Orthopaedic Rapid Improvement Progamme Newsletter - 2nd editon

In this edition of the Orthopaedic Rapid Improvement Programme Newsletter you will find an update on progress so far, an introduction to the Pathway Clinical Leads, Information on the Hip Fracture Database which is intended to focus attention on hip fracture both locally and nationally, benchmark its care across the country, and use continuous comparative data to create a drive for sustained improvements in clinical standards and cost effectiveness.
You can also find out about the National 18 week Orthopaedic coaching programme which
help organisations review and improve their musculoskeletal pathways to meet and sustain 18
weeks for orthopaedics.
You can also find out more about the Rapid Improvement Programme by clicking here!

Orthopaedic Rapid Improvement Programme

The Orthopaedic Rapid Improvement Programme is part of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement; Delivering Qualityand Value (DQV) team. DQV’s work has been to discover how the top performing healthcare organisations in the NHS deliver the highest quality care with the best resource utilisation.
In this issue, there is a brief explanation of the excellent work undertaken to review and develop the high volume pathways in orthopaedics and also gives progress updates, next steps and
planned events associated with this programme.

Improvements in Orthopaedics and DNA reductions

Two case studies on improvement of services in Orthopaedics (here) and DNA reduction (here) in Doncaster.