Table of contents

Quality improvement report

• Improving access to primary care: a mixed-methods approach studying a new review appointment system in a Scottish GP practice (25 June, 2021)

  Jay Slater, Salahuddin Malik, Peter Davey, Suzanne Grant
• Twelve-week project to improve medication reconciliation at hospitals in Wellington, New Zealand (14 June, 2021)

  Philip Merrow Dabrowski, Kathryn Lawrie
• Promoting social emotional development during the paediatric well-child visit: a demonstration project (11 June, 2021)

  Meghan L Johnson, Sue Butts-Dion, Meera Menon, Kelly Edwards, Scott D Berns
• Reducing emergency department visits in patients with deep vein thrombosis: introducing a standardised outpatient treatment pathway (11 June, 2021)

  Tony Wan, Anna Rahmani, Michaela Hanakova, Hing Yi Wong, Glenyth Caragata, Emily S Ross, Oluwadamilola Akinyemi
• Managing high frequency users of an electronic consultation system in primary care: a quality improvement project (10 June, 2021)

  Katherine Leung, Saffan Qureshi
• Optimising the measurement of blood glucose and cholesterol in patients who had an acute stroke: a quality improvement project (4 June, 2021)

  Ayesha Rehan Khan, Shruti Dorai, Yaseen Serry
• Development and evaluation of an online medication safety module for medical students at a rural teaching hospital: the Winchester District Memorial Hospital (28 May, 2021)

  Ali Elbeddini, Yasamin Tayefehchamani
• Promoting subglottic secretion drainage: a quality improvement project in a UK critical care unit (26 May, 2021)

  Nicholas Weston Smith, Michael Spivey
• Value improvement at the point of care: engaging and empowering front-line teams with a new quality improvement methodology (26 May, 2021)

  Poonam Gupta, Gracy Chacko, Paul Mavin, Ian McDonald, Mawahib El Hassan, Emad Omari, Azhar Ali, Raana Siddiqui, Needa Khan, Lisa McKenzie, Tricia Bolender, William Andrews
• Building the barricade—DIY slit lamp breath shield (25 May, 2021)

  Clara Hoi Ka Wu, Zakariya Jarrar, Steven Harsum
• Increasing patient flow through neurosurgical critical care: the Leeds Improvement Method (25 May, 2021)

  James Meacock, Soumya Mukherjee, Asim Sheikh
• Electronic alerts for acute kidney injury across primary and secondary care (10 May, 2021)

  Joseph Barker, Karl Smith-Byrne, Oliver Sayers, Krishan Joseph, Mark Sleeman, Daniel Lasserson, Emma Vaux
• Development and rapid rollout of The QUiPP App Toolkit for women who arrive in threatened preterm labour (6 May, 2021)

  Naomi Carlisle, Helena A Watson, Andrew H Shennan
• Improving rib fracture management in Morriston hospital: using QI to develop an erector spinae plane catheter service (6 May, 2021)

  Tom Rees, Arthur Ee
• Systematic depression and anxiety screening for patients and caregivers: implementation and process improvement in a cystic fibrosis clinic (3 May, 2021)

  Danielle Marie Goetz, Carla Frederick, Adrienne Savant, Alex Cogswell, Lynne Fries, Christine Roach, Nicole Shea, Drucy Borowitz, Beth Smith
• Implementation of an organ space infection prevention bundle reduces the rate of organ space infection after elective colorectal surgery (3 May, 2021)

  Ian Faragher, Nicole Tham, Michael Hong, Stephen Guy, Justin Yeung
• Grass-roots junior doctor communication network in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a service evaluation (3 May, 2021)

  Arun Sivananthan, Matthew Machin, Geiske Zijlstra, Alexander Harris, Shiva T Radhakrishnan, Peter Crook, Georgina Phillips, Max Christopher Denning, Nisha Patel, Georgina Russell, Ara Darzi, James Kinross, Ruth Brown
• Project Console: a quality improvement initiative for neonatal abstinence syndrome in a children’s hospital level IV neonatal intensive care unit (3 May, 2021)

  Kathryn L Ponder, Charles Egesdal, Joanne Kuller, Priscilla Joe
• Improving access to epilepsy care for homeless patients in the Dublin Inner City: a collaborative quality improvement project joining hospital and community care (29 April, 2021)

  Elisabeth Doran, Enda Barron, Laura Healy, Lorraine O'Connor, Cara Synnott, Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, Colin P Doherty
• Reducing time to X-ray in emergency department ambulatory patients: a quality improvement project (29 April, 2021)

  Matthew Mo Kin Kwok, Allison Chiu, James Chia, Cindy Hansen
• Revolutionising rapid recovery: a quality improvement project in hip and knee replacement (20 April, 2021)

  Rebekah J Parkes, Olusegun Ayeko, Luke Brunton, William Griffiths-Jones, Zsolt Ungvari, Henry Goss
• Developing the COVID-19 intensive care medical equipment distribution platform: outcomes and lessons learned (13 April, 2021)

  Emmanuel Adeoluwa Akinluyi, David Stell, Nayanee Perera, Christopher Sibley-Allen
• Effect of a multimethod quality improvement intervention on antipsychotic medication use among residents of long-term care (12 April, 2021)

  Heather M Hanson, Tova Léveillé, Mollie Cole, Lesley JJ Soril, Fiona Clement, Adrian Wagg, James Silvius
• Improving mealtimes for patients and staff within an eating disorder unit: understanding of the problem and first intervention during the pandemic—an initial report (5 April, 2021)

  Lucy Gardner, Hayley Trueman