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title: Enabling Quality Improvement Across NHS Trusts
description: An increasing number of healthcare providers are turning to Life QI as their improvement software of choice.
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# Enabling Quality Improvement Across NHS Trusts

NHS trusts are engaging staff, building QI capability, and executing more improvement work using Life QI.

 

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As organisations embark on and progress along their improvement journeys there are many challenges to overcome. Appropriate use of technology can be a powerful enabler in tackling these challenges.

 

Life QI accelerates the improvement journey by enabling capacity development, project execution and informed decision making. Find out why an increasing number of health and social care providers are turning to Life QI as their technology platform of choice.

## Ready to learn more?

Join the webinar to learn how Life QI can help you:

| ✓ | Engaging staff in QI |
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| ✓ | Build improvement skills |
| ✓ | Execute and track improvement projects |

 

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## Challenges in Developing and Scaling Improvement Capability

 

Embedding and sustaining an organisation-wide quality improvement culture and practice, is like any organisational transformation programme - challenging. There are many stages in the journey to having a mature improvement capability with different challenges arising at different stages. In this guide we focus on three key challenges which generally present themselves at all points along the improvement journey.

| ✓ | Engaging staff in QI Successfully harnessing the enthusiasm and vision of staff from across the organisation is a sure-fire way to deliver widespread improvement. It’s often one of the biggest challenges, but the evidence is clear – the most successful QI programmes are driven by a knowledgeable and motivated workforce. Life QI helps to engage staff by: • Providing a consistent approach aligned with trust improvement strategy • Reducing the barrier to entry by keeping QI accessible in one central place • Providing visibility of, and inspiration from, successful QI from elsewhere in the trust Read more > |
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| ✓ | Building improvement skills Developing the right skills at the right levels of the organisation is a crucial component in wide-spread sustainable improvement. Life QI underpins a systematic approach to building skills in the following ways: • Learn by doing with QI tools (e.g. PDSA, SPC charts) • Share best practice projects and examples • Peer-to-peer collaboration • Easily coordinate and manage your training programme Read more > |
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| ✓ | Executing and Tracking QI projects Projects are likely to be at the heart of any successful QI programme. To maximise the chance of success, staff need access to centralised workspace, tools and resources. To maximise the impact, effective tracking, reporting and sharing of improvement is essential. Life QI facilitates this by: • Instilling a consistent approach and the tools to get the job done • Create projects quicker and with greater success • Share, learn and prevent recreating mistakes. • Align activity to trust priorities and track against that • Collate evidence for CQC Read more > |
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## Ready to learn more?

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Case Study - Engaging staff in QI

## Barts Health is building a WeImprove culture

Barts Health NHS Trust is on a mission to put quality improvement at the heart of everything staff do. ‘WeImprove’ was created to give QI its own brand and is used to run events around the trust including training days, conferences and forums – giving thousands of staff the chance to learn about the benefits of QI. In-person and virtual events are complemented by a range of digital channels that share and promote all the fantastic improvements staff work on; including: the WeImprove Twitter account, the WeImprove intranet page, and of course sharing all current and past projects on Life QI – the home of all the WeImprove projects.

![Barts Coaches - resized](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hubfs/Barts%20Coaches%20-%20resized.png "Barts Coaches - resized")

 

Case Study - Building improvement skills

## CNWL empowers staff and increases QI capacity and capability

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) underwent a major revamp of their QI strategy in 2017, kickstarting their improvement programme. The objective was to create a culture of improvement where positive change could be driven from all corners of the organisation. To achieve this, they implemented a robust approach to training staff in QI mindset and approach, using Life QI as a vehicle for that. Since then, QI has spread exponentially in the organisation and improvements delivered across all aspects of care delivery, operations and administration.

![CNWL team photo](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hubfs/CNWL%20team%20photo.png "CNWL team photo")

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Life QI has been a fantastic enabler helping us engage staff, scale up the level of improvement work, and accurately track results across the organisation

![Alison_Butler](https://blog.lifeqisystem.com/hubfs/Alison_Butler.png)

##### Alison Butler

Trust-wide QI Programme Lead, Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust

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Case Study - Executing and tracking improvement

## ELFT use Life QI to drive QI at scale

East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) are well known as a leading improvement focused organisation. They have developed widespread improvement capability across all areas of the trust allowing them to reach and maintain an Outstanding CQC rating.

The Trust uses Life QI to facilitate QI projects across all Directorates, providing consistency of application and complete oversight. This in turn ensures complete and accurate reporting which allows for widespread learning and informed decision making maximising the impact of their improvement work.

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Life QI is a one of a kind project management system for improvement projects. With a click of a button you can view your whole improvement portfolio. Whether you have 1 project or 1000 projects, it can be analysed and responded to with ease.

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##### Forid Alom

Head of Improvement Analytics, East London NHS Foundation Trust

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## Join the webinar to learn how Life QI can help you:

Find out from our experts how you can start your improvement journey today.

 

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