QIIC - SQE Programme 2019-20 Information Booklet

Organise a team

THE IMPROVEMENT TEAM'S JOURNEY

Identify a topic for

Improvement

 Why is this topic important?

 Has the topic been worked on previously?

 How does this topic fit with the organisations strategic objectives?

Develop an Aim

Statement

Build a Family of

measures

Identify specific

change ideas

Run PDSA tests

The sequence of

improvement

 8-10 people with subject matter knowledge

 Protected meeting time

 Meet every 7-10 days

 Identify a team coach or facilitator

 Engage doctors

 Use data to substantiate the need for improvement

 Prepare a run or control chart on the baseline

 Common or special cause variation?

 Be flexible; learn and adapt

 Identify the system to be improved

 How good? By when?

 Any guidance on issues that could hold the team back?

 Outcome

 Process

 Balancing

 Practical and easy data collection plan

 Team members collect and own the data

 How do you generate new ideas?

 Use the change packages as a starting point

 Discuss which ideas have the best chance of leading to improvements

 What barriers will there be to making improvement?

 Teach the team about the PDSA cycle

 Run tests daily or weekly

 Discuss what was learned

 Did the test confirm your predictions?

 If no, why not?

 What was learned from each PDSA?

 Testing

 Implementing

 Scale-up

 Spread

 Holding the gains

Obtain baseline

data

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