Chief Executive’s Message – Friday 25 March

March 25, 2022

It was fantastic to take part in the ceremony on Tuesday to announce the winners and runners up in our annual Quality Improvement Half Day Poster Contest. 76 posters were submitted that all demonstrated quality improvement, many of these using innovative techniques to improve outcomes including patient care, experience and safety. It is clear to see that quality improvement is alive and well in our Trust and I am delighted that we celebrate your achievements in this way. The QIHD Poster Contest is a great way that we share learning across our organisation as part of the welearn programme.

Congratulations to our overall winner, Roanna Burgess from PCCT’s Musculoskeletal Service for her quality improvement project “MSK Equity: Evaluating quality using technology”. The winner of the popular vote was Anita Kaur from the Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology for “Improving Healthcare for People with Diabetes”. Highly Commended were the obstetric team for use of scales and ROTEM to improve maternal outcomes during major obstetric haemorrhage, and the neonatal team for their vital sepsis improvement approach for neonates. £5,000 is awarded to Roanna’s team, with £500 for the other runners up.

A quality improvement philosophy forms a vital part of our new strategy, underpinning the fundamentals of care programme which is the enabler to our first strategic objective – “Patients – to be good or outstanding at everything we do”. This begins with getting the basics right every time, learning from areas that do well, and continuing to develop how we provide care so that the quality of care and patients’ experiences are better today than yesterday.  That programme will launch shortly and we need every colleague to engage in it.  More of this to come in future Friday Messages.

You can see all of the QIHD posters here and they will be visible as posters across the Trust also. Do take a look and see what you could learn from these excellent examples of quality improvement. And also, take the time to consider what you could enter in this year’s contest!

Have a great weekend.

Richard