Table of contents

BMJ Quality Improvement Programme

• Safe Handover : Safe Patients - The Electronic Handover System (26 February, 2014)

  Alex Till, Hanish Sall, Jonathan Wilkinson
• How complete are our clerkings? A project aimed at improving the quality of medical records by using a standardised proforma. (25 February, 2014)

  Jij Chow, Camille Yvon, Tim Stanger
• Improving communication of inpatient blood transfusion events to GPs (25 February, 2014)

  Timothy Robbins
• Saving the NHS one blood test at a time (21 February, 2014)

  Waqas Akhtar, Yooyun Chung
• Planning ahead: Improving escalation plans before the weekend (21 February, 2014)

  Angeliki Zarkali, Duncan Black, Elizabeth Smee, Anshul Deshraj, Nicholas Smallwood
• Improving the safety of remote site emergency airway management (19 February, 2014)

  Julian Wijesuriya, Jonathan Brand
• Improving drug chart documentation in elective surgical patient admissions. (18 February, 2014)

  Alice Thompson
• Better training, Better care: Medical Procedures Training Initiative (14 February, 2014)

  Rachelle Shafei
• Improving room layouts for venepuncture, cannulation and ABG equipment on surgical wards (7 February, 2014)

  Ryan Pedley, Anna Whitehouse, Sarah Hammond
• Improving waiting time and operational clinic flow in a tertiary diabetes center (5 February, 2014)

  Emily Tse Lin Ho
• Delirium awareness - Improving recognition and management through education and use of a care pathway (4 February, 2014)

  RUBEN TAURO
• Improving hospital weekend handover: a user-centered, standardised approach (4 February, 2014)

  Avi Mehra, Christin Henein
• Improving the management of Acute Kidney Injury in a District General Hospital: Introduction of the DONUT bundle (4 February, 2014)

  Anisha Bhagwanani, Rory Carpenter, Aqeelah Yusuf
• Sharing knowledge, saving time: an online toolbox to aid junior doctors (4 February, 2014)

  James Houston, William Barker, Jonathan Clarke, Ed Mew
• Tonsillectomy discharge information - An improvement in both patient safety and satisfaction (8 January, 2014)

  Alison Carter, Elinor Warner, Andrew Roberton, Xiaxin Liu, Ayeshah Abdul-Hamid, Ravinder Natt, Claire Hopkins
• Bring on the weekend - Improving the quality of junior doctor weekend handover (8 January, 2014)

  Alan George Mackenzie Jardine, Tristan Page, Rob Bethune, Philippa Mourant, Priya Deol, Caitlin Bowden, Mark Dahill, Claudia Mische, Naomi Cornish, Victoria Sanders, Joanne Lee, Rob Bethune
• Pre-operative fasting - a patient centered approach (7 January, 2014)

  Sana Hamid
• Improving weekend handover between junior doctors on medical and surgical wards (3 January, 2014)

  Rob Bethune, Kate Campbell, Alex Rose, Richard Wassall, Catherine Price, Thomas Siese, Roisin Finn, Sean Whitaker
• Improving the use of phlebotomy services in a paediatric inpatient setting (3 January, 2014)

  Jacqueline Pitchforth, Claire Lemer
• Investigating the bundle compliance of IVIG delivery in the Greater Manchester Neuroscience centre (3 January, 2014)

  Neena Patel, Amanda Woodall, David Gow
• Managing human factors in the assembly of the paediatric bronchoscope (3 January, 2014)

  Clair Saxby, Richard Williams
• Patient Satisfaction: Receiving a copy of the GP letter following fracture or elective orthopaedic clinic (13 December, 2013)

  Elizabeth Pinder, S Jefferys, Mark Loeffler
• Early Experience with a Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Quality Improvement Program (10 December, 2013)

  Derek O'Reilly, Rachel Edmiston, Pooja Bijoor, Rahul Deshpande, Nicola de'Liguori Carino, Basil Ammori, David J. Sherlock
• Implementation of a combined Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Treatment Escalation Plan document in a District General Hospital (10 December, 2013)

  Claire Stockdale, Bhavi Trivedi, Ellen Jerome, Samir Salih, Christopher Huntley, Eleanor Cooke, Yolanda Massey, Sophie Mella
• The Variable Rate Intravenous Insulin Infusion Protocol (10 December, 2013)

  Benjamin Collard, Jonathan Sturgeon, Natasha Patel, Shabbar Asharia
• Reducing the risk of needlestick injuries in hospital (6 December, 2013)

  James Denny
• Using routinely collected data to improve immunisation histories (6 December, 2013)

  Luke Allen
• The F.R.I.D.A.Y.S. checklist - Preparing our patients for a safe weekend (29 November, 2013)

  Edward Palmer, Emma Richardson, Hannah Newcombe, Cynthia-Michelle Borg
• The management of ureteric stones in the Accident and Emergency department (29 November, 2013)

  Kirsty Dawson, Lindsay Dawson
• A standardised storage solution for venepuncture/cannulation equipment could save an NHS hospital the equivalent of a whole junior doctor (27 November, 2013)

  Steven Lindley, Ian Robertson
• Improving weekend patient handover (26 November, 2013)

  Catherine Ashton
• Improving adherence to guidelines for extended venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients with colorectal cancer (26 November, 2013)

  Markand Patel, Mark Harris, Ian Tapply, Rob Longman
• Improving the investigation of suspected deep vein thrombosis in the Emergency Department (22 November, 2013)

  Peter Daum
• An implementation program targeted at non-physician, anaesthesia assistants improves the quality of laryngeal mask anaesthesia (20 November, 2013)

  Isabelle Reed, Ellie Walker, Bernd Oliver Rose
• Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis in acute orthopaedic admissions: improving compliance with national guidelines (20 November, 2013)

  Laura Watts, David Grant
• Electronic prescribing: Reducing delay to first dose of antibiotics for patients in intensive care (28 October, 2013)

  Philippa C Matthews, Tri Wangrangsimakul, Mark Borthwick, Clare Williams, Ivor Byren, Douglas Wilkinson
• Improving handovers across a North London Mental Health Trust (28 October, 2013)

  Jennifer Perry, Reena Manghnani, Andrew Sommerlad, George Ikkos
• CSF xanthochromia analysis takes longer following centralisation of the laboratories testing samples - how can we improve the time to result? (28 October, 2013)

  Sean Martin, Melanie Page, Ian Godber, Calum McGregor
• Improving neonatal mortality in an Ethiopian referral hospital (28 October, 2013)

  Crawford Fulton
• Warfarin Management Pathway: A clear and safe algorithm, from admission to discharge. (28 October, 2013)

  Alice Hart-George
• Improving management of patients with hyperemesis (25 October, 2013)

  Jilly Lloyd, Nikki Ramskill, Bhavna Sharma
• Improving the inpatient oncology experience through a new consultant ward round (25 October, 2013)

  Vishal Navani
• Improving the quality of written information available at weekends in a paediatric hospital: the TRANSMIT sheet (24 October, 2013)

  Daniel Hawcutt, Julie Green, Charlotte Durand, Fulya Mehta, Matthew Christopherson, Ian Sinha
• Improving time to antibiotics and implementing the "Sepsis 6" (21 January, 2014)

  Calum McGregor
• Identity cards help patients identify their doctors (21 January, 2014)

  Liana Zucco, Gabrielle Desmond, Bernadette Carpenter