TY - JOUR T1 - Power of daily huddles in COVID-19 pandemic: a QI initiative JF - BMJ Open Quality JO - BMJ Open Qual DO - 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001839 VL - 11 IS - Suppl 1 SP - e001839 AU - Manju Puri AU - Swati Agrawal AU - Reena Yadav AU - Deepika Meena AU - Nishtha Jaiswal AU - Shilpi Nain Y1 - 2022/06/01 UR - http://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/11/Suppl_1/e001839.abstract N2 - India is experiencing the third wave of COVID-19 presently, with an exponential rise in the number of cases. This has been attributed to the high infectivity of the Omicron variant, whose R-naught is 2.69, which means every 100 infected people can spread the infection to 269 people.1 Although the hospitalisation rates are much lower with this variant, it has the potential to overwhelm the healthcare infrastructure of the country. Each wave is unique and by the time we understand the dynamics of the new variant, the peak is past. In this ongoing pandemic, there is an urgent need for being in a state of preparedness and have a mechanism of rapid review and assessment of the impact of new variant and prompt response to minimise the damage to both the patients and healthcare workers (HCWs). In heavy load public facilities such as ours, which manages about 13 000 deliveries per annum, regular daily feedback, effective communication and dissemination of change ideas is a challenge. The authors wish to share their experience of one powerful strategy, ‘daily huddle’, which helped them sail through the first two waves of COVID-19 and is helping in managing the third wave too.A huddle is a brief, regularly recurring meeting (usually not more than 15 min) that is usually scheduled once at the start of each workday in a clinical setting. It provides a forum for front-line personnel to share safety concerns, develop plans and celebrate successes with the administrative heads.2 The problems can be flagged and change ideas aimed at improvement in the system can be identified … ER -