Time for Care Quality Improvement for General Practice Nurses
Time for Care Quality Improvement for General Practice Nurses is a two day programme designed for all nurses working in general practice across North West and North East England.Time for Care learning in action programme
The Time for Care programme is at the heart of the General Practice Forward View's support for practices to redesign their care and manage demand more sustainably. Using a variety of means this initiative provided by the NHS England Sustainable Improvement team will give every practice in England the chance to learn about proven innovations that release time for care.Productive General Practice Quick Start
Productive General Practice (PGP) Quick Start is an on-site, hands-on, short term support package for practices that forms part of a local Time for Care programme. Alongside the 10 High Impact Actions the support package provided by NHS England’s Sustainable Improvement team aims to help practices release time for care and build improvement capability.Life QI
The Life QI online platform is a project and programme management tool for quality improvement, using quality improvement approaches and techniques.Quality Improvement Project (QIP) Guidance for GP Trainees
The RCGP has produced this guidance for GP Trainees completing a Quality Improvement Project (QIP) as part of their training.Atrial fibrillation toolkit
This interactive toolkit aims to help healthcare professionals to improve the detection and treatment of people with Atrial Fibrillation.A ten point action plan for General Practice Nursing
The ten point action plan for General Practice Nursing brings together key actions which aim to meet general practice workforce challenges by attracting new recruits, supporting existing GPNs and encouraging return to practice.Reporting and Learning from patient safety incidents in general practice
The purpose of this guide is to: • maximise opportunities to learn from patient safety incidents in your practice, and to share learning via organisational or national reporting systems • outline a process for learning from patient safety incidents in your practice. Where appropriate, this guide will signpost existing well-written resources and does not seek to replicate their content.QI Ready eLearning modules
The RCGP has produced eLearning modules to compliment the QI Ready network and self-accreditation process. There are a suite of three modules that will assist you in better understanding quality improvement methodologies.Quality Improvement Hub
The Quality Improvement Hub website provides a range of resources to support organisations to improve the quality of healthcare in Scotland. The tools provided here can support you in your improvement work.Examples of driver diagrams
These examples of driver diagrams from NHS East London Foundation Trust provide an example of what your driver diagrams could look like.Driver diagram template
A driver diagram illustrates a ‘theory of change’, that can be used to plan improvement project activities. This technique provides a way of systematically laying out aspects of an improvement project so they can be discussed and agreed on collaboratively by the project team.RCGP Quick guide: Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) approach
This RCGP Quick guide introduces the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) approach, a technique that allows you to test out improvements in a controlled way so that change can occur gradually, with an awareness of unintended consequences.RCGP Quick guide: Theory of Constraints and Flow
This RCGP Quick guide introduces the theory of constraints and flow, a methodology for identifying the most significant limiting factor – the constraint – which stands in the way of the organisation's goal being met.RCGP Quick guide: Measurement and Analysis
This RCGP Quick guide explains how measurement and analysis can tell us what we need to improve, then, once we’ve started to make changes, it can tell us if our efforts are making a difference.RCGP Quick guide: Driver Diagrams
This RCGP Quick guide introduces driver diagrams, a tool to help you to organise your improvements in a logical way, so that everyone involved can see how the planned changes will lead to the desired improvement.RCGP Quick guide: Communication Matrix
This RCGP Quick guide introduces the communication matrix, a systematic way of identifying members of the team and the themes they need to know in carrying out your improvement work.RCGP Quick guide: Gantt Charts
This RCGP Quick guide introduces Gantt charts, a tool that provides a visual representation of your project schedule which helps to identify a realistic timeframe for implementing a project.RCGP Quick guide: Run charts
This RCGP Quick guide introduces Run charts, a tool that allows practices to analyse data, with minimum use of statistical methods, and helps determine if an improvement has been made.RCGP Quick guide: Model for improvement
The model for improvement ensures that you and your team are very clear and specific about what you want to improve and how you will know if you have been successful.Whitedboard video: Model for Improvement
In these videos Dr Robert Lloyd from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement introduces the Model for Improvement, a tool that ensures that you and your team are very clear and specific about what you want to improve and how you will know if you have been successful.Multi practice quality improvement project plan
This Excel spreadsheet tool will help you to plan and monitor the progress of your quality improvement project across several practices.Model for improvement for diabetes
Do you want to introduce a change to improve diabetes care? If so, the model for improvement for diabetes allows you to plan and test the change.QI Ready self-accreditation
QI Ready is a self approval tool to assist you in better understanding quality improvement methodologies. It offers clear examples of QI in practice and will help you to improve your knowledge and skills in this field.Six principles for engaging people and communities: Definitions, evaluation and measurement
This document is about creating person-centred, community-focussed approaches to health, wellbeing and care. It builds on the proposed new relationship with people and communities set out in the NHS Five Year Forward ViewImproving the quality of cancer care in primary care
This toolkit developed by Macmillan Cancer Support aims to support the primary care professionals to develop initiatives and programmes which have a positive impact on the care of people daiagnosed with cancer, their families and carers.Experience-based co-design toolkit
This toolkit published by the King's Fund gives a step-by-step guide to improving patient experience of health care using a technique called experience-based co-design.Whitedboard video: PDSA cycles
In these videos Dr Robert Lloyd from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement introduces the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) approach, a technique that allows change to be introduced in a considered way but on a small and manageable scale, measuring the ‘before’ and ‘after’ effects of each change, and provides evidence to assist in maintaining the changes that work.
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