This week Vincent Baxter (improvement manager) from the emergency care improvement support team (ECIST) recounts his recent Q Visit to Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, and discusses how flow coaching can be a powerful tool for engaging frontline staff in the quality improvement process. Vincent's blog can also be found in the … Continue reading Flow Coaching – empowering front line staff to make improvements →

This week ECIST had the pleasure of working with Beverley Matthews (transformation associate) with the NHS Horizons team. Beverley is an experienced delivery and quality improvement lead, with a clinical background in nursing. She has written numerous blogs, and has agreed that we can share one with our readership. In this blog Beverly describes how … Continue reading Everyone Can Be A Role Model →

            For this weeks blog Dr Jyothi Nippani (clinical lead) from the emergency care improvement support team (ECIST) interviewed Dr Rajni Mahto (consultant in diabetes & endocrinology) at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust about the introduction of criteria lead discharge (CLD). ECIST would like to thank Dr Mahto for sharing the … Continue reading Criteria Led Discharge (CLD) →

              Sarah Tucker (Mrs) is a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Sarah has developed a triage tool that has been ratified by the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. The tool guides emergency department (ED) or minor injuries (MIU) clinicians through … Continue reading Hand Injury Triage Tool →

              Vincent Baxter (improvement manager) with the emergency care improvement support team (ECIST) describes how collaborative learning is being used to make 'breakthrough' improvements in quality. Midlands frailty focus is a collaborative led by the Midlands Region NHS England and Improvement team, supported by ECIST, that aims to improve … Continue reading Midlands Frailty Focus – A Collaborative →