Your ideas
A selection of your ideas for improving the quality of healthcare, submitted at the 2007 NHS Confederation annual conference and our summer reception held at the Wallace Collection Sculpture Garden in July 2007.
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Allowing patients to be greater drivers of change
Allowing patients to be greater drivers of change. Listen and involve more.
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Always talk to the patients/service users
Whatever programme you are engaged in, always talk to the patients/service users
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An integrated healthcare programme
An integrated healthcare programme across several health economies
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A quality improvement project for junior doctors
A quality improvement project with rapid cycle and small changes would be more valuable in junior doctor "competency" assessment than "audit".
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A single point of access for all services
To have a single point of access for all services, both health and social.
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Ask children to become engaged
Following a health information programme - ask children to become engaged.
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Ask clinicians if they've washed their hands
TV adverts, press adverts and celebrities to encourage patients and their families to ask their clinicians if they've washed their hands.
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Challenging doctors to wash their hands
Ensure that management support junior staff when challenging doctors to wash their hands.
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Changing the culture of the grassroots NHS
Changing the culture of the grassroots NHS - less inertia, more focus.
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Clinical audit to include ethnic category
Clinical audit to include ethnic category data collection identifying differential outcomes per ethnic group.
