Quality Improvement Zone

The aim of medicines reconciliation when patients are admitted to hospital is to ensure that important medicines aren’t stopped and that new medicines are prescribed, with a complete knowledge of what a patient is already taking.(NPSA, Dec 2007)....

AIM :- To increase by 50% the number of frail elderly patients able to safely remain at home with support arrangements put in place in place by the GP Out of Hours Service by March 2018. ​ ​

Aim​ - To increase the agile use of Skype for Business. Increasing the total number of Active Users in NHS Health Scotland from 38.3% to 75% through positive cultural change by January 2018.​

Aim ​ All patients with a hip fracture are admitted to the Orthopaedic Ward within 4 hours of presentation to the Emergency Department (ED) with all Big 6 elements complete by January 2018. ​

Aim: By 31st January 2018, 70% of eligible pregnant women registered at a Health Centre in Perth City will receive an antenatal home visit from the HV at 32 to 34 weeks gestation. ​

AIM :- By December 2018, 75% of prisoners who serve more than 6 months in HMP Perth are registered with a GP practice following a planned liberation where an address is known in Dundee, Angus or Perth localities in order to ensure they continue to...

Aim: By April 2018, 90% of urology cancer patients under the care of four surgeons will have completed a full pre-op assessment prior to admission for elective cancer surgery for either a cystectomy or a nephrectomy procedure.​

AIM: To reduce the DNA rate to less than 20% for young adults (16-25) with Type I Diabetes in one outpatient clinic by 31st Jan 2018.​

Aim: To Reduce the DNA/CNA rate for Prisoners booked to attend outpatient hospital appointments by 10%, from 35% to 25% by January 2018​

The aim of the project is to generate learning on how to facilitate the empowerment of women to move into paid work, and to identify and challenge the structural barriers they face in the labour market.*​

Aim: By December 2017, 95% of patients will have an accurate Needs Assessment Summary and Careplan (NAS), reducing the need for ​Enhanced Engagement (EE) in Ward 10, BGH.​

Promoting and increasing the uptake of Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) places for eligible 2 year olds is one of the 3 key priorities for the Scottish Borders Early Years Group. We started the project in the TD1 area of the Borders which had...

Project Aim: By December 2017, 100% of patients within Urquhart Ward, Biggart Hospital will have an accurate Early Warning Score and Frequency of observations carried out and patients with a NEWS ≥5 will be appropriately escalation to FY2/ANP.

Introduce ERAS for uncomplicated OG cancer resections in GRI leading to a reduction in length of stay by two days by March 2018

Aim​ - 95% of school leavers from our Secondary School will find a positive destination by the end of Oct 2017​ A ‘positive destination’ is the Scottish Government’s National Indicator on the proportion of young people in learning, training or...

Aim: By December 2017, 6 residents will have their continence care reliably assessed, leading to improved and sustained continence care outcomes. ​ (Operational definition of reliably assessed: there is enough information being recorded that...

AIM: To improve the AMRU percentage of Discharges vs Admissions from 49% to 55% by December 2017​

Aim: By February 2018, 90% of patients being discharged from Ward 23a, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, will be provided a printed list of medicines on discharge. ​

AIM: By end of August 2018, in 50% of children’s cases, Social Work will send Legal all the information required to give legal advice on a child’s permanent plan at least 8 full working days before the date of the Substantive Looked After Child...

AIM: To reduce medicine incidents in a (20-30 bed) care home by 50% by 29 January 2018​

AIM : By March 2018, all patients leaving Ward A will have a risk assessment and safety plan that has been developed to minimise harm incidents whilst promote recovery.

To increase Standard Infection Control Precaution compliance with all cleaning episodes carried out between patient operations in the Vanguard theatre, Raigmore Hospital, from 60% to 90% or above by February 2018

AIM: Improve referral to 1st contact booking time of the British Heart Foundation team at NHS Western Isles by 10% through the introduction, adoption and utilisation of new technologies.​

The project aimed to reduce the rate of all PPH (blood loss greater than 1L) within the maternity unit in NHS Fife by 15% by January 2018.