Sing this to the tune of ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’. Go on you know you want to!!
On the 1st day of Christmas the safety team said to me A pledge to be harm free.
We are all working towards achieving the aims of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme and you can help us achieve this.
http://www.scottishpatientsafetyprogramme.scot.nhs.uk/about-us
On the 2nd day of Christmas the safety team said to me 2 improvement advisors, 2 improvement trainees and a couple of Project Officers to support and guide you to make patient care even safer.
For more information on Patient Safety and Improvement team contact us on ext 34138/34154.
On the 3rd day of Christmas the safety team said to me 3 leaders on a walk round.
There have been 37 leadership walk rounds this year across NHS Dumfries and Galloway. These provide an opportunity for frontline staff to meet with the senior management team and have a structured conversation. This helps to keep leaders in touch with issues for frontline staff that help deliver safe, effective, person centred care and to promote and share areas of good practice.
On the 4th day of Christmas the safety team said to me Get it Right For Every Child with: 4 Early Years work streams.
The early years collaborative aims to make Scotland the best place to grow up. It is the first collaborative of its kind in the world that incorporates health, education and social care. There is a huge amount of work going on across our region to improve the care given to babies, children and families.
Take inspiration from this short video showing how nursery children are becoming involved. http://vimeo.com/102914044
On the 5th day of Christmas the safety team said to me (lets improve handovers with…) 5 Handover questions.
November saw our 1st handover week in NHS D and G. We are the 1st board to focus our improvement work on handovers. We have recognised handover as a priority and for this reason handover has been added to the 9 point of care priorities for DGRI. We are also leading the way for national improvements. Interested? Them please get in touch and
Ask yourself these 5 questions next time you pass over information and see if you can improve the quality of the handover ….
On the 6th day of Christmas the safety team said to me sock it to sepsis! Sepsis 6 saves lives; so can you!
The national sepsis awareness day was promoted in DGRI in September. Craig Stobo (from F.E.A.T) came to talk about his very personal account of sepsis. Both he and his pregnant wife contracted Sepsis, Craig survived but very sadly his wife and child did not. Craig also ‘stole shamelessly’ from NHS D and G the idea of the farthest travelled ‘sock it to sepsis’ socks. Here are some of ours. Any guesses as to where we travelled? A real conversation starter as you can imagine!
On the 7th day of Christmas the safety team said to me 7 improvement programmes.
The patient safety and improvement team support all of these programmes
- We manage the programmes
- provide local learning events
- coach and teach people
- offer support and advice
- link with national teams
- provide monthly reports to drive improvement at ward level
- Provide reports for various management boards.
PHEW! Most importantly we want to remain visible to those providing the care and those working on improvements.
On the 8th day of Christmas the safety team said to me 8 (hundred) ICU days between.
Well we thought we were onto a winner here with ICU having 888 days between a central line blood stream infection. However they are actually even better with 994 days today! Almost at 1000 days!!!! What a fantastic achievement. Well done to all involved!!!!
On the 9th day of Christmas the safety team said to me 9 point of care priorities (plus one).
Surgical site infections Falls
Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections Pressure Ulcers
Sepsis Safer use of medicines
Heart Failure Venous thrombo embolism
Deteriorating patient Handover
Improvement teams have been set up to drive improvement in these areas. If you are interested in any of the above or have some great ideas please contact us and we will put you in contact with the clinical lead.
On the 10th day of Christmas the safety team said to me 10 safety essentials in routine practice.
These are the areas of work that have been the focus since the start of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme in 2008. The trainee improvement advisors have been visiting all areas in DGRI to validate the data around these essentials and have been supporting teams to plan for the future.
11th day of Christmas the safety team said to me 11 local learning events.
In 2014 we provided 11 local learning events …WOW!!!!!! Our team works extremely hard to ensure we inspire, motivate and provide you with the tools to enable you to make improvements for the people you care for.
Feedback has included ‘fantastic event, very well organised’, ‘great to have time out of the ward to focus on improvements’, ‘great day, everyone went away with a game plan and the tools to implement it’.
On the 12th day of Christmas the safety team said to me 12 months of data.
Measuring helps us to understand whether our changes impact on the goal we have set. As an improvement team our goal was to reduce the number of areas in DGRI not reporting data. The results are shown in the run chart below.
We have demonstrated that by increasing the visibility and accessibility of the team we were able to significantly improve. Well done to all areas.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for your hard work and continued support.
Have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
From everyone in the Patient Safety and Improvement Team.
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