David Oliver (consultant in geriatrics and acute medicine) discusses the complexity that surrounds social care provision. Thank you to David for allowing ECIST to share this article which was first published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on January 8th 2019. Follow David on twitter @mancunianmedic   David … Continue reading The drama of navigating social care →

Rick Strang (transformation advisor, emergency care) at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust describes an innovative approach to improving patient care and the working lives of staff. Follow Rick on twitter @rickstrang    After a period of relatively high intensity working our emergency department (ED) performance had fallen and delays for beds had grown significantly. In … Continue reading Friday Discharge Marketplace →

Yvonne Blücher (manager director) from Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust shares her blog marking the start of the trusts week of action to ensure patients leave hospital as soon as they are fit to do so. This week the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST) have been working with Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation … Continue reading Valuing our patients’ time →

              Kelly McCutcheon Adams (Senior Director) from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) discusses how the IHI Breakthrough Series (BTS) Model can be used to accelerate the spread of improvements across multiple settings.   What do reducing sepsis mortality in Australia, reducing neonatal mortality in India, improving care for nursing home … Continue reading Accelerating Improvement and Spread with the IHI Breakthrough Series Model →

James Owen (senior business analyst) at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust discusses the power of why when it comes to decision making.   Why? A powerful question. Why am I here? I work in the NHS because whilst volunteering in a nunnery in the Syrian city of Aleppo I saw kind, caring, people looking after … Continue reading The Power of Why →