The Trust’s second cohort of Clinical Quality Academy improvers officially launched their improvement projects last week when the first session took place at Blackpool Conference and Exhibition Centre.
Ten clinically-led teams from across all areas of the Trust will take part in a series of sessions learning the key principles of improvement science from improvement scientists’ academic experts and thought leaders and work collaboratively with other teams in order to achieve their aim.
Last Friday’s session was delivered by Brandon Bennett, Improvement Advisor for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the United States.
The teams are as follows
| Medical Lead | Project
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| Dr Amina Farooq, Acute Medicine Consultant
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Calculating Well’s score in cases of suspected VTE / DVT before performing d-dimer on AMU |
| Dr Will Simpson, Consultant Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist, Head of Department
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Cardiac Theatres – a redesign of the service with the needs of patients in mind with the aim of supporting and integrating services across departments to provide high quality, timely care to patients |
| Mr Amal Bose, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Head of Department
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Tertiary Services Surgical Pathway – redesign of service and understand the reasons for delays |
| Dr Heather Catt, Public Health Consultant
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Long-term emotional and physical health of an individual |
| Dr Reham Ahmed, SAS Doctor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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Breech Antenatal Clinic – to reduce the number of avoidable c-sections but developing an ECV clinic |
| Mr Alex Blackmore, Consultant Surgeon, Head of Department
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Retrospective analysis undertaken for patients treated for unexplained retroperitoneal/abdominal pain in the Emergency Department |
| Mr Ziauddin Khan, Consultant Urologist
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Safe Urethral Catheterisation to decrease patient morbidity and cost of care |
| Dr Tina Dwivedi, Sexual Health and Reproductive Health Consultant
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Improving services for non-English speaking patients |
| Dr Jonas Eichhofer, Consultant Cardiologist and Chief Clinical Information Officer
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Improving the outpatient service for Cardiac Patients |
| Mr Ken Wong, Consultant Cardiologist
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Reduce Hospitalisation in acute Heart Failure Patients and reduce echocardiography waiting list |
| Dr Sunita Avinash, Consultant Cardiologist
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Optimising Cardiac Cath Lab Utilisation |