Best Improvement in Quality and Safety finalists' showcase

This award recognises teams making measurable improvements to quality and safety of health care

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 1000 Lives Campaign, Public Health Wales, UK

The Welsh 1000 Lives Campaign aimed to save 1000 lives and prevent 50,000 episodes of harm in the Welsh health service between April 2008 and April 2010 by using evidence based interventions to improve patient safety. The proposers claim they achieved this, preventing 1199 deaths. 

Inpatient Diabetes Team, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust set up a multidisciplinary team to perform a “failure-modes-effects” analysis of critical incident reports and patient stories of errors in managing diabetes in the trust. After four months, harm events reduced by 31% and hypoglycaemic episodes fell by 28%

 

Stroke 90:10, NHS North West, UK

 In NHS North West, Stroke 90:10 was a two year project covering 26 hospitals that aimed to turn round the region’s poor performance in care for patients with stroke. They claim compliance improved from 19% to 50% in the intervention sites and from 24% to 44% in the control sites. See entry