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| Glencoe from the Devil's Staircase |
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| Looking down towards Kinlochleven |
Just back from walking the West Highland Way and Ben Nevis during a of annual leave: stunning scenery, here are a couple of photos.
Before leaving, I attended a one day course held by NES on 'Quality Improvement Training' at the Campanile Hotel in Glasgow. This course was a joint meeting for hospital and GP trainees which was designed to give an introduction and starting platform for developing new quality improvement projects. The course covered a lot of the theory of quality improvement, with the morning focusing on leadership skills and the afternoon spend discussing practical methods used to undertake projects such as criterion based audit, care bundles and PDSA (plan, do, study, act) cycles.
Some of the theory was revision of material which I had covered before but it was much more in-depth and added more understanding. The plan for all of the doctors who attended this course to use the skills learnt to carry out an improvement project over the coming months in their place of work, and then to write-up the findings for submission to the BMJ's Quality Improvement Journal which I intend to do in the summer. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone interested in learning about QI methodology - here is the website link for further information. In addition here are some links to further QI resources which may be of interest.
BMJ Quality Improvement Website: http://quality.bmj.com
Quality Improvement Hub for NHS Scotland: http://www.qihub.scot.nhs.uk/default.aspx
Institute of Healthcare Improvement: http://www.ihi.org/Pages/default.aspx
Scottish Patient Safety Programme: http://www.scottishpatientsafetyprogramme.scot.nhs.uk/programme
