Heartbeat December 2019

weLearn – Innovation and
improvement from around the Trust
This month saw the finalists of
our annual weLearn QIHD poster
competition come together to share
and showcase their shortlisted posters,
all to be crowned the winner and
get their hands on the grand prize of
£5,000.
From 70 posters submitted, 13 shortlisted
finalists had the opportunity to present
their poster to an audience of their peers
and judges, highlighting how their work
shows good practice, provide quality
improvements, supports innovation,
research or partnership working, and
most importantly how it has resulted in
improvements for patients, relatives and
colleagues.
After almost 500 votes from colleagues
were cast, and weeks of scrutiny under the
watchful eye of our judging panel. This was
made up of:
• Non-Executive Director -
Mick Laverty
• GP - Dr Paramjit Marok
• Chief Operating Officer -
Rachel Barlow
• Chief Information Officer -
Martin Sadler
• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon -
Mr Kanthan Theivendran
Each shortlisted candidate waited with
bated breath to hear the results.
Announcing the results of the staff voted
for ‘People’s Choice Award’ fell to Rachel
Barlow who awarded it to Dr Aftab Fazal
and Dr Naveed Asif for their innovative
approach to developing a new referral
pathway for suspected cancer patients who
present at ED. Presenting the award, Rachel
highlighted how the work had transformed
the pathway for patients who present with
suspected cancer and provided clinical
teams with a referral system they could rely
on to safely progress patients onwards.
Announcing the highly commended runners
up fell to Mick Laverty who awarded Emma
Hibbs for her poster titled ‘Frailty at the
front door’ which highlighted the hard
work of the rapid response therapy service
in supporting frail patients who present
to ED, ensuring that they can provide care
and support at an early stage and reducing
length of stay.
The last highly commended award was
presented by Dr Paramjit Marok to the
paediatric allergy service for their poster
entitled, ‘Nasal Photo Therapy for Difficult
to Manage Perennial and Seasonal Allergic
Rhinitis from a patient and nursing
perspective’.
The winner of the £5,000 grand prize
was announced by Chief Executive, Toby
Lewis and went to Martin Chadderton
for his poster, ‘Using PDSA to improve
sepsis screening’. Announcing the award
Toby said: “Sepsis remains as our number
one quality priority and this poster shows
how we have used the Plan, Do Study Act
principles to transform our sepsis screening
and ultimately improve patient care.”
If you haven’t yet seen the posters, they will
remain on display in the Education Centre
at Sandwell as well as on the digital kiosks
around the Trust, enjoy viewing the posters
and finding out about the great quality
improvement initiatives taking place across
the Trust, and encourage your colleagues to
do so too.
CORPORATE AND GENERAL
NEWS
For more information about the
QIHD poster competition, contact
Preeti Puligari on ext. 3587 or email
preeti.puligari1@nhs.net
Using PDSA to Improve
Sepsis Screening -Winner
A NEW referral pathway for
suspected Cancer patients
presenting to the ED
-People’s Choice Winner
Nasal Photo Therapy for
Difficult to Manage Perennial
and Seasonal Allergic
Rhinitis from a patient and
nursing perspective
-Runner up
Frailty at the Front Door
-Runner up
PReCePT (Prevention of
Cerebral Palsy in Preterm
babies) -Shortlisted
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's
the portable EEG Checklist
-Shortlisted
Improving patient safety
culture in Primary Care
-Shortlisted
Sleep…..is the best medicine
-Shortlisted
The MAP Stop: Facilitating
Difficult Conversations
- A Paediatric Quality
Improvement Project
-Shortlisted
How to facilitate team
mergers with leadership
-Shortlisted
Purple Point -Shortlisted
Say Hello to Me
Initiative: breaking down
communication barriers in
the ED -Shortlisted
Some of this year's weLearn competition winners and runners up. L-R Emma Hibbs - Specialist
Physiotherapist, Martin Chadderton - Acting Head of Improvement and Faye Mathias - Allergy
Nurse
Safe Administration and
Availability of I.M Adrenaline
in treatment of Anaphylaxis
for Paediatric In-Patients
-Shortlisted
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