Leeds Mental Health Lunchtime Forum

The Leeds Mental Health Lunchtime Forum is being held on Thursday 22nd January 2009, 12.00-1.00pm at Touchstone Support Centre, 53-55 Harehills Avenue LS8 4EX
The discussion topic will be:
Suicide Prevention
What is happening around suicide prevention in Leeds and what more needs to be done?
Analysis of an audit of suicides in Leeds – what do the statistics tell us?
Presented by: Mike Bush – Leeds mental health campaigner with a special interest in suicide prevention and Dr Sophie Egerton - Leeds PCT Public Health.
To join the mailing list for the forum please email info@imhleedsmind.org.uk

Examples from the Productive Ward

Patients at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) are benefiting from an obvious and demonstrable improvement in care as a result of ward teams’ implementation of a structured and targeted improvement programme. The work focuses on improving processes and environments by changing behaviour and culture to help nurses and therapists spend more time on patient care thereby improving safety and efficiency. The work uses a combination of lean methodology developed in manufacturing, and social marketing which uses marketing principles to influence behaviour change and have a long term impact on organisational culture. See some real examples of this work from LTHT here. These slides were first presented at the January session of the Service Redesign Network, find out more about the network here.

National QOF Consultations Get Underway

The first of the national QOF consultations organised by NHS PCC on behalf of the Department of Health took place in London this week. Dr David Colin-Thomé, national director for primary care opened the proceedings with a confident assessment of the future development of the QOF as NICE prepares to take on the role of developing clinical indicators to increase the framework's effectiveness in improving health outcomes. Presentations from the event are available here. A full report on this and the event taking place this week in Leeds will be available in the next issue of the PCC Newsletter.

Delivering Effective End-Of-Life Care

Listen to the panel discussion and download presentations from the recent Kings Fund one-day conference on end-of-life care here.

Live Online Lecture on Dysphagia and Nutritional Intake - Friday 31st October

On Friday 31st October at 2pm Cancer Nursing. Org, will be presenting a live lecture on 'Dysphagia and Nutritional Intake'.

This presentation will explore dysphagia and how to address the eating and nutritional intake difficulties encountered by sufferers. In particular there will be a special focus on the utilisation of food and fluid thickeners, and how to present meals for improved intake.

Click here for further information.

IHI - Quality and Safety in Healthcare International Forum

This international forum took place in Paris last week and was attended by over 2000 delegates from around the world. There is a web broadcast, which has been sponsored by the NHS Institute, free to view online, showing all the plenary sessions for continued learning. They are posting video and audio broadcasts daily from the conference, and access to PowerPoint presentations from the 2008 speakers. Access is free, but you need to register which only takes a couple of minutes.

Health Care Reinvented: Discussions with Don Berwick

Which way forward for the quality improvement and patient safety movements? Join IHI’s President and CEO, Donald Berwick, MD, for a series of conversations with IHI Director of Communications, Madge Kaplan. Each monthly installment offers Dr. Berwick’s latest thinking on the major issues of the day and how health care professionals, health care leaders, and patients and families can bring about significant reform.

The Right Treatment for the Right Patient Every Time – Applying Reliability Science to Health Care

This 62-minute streaming video presentation features Dr. Roger Resar, IHI Senior Fellow and formerly Change Agent for the Mayo Health System, discussing the application of reliability science to health care. Reliability science provides a way to examine a multi-component process and increase the probability that the system will perform its intended function in the required time under commonly occurring conditions. The challenge for health care is to put this theoretical construct into practice. This is the subject of Dr. Resar’s presentation. Access the presentation here. You will need to register on the IHI website to access the presentation.

Effective Teamwork as a Care Strategy - SBAR and Other Tools for Improving Communication Between Caregivers

Through this 49-minute streaming video presentation, led by expert faculty, Michael Leonard, MD, you will understand and implement the SBAR approach and other tools and behaviors for effective teamwork and communication to help ensure clear, accurate information between caregivers. Access the presentation here. You will need to register on the IHI website to access this presentation.

Getting Started on Flow

This On Demand presentation will help participants understand how patient flow affects safety, staff satisfaction, and patient outcomes. Participants will learn how to assess patient flow and identify improvement opportunities within their hospitals. Access the presentation here. You will need to register on the IHI website to access the presentation.

An Introduction to the Model for Improvement

A third IHI On Demand presentation featuring IHI’s Executive Director of Performance Improvement, Robert Lloyd, PhD. This presentation builds on a foundation of applied science, focusing on how three key questions can help drive your quality improvement work: what are we trying to accomplish?, how will we know that a change is an improvement?, what change can we make that will result in improvement? Access the presentation here. You will need to register with the IHI website to access the presentation.

Building Skills in Data Collection and Understanding Variation

This IHI On Demand presentation, featuring IHI’s Executive Director of Performance Improvement, Robert Lloyd, PhD, is designed to help teams successfully manage the milestones along the quality measurement journey. Access the presentation here . You will need to register on the IHI website before you can access the presentation.

Using Run and Control Charts to Understand Variation

This is an On Demand presentation, offered by IHI, featuring their Executive Director of Performance Improvement, Robert Lloyd, PhD. Dr. Lloyd’s presentation will review two fundamental tools for understanding variation — the run chart and Shewhart control charts. Access the presentation here. You will need to register on the IHI website to access the presentation.

New Dignity podcast

This 18 minute video podcast looks at the importance of leadership, at all levels in organisations, in making sure that Dignity is at the heart of care. Access the podcast here.

New Joint Strategic Needs Assessment podcast

This 11 minute video podcast is one of a series to help commissioners understand the changing landscape of health and local authority commissioning to meet local population needs. Access the podcast here.

Don Berwick's Eating Soup with a Fork

In this December 2007 National Forum keynote speech, Don Berwick (President and Chief Executive, Institute for Healthcare Innovation [IHI]) examines the role of evidence and the importance of context in promoting improvement. The way ahead, he says, requires both. Watch the free download here.