
Play the videos below to hear the cohort 14 Fellows share the projects they completed during the programme.
“Wake me up before you go go - Improving performance with daily sedation holds on ventilated patients"
Lynsey Russell
Senior Charge Nurse, NHS Borders
"Experience-based Improvement: Using appreciative inquiry to test a staffing framework in eight Scottish care homes"
Marie McKerry
Chief Nurse, Care Inspectorate, Scotland
"Redesigning Ward Round Processes at the Oncology Ward"
Henriette Lillelund Hansen
Doctor, Lillebaelt Hospital, Region of Southern Denmark
"Chest x-ray in children admitted with pneumonia: How can we reduce the use?"
Anders Batman Mjelle, Haukeland University Hospital
"Increasing referrals to Hospital at Home in the out of hours period"
Emma Rankin
GP, NHS Lothian
"In-room patient collaborative documentation"
Kristian Bergholt Buhl
Consultant, Odense University Hospital
"Maximisation of Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC)"
Lyndsay Cameron
General Manager, NHS Lothian
"Getting safely home from hospital before noon"
Christine Freel
Senior Nurse, NHS Tayside
"Video consultations in outpatient clinic for brain cancer patients"
Gitte Buhl-Jensen
Neurologist, Herlev Hospital, Denmark
"Improving the scheduling and planning process for Systemic Anti Cancer Treatment (SACT) in the Haematology Day Area"
Rachel Haddock
Quality Management Lead Nurse, NHS Tayside
"Right ‘Line’ at the Right Time: Introducing a nurse led ‘Midline’ service for patients within Cardiology who require prolonged intravenous (IV) therapy or for those with difficult IV access"
Stuart Halliday
Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner, NHS Ayrshire & Arran
"The Trolley Project: Reducing the time it takes for patients to receive their discharge medicines with appropriate information."
Ruth Waters
Principle Pharmacist, NHS Lanarkshire
Author: Claire Kelly Aim: Improve Good Day rating score (1-10, 10 best), as a measure of staff wellbeing and joy in work, of staff in Beechcroft Regional Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit by 2 points by July 2023
Author: Elaine Spalding Aim: To introduce electronic laboratory requesting in 80% of inpatient areas in NHS A&A by August 2023
Author: Hege Harboe-Sjåvik Aim: ECG interpretation time < 10 min for >80% of patients by 15.12.23
Author: Ingebjørg N. Storheim Aim: By providing equal training to all, reduce the proportion of ICU nurses who feels they have not received sufficient training, from 47% to less than 15% by June 2023.
Author: Joe Clarke Aim: To reduce by 50% the length of time from referral to time of first appointment with the Community Paediatric Service in the Western Health and Social Care Trust by the 31st July 2023.
To reduce the number of acute hospital specialist palliative care admissions per patient from the Down area, by 20% from 2018 to 2023
Author: Mahmoud Montasser Aim: Improve decision making process for 30% of infants ≥36 weeks’ gestation admitted (short stay/admission) with signs of respiratory distress in UHW to optimise their respiratory care management by 31st of December 2023.
Author: Marianne Stave Aim: Improve the quality of postoperative handover by standardising the handover process
Author: Marthe Høiland Aim: Establish a rapid assessment team (RAT) by 1st of November 2022. Use SIM to enhance the teams approach to resuscitation.
Author: Sarah Bell Aim: 100% of (new) endometrial cancers have molecular testing performed at diagnosis and in appropriate cases, a supplementary report is added
Author: Sabina Lund Aim: Increase patient’s satisfaction in LUP regarding discharge from 64% to 95% before September 2023 (LUP = National wide survey)