Events

Master Class for Senior Educators - Quality Improvement - how to make it effective?

Overview

An academic series of expert classes mainly held at Deanery House in Bristol on topical and emerging areas of importance in medical education for Postgraduate Medical Education. They are open to HEE Southwest, Postgraduate Medical Educational Teams, Educators in Trusts and GP Trainers. Global and nationally important speakers and subject experts are sought and invited.

Aim

A programme of faculty development for senior educators in the Severn and Peninsula to assist in creating a consistent understanding about current developments and issues affecting medical education.

 

Reasons for offering this Master Class:

All Trusts are undergoing increasing amount of change as they respond to the challenges of increased demands of services and financial pressures. Continually looking at how things can be done differently, more efficiently with limited resources can be daunting.  Taunton and Somerset Trust have committed internal investment to develop their own improvement team to build and grow their capability to deliver change and service development using improvement methodology. Using IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) principles, the team supports services, departments and directorates deliver better, high quality, safe and valued healthcare to patients. This approach has been used at all levels; Foundation Year Trainees projects, reduced waiting lists and enhanced planned theatre booking process. This masterclass  will hopefully give some insight of ‘how it can be done’ locally!

 

Speaker details:

Dr Michael Walburn – Is a Consultant in Anaesthetics at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton.  Having been here for 17 years but for the last 10 has increased involvement in how to influence change in healthcare through leadership roles and a quality improvement approach. Michael became an improvement advisor in 2013, meaning he undertook a course with the institute for Healthcare Improvement in Harvard to learn quality improvement tools, techniques and approach.  Since 2014 Michael has been leading the Improvement Team in Taunton which has grown to 23 full time staff involved in all aspects of change in the hospital.  We have achieved measureable and important successes in improving patient outcomes, improving patient experience and reducing costs….still more to do!

 

Aim of this master class:

To understand how to build and grow a Trust’s capability to deliver change and service development at all levels with successful outcome using improvement methodology and possible development of an improvement team.

 

Objectives: by the end of the master class participants will be able to:

1. Understand the rationale and evidence for taking a quality improvement approach.
2. Understand what a quality improvement approach means – what are the tools and techniques?
3. Discuss examples of QI successes.
4. Consider the ways in which trainees can be more involved in QI, both to enhance the system and to grow their skills.
5. Recognise how you can make a difference in your own department by building improvement science into your routine work. You can make a difference.

  

To book a place please email Severn Education Team. When emailing please confirm the event title and the date you are interested in attending.