Aneurin Bevan Health Board

Topics:

Kevin Stewart, Quality Improvement Fellow

Find out more about Quality Improvement Fellow Kevin Stewart.

Location:

Winchester, SO23 9PW

(South East)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust

Topics:

Learning communities

This initiative focuses on the role of learning communities in incorporating improvement science into quality improvement programmes.

Location:

Dundee, DD1 9SY

(Scotland)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

NHS Tayside

Topics:

Quality improvement

Learning communities

This initiative focuses on the role of learning communities in incorporating improvement science into quality improvement programmes.

Location:

Sheffield, S9 4EU

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

NHS Sheffield

Topics:

Quality improvement

Lesley Anne Smith, Quality Improvement Fellow

Lesley Anne Smith is the Head of Clinical Governance and Risk Management at NHS Highland, which comprises the largest and most sparsely populated part of the UK, representing more than 41% of the land mass of Scotland.

Location:

Inverness, IV2 3HG

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Highland

Topics:

Quality improvement

Liberating sister to lead

This project seeks to improve quality of care by removing the burden of corporate processes on ward sisters, freeing them up to play visible leadership roles on their wards, actively focused on improving all dimensions of quality.

Location:

London, NW1 2PG

(London)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Lilian Wiles, GenerationQ Fellow

Clinician Scientist Fellowships

Lilian Wiles is Continuing Care Assessor for Cheselden Continuing Healthcare Ltd.

Location:

Teddington, TW11 8EE

(London)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Beating Bowel Cancer

Topics:

Lining up: An ethnographic study of interventions to reduce central line infections

Research into the behavioural and cultural reasons that affect the success of major safety interventions designed to reduce central venous catheter blood stream infections.

Location:

Leicester, LE1 7RH

(East Midlands)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

University of Leicester

Topics:

Patient safety, Acute care, Quality improvement

Luke Devey, Clinician Scientist Fellow

Mr Devey’s research relates to transplanted organs, specifically the role of antigen presenting cells and T regulatory cells in ischaemic preconditioning.

Location:

Edinbrugh, EH8 9YL

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

University of Edinburgh

Topics:

Leadership

MAGIC: Shared decision making

MAGIC (Making Good Decisions in Collaboration) is a programme which explores how shared decision making can be embedded into clinical practice as a core part of mainstream health services.

Location:

Cardiff, CF14 7XB

(Wales)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board

Topics:

Person-centred care

MAGIC: Shared decision making

MAGIC (Making Good Decisions in Collaboration) is a programme which explores how shared decision making can be embedded into clinical practice as a core part of mainstream health services.

Location:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE7 7DN

(North East)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Person-centred care, Shared decision making

Manchester Community Health: Nursing home improvement programme

This Shine project involves the case management of nursing home residents in central Manchester, with the aim of reducing admissions to hospital.

Location:

Manchester, M21 7RL

(North West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Manchester Community Health

Topics:

Quality improvement, Older people, Innovation

Mark Brassington, GenerationQ Fellow

Mark Brassington's current role at NUH focuses on ‘Better for you,’ the Trust’s whole hospitals change programme which will enable the consistent delivery of caring, safe and thoughtful treatment to patients. He has an MSc in Healthcare Leadership and Management from Birmingham and Manchester Universities.

Location:

Nottingham, NG5 1PB

(East Midlands)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

Mark Hayes, GenerationQ fellow

Mark Hayes is one of our GenerationQ fellows and is the Clinical Accountable Officer at NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group.

Location:

York, YO23 7EG

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Vale of York Commissioning Group

Topics:

Leadership, Commissioning, Quality improvement

Mark MacGregor, GenerationQ Fellow

Mark MacGregor graduated in medicine and physiology from Glasgow University in 1990, and then trained in general medicine and nephrology, predominantly in the west of Scotland. His clinical and research interests are in the epidemiology and service implications of chronic kidney disease, and in home haemodialysis.

Location:

Ayr, KA6 6DX

(Scotland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

NHS Ayrshire and Arran

Topics:

Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Doing diabetes differently with integrated psychological therapy

The project will comprise a self-contained year long evaluation of the improvement in patient care and reduction in costs. Part of the project will be to establish the viability of outcome-based contracting for a social enterprise company within a health setting.

Location:

MK45 2SD

(East Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Commissioning, Value for money, Quality improvement, Innovation, Long-term conditions

Nigel Sturrock is a Consultant Physician in Diabetes & Endocrinology and Clinical Director, The Directorates of Digestive Disease & Thoracics and Musculoskeletal Neurosciences Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Location:

Nottingham, NG5 1PB

(East Midlands)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

North Bristol NHS Trust: Improving early warning scores in acute surgical wards

This Shine project involves the introduction of training in the use of early warning scores and escalation of care for the deteriorating patient.

Location:

Bristol, BS16 1LE

(South West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

North Bristol NHS Trust

Topics:

Patient safety, Acute care, Quality improvement, Innovation

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: Multidisciplinary review of medication in nursing homes: a clinico-ethical framework

The project aims to reduce the use of medicines unnecessarily (with implications for safety and to avoid wastage) and to involve patients and their families or carers in prescribing decisions. It is also designed to build the evidence about ethical decision making in prescribing.

Location:

NE29 8NH

(North East)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Patient safety, Innovation

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities

This project focuses on achieving better prescribing processes for patients admitted for medical reasons.

Location:

Nottingham, NG5 1PB

(East Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

Patient safety

Optimising care pathways for acute stroke and transient ischaemic attack

This project has two main aims. The first is to improve the quality of urgent care for strokes, by improving the number and accuracy of referrals to urgent care (particularly by ambulance staff), improving the speed of access to urgent care, and raising awareness of best practice. The second is to develop and implement evidence-based care for people who have had mini-strokes.

Location:

Warwick, CV34 4DE

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Warwickshire PCT

Topics:

Acute care,

Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Preparing, optimising and reducing trauma in cardiac operations (PORTICO)

Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships

This project seeks to prepare and optimise patients for cardiac operations and reduce the trauma caused, focusing on older patients.

Location:

CB23 3RE

(East of England)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Primary care, Patient safety, Innovation, Effectiveness

Patient record access: turning it on, sharing the learning

This project will work with practices to create a cultural and attitudinal shift to make record access standard practice.

Location:

Retford, DN22 7SW

(East Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

NHS Alliance

Topics:

Organisational development

Paul Gimson, GenerationQ fellow

Paul Gimson is the Director for Wales at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Location:

London, SE1 7JN

(London)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Topics:

Leadership, Quality improvement

Paul Jarvis, GenerationQ fellow

Paul Jarvis is one of our GenerationQ fellows and Consultant in Emergency Medicine at The Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust in West Yorkshire.

Location:

Halifax, HX3 0PW

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Acute care, Leadership

Paul Settle, GenerationQ fellow

Paul Settle is one of our GenerationQ fellows and Consultant Neonatologist at Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Location:

Bolton, BL4 0JR

(North West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Leadership, Maternity

Paul Smeeton, GenerationQ Fellow

Paul Smeeton joined the NHS in 1986 working in Information Services. In 2003 he won an IM&T leadership award for his work at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. He undertook an MBA in 1996 and The King’s Fund's Senior Management Programme in 2000.

Location:

Nottingham, NG3 6AA

(East Midlands)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Topics:

Quality improvement

Paul Sullivan, Quality Improvement Fellow

Read more about Quality Improvement Fellow Paul Sullivan.

Location:

Manchester, M6 8HD

(North West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Phil Garnett, GenerationQ Fellow

Phil Garnett is GP and Chair of Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) at North Yorkshire and York NHS PCT Scarborough Clinical Commissioning Group.

Location:

Harrogate, HG2 8RE

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

North Yorkshire and York PCT

Topics:

Richard Lee is Regional Director for Southeast Wales which includes the capital city, Cardiff.

Location:

Newport, NP44 7HF

(Wales)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust

Topics:

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust: Developing a safe procedure checklist for the cardiac catheterisation laboratory

The project aims to introduce the use of a standardised checklist prior to each procedure performed in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory (CCL) at the Royal Brompton Hospital, to be used by all members of the CCL team.

Location:

SW3 6NP

(London)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Patient safety, Innovation

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust: My discharge: getting discharge right for someone with dementia

This project aims to ensure that people with dementia stay in hospital for less time than those who do not have dementia. The team is developing a proactive expert case-management model for discharging patients with dementia.

Location:

NW3 2QG

(London)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Mental health, Older people, Innovation

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Pre-operative assessment of patient undergoing elective surgery

This Shine project involves the evaluation of a computer-based system for the pre-operative medical, nursing and social assessment of patients undergoing elective surgery.

Location:

Birmingham, B31 2AP

(West Midlands)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Acute care, Innovation

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Improving outcomes after emergency laparotomy

This project seeks to improve patient outcomes after laparotomy by developing an evidence based quality improvement care bundle known as the ELPQuIC pathway.

Location:

GU2 7XX

(South East)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust

Topics:

Quality improvement, Innovation

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust

This project focuses on creating a safe and reliable system for providing medication for patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Location:

Bath, BA1 3NG

(South West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust

Topics:

Patient safety

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust: Changing the culture around patient safety using multimedia communication strategies

This project seeks to use multimedia approaches to reach different staff groups in different ways, and to raise enthusiasm about learning from safety incidents, in order to promote a real culture of safety.

Location:

BA1 3NG

(South West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust

Topics:

Patient safety, Innovation

Safer handovers across the health economy

A joint team from NHS Bolton and Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are working on a project to improve the handover of information about patients as they move through different stages of care and treatment.

Location:

Bolton, BL1 1PP

(North West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

NHS Bolton

Topics:

Patient safety, Acute care

Seamus Logan trained as a mental health social worker at Queen’s University Belfast. He has worked in a wide variety of locations and roles, including a number of professional social work posts in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, a range of management and team leadership roles and as a commissioner of health and social services.

Location:

Belfast, BT2 8BS

(Northern Ireland)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Health and Social Care Board

Topics:

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Ambulatory haematological cancer service

Shine 2011

The Shine 2011 team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is systematically identifying optimal models of ambulatory care (care that can be delivered on an outpatient basis) delivery that are appropriate for a range of haematological cancer treatments. They hope to reduce length of inpatient stay, minimise delays in treatment delivery, increase bed capacity, and enhance the patient experience.

Location:

Sheffield, S10 2JF

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Innovation

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Using design thinking to improve self-efficacy in spinal cord injury patients

This project will deliver a series of workshops with small groups (around three to four patients per group) to promote design thinking and self-efficacy for patients with spinal cord injuries. These will be delivered over an eight month period, alongside existing therapies, by design researchers from Sheffield Hallam University Art and Design Research Centre.

Location:

S10 2JF

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Person-centred care, Innovation, Long-term conditions

This quality improvement project is working to design an orthostatic hypotension pathway through a combination of co-production and plan, do, study, act (PDSA) methods.

Location:

SK2 7JE

(North West)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Suzie Bailey, GenerationQ Fellow

Suzie was appointed to the new post of Service Improvement Director at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT in October 2009, having previously led the Productivity & Efficiency Programme within the organisation and as a General Manager of a Clinical Care Group.

Location:

Sheffield, S10 2JF

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Tamsin Hooton, GenerationQ fellow

Tamsin Hooton is Director of Acute and Community Commissioning at NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).

Location:

London, SE1 2TZ

(London)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Southwark Health and Social Care

Topics:

The role of peer review in improving hospital quality

This research examined how peer review of hospital services might work and cost to implement in a reconfigured NHS. The research also explored how peer review can assess care integration and the entire patient pathway.

Location:

Oxford, OX1 1NF

(South East)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation

Topics:

Leadership, Commissioning, Value for money, Quality improvement, Organisational development, Effectiveness

Tim Lyttle is a GP and previously worked as Medical Director of Wrexham Local Health Board. He has also founded a number of other organisations and projects including a novel healthcare financing model in South India.

Location:

Oldham, OL8 2PX

(North West)

Type:

Fellows

Organisation:

Hope Citadel Healthcare

Topics:

This project seeks to ensure that a trust’s organisational values are reflected in the day-to-day care it provides, through designing and delivering value-based interviewing as part of its recruitment process.

Location:

Oxford, OX3 9DU

(South East)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust

Topics:

Value-based Reporting and Management at King's College Hospital

Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships

This project is seeking to introduce value-based reporting to inspire a different approach to designing care: defining the value of services using a whole pathway approach, taking into greater account the patient’s experience and outcomes.

Location:

London, SE5 9RS

(London)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Value for money in healthcare – Health Foundation supported research programme at LSE

The Health Foundation is providing support for a three year programme of research into value for money at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The research team will explore how healthcare resources are being spent in the UK and whether this provides value.

Location:

Greater London, WC2A 2AA

(London)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

London School of Economics

Topics:

Value for money, Quality improvement

Value for money in healthcare - Health Foundation supported research programme at Imperial College

The Health Foundation is providing support for three year programme of research into value for money at Imperial College. The research team will explore how healthcare resources are being spent in the UK and whether this provides value.

Location:

Greater London, SW7 2AZ

(London)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

Imperial College London

Topics:

Commissioning, Value for money, Quality improvement,

What is revalidation? In Policy

‘What is revalidation? In Policy’ was an 18-month (2010-2011) primary research study that aimed to explore policy and decision makers’ views of the origins, definitions, and potential purpose of revalidation. It also addressed how revalidation relates to concerns about assuring and promoting patient safety and quality of care.

Location:

Plymouth, PL6 8BU

(South West)

Type:

Research projects

Organisation:

Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry

Topics:

Regulation, Workforce

Every year around the UK 20,000 patients with kidney disease receive dialysis – cleansing the blood by passing it through a machine. This usually takes three-to-four hours at a time, three times a week, either until the patient receives a transplant or for the rest of their life. This project empowers dialysis patients to regain some independence, through training patients and staff to work in partnership to help individuals manage their own care.

Location:

Sheffield, S10 2JF

(Yorkshire and the Humber)

Type:

Improvement projects

Organisation:

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Topics:

Long-term conditions, Self management support