Academy Participants Projects from
Primary Care
Quality Improvement
Cohort 1
Sheena Borthwick
Cohort 3
Isla Muir- (Liberton) Embedding QI into Everyday Practice
Alisson Stewart - (Tranent Health Centre) Provide an appointment system that meets the needs of the Practice population and prioritises the patients with the greatest need.
Cohort 4
Ian Bruce - (Tranent Health Centre) Review Appropriateness of GP & NP Appointment Use
Cohort 5
Julie McCaskey - Prestonpans - Improve the quality of the testing process for urine samples within Prestonpans Group Practice
Val Thomson - North Berwick - Results Handling
Cohort 6
Wendy Knottenbelt - Gullane Medical Practice - Prescription Requests
Mandy Canning - Improving Vaccine Handling & Storage in GP Practices
Adeline Tan - Redesign Telephone Referral form for MERRIT
Cohort 8
Cohort 10
Sue Perkins (Waverley Gate) - Improving Access to Cardiovascular Risk Treatment, Management and Advice
Victoria Soblewska - Who’s Looking after the Boarders?
Cohort 11
Elise O’Leary (Waverley Gate) - Increasing Hepatitis C Testing
Cohort 12
Michelle Downer (Blackhall Medical Practice) - Improve the Quality of KIS information for Housebound patients.
Leona Carroll ( Dalhousie Medical Practice) - How many GPs are Too Many?
Andrew Clarke & Gareth Fitzgerald (Pennywell All Care Centre) - Ensuring optimum care in high strength ICS use
Cohort 13
Gillian Anderson, Louise Crawford & Leigh Proudfoot (Craigmillar Medical Group) - Think Different, think patient
Sarah Lynch (St. Triduanas) - Reducing Stress/Workload in Duty Doctors
Cohort 14
Colin Anderson- (East Lothian Community Hospital) National Spinal Unit Patients Annual Renal Function Surveillance in Primary Care Radiology
Cohort 15
Dervilla Bray (Edinburgh HSCP) - Releasing GP time through the implementation of the pharmacotherapy element of the new GP Contract
Leonie Hunter (Tranent Medical Practice) - Understanding Patient Activation in Primary Care
Cohort 16
Louise Bailey (St Triduana’s Medical Practice) - To identify and reliably treat patients with Type 2 diabetes requiring second line medication in primary care setting
Marjory Brisbane & Leona Jackson (Strathbrock Partnership Centre) - Mail Management Improvements in Primary Care – making better use of admin staff to lighten the GP workload
Nicola Duffy (Newlands Medical Practice) -Safe prescribing of analgesics in Primary care
Natalie Wood & Louise Matthews (Pathhead Medical Centre) - Effective Care navigation in Pathhead Medical Centre
James Park (Bonnyrigg Health Centre) - Reduce waiting times and increase throughput for child referrals to Midlothian CLDN Service
Karen Reid & Sharon Stewart (Allermuir Health Centre/Wester Hailes Medical Practice) - To understand and explore the current process for managing acute and acute on chronic pain in adults at Wester Hailes and identify areas requiring improvement.
Cohort 17
Mike Hart (Craigshill Health Centre) - Improving use of capacity and effectiveness of appointing to GP Advanced Physiotherapy (GP AAP) service at a GP practice
Karin Innes (Craigmillar Medical Practice) - Identification of DNAs for Urgent Suspicion of Cancer (USOC) Referrals from General Practice
Planning for Quality
Cohort 1
James McCallum - (Bathgate Primary Care Centre) Patient focussed discharge dispensing (Frail old people don't hang around in pharmacies)
Cohort 2
Eddie Balfour - (Leith Community Treatment Centre) Neuropathic Pain & the Prescription of Gabapentinoids
John Hardman - (Dunbar Medical Practice) Better Management of regular attendees in Primary Care
Joanna Smail, Andrew MacKay, Hamish Reid & Murray Roddin - Prescribing in Primary Care
Robin Balfour - (Murrayfield Medical Centre) Directing Docman
Cohort 3
Jeremy Chowings - (Leith Surgery) Improving the flow of important information through practice
Elaine Duncan - (Craigshill Health Centre) Frequent Attenders in Primary Care
David Hood - Plan to reduce delayed discharge waits for patients in North West Edinburgh Locality
Cohort 4
Lynda Wilson (Newton Port (Tyne) Practice) & Shelagh Stewart (Prestonpans Health Centre) - Improving Workflow Management in General Practice
Allister Short (Fairfield House) - Understanding and Addressing Delayed Discharge in Midlothian
Cohort 5
David Boag (St Leonards Medical Centre) - Improving identification and management of Housebound patient through improving ACP/KIS
Jane Marshall (Boroughloch Medical Centre) - Multidisciplinary Polypharmacy Reviews of Care Home Residents
Cohort 6
Anthony Simon (Craigmillar Medical Group) - Prescription Headache
Sam Abushal (Whinpark Medical Practice) - Will rationalising medication for the frail patients at Whinpark Medical practice reduce admissions
Cohort 7
Drummond Begg (Penicuik Medical Centre) - Hypertension monitoring and management in primary care
Julia Lutte (Penicuik Medical Centre) - Document Workflow Optimisation in Primary Care: Seeing the important stuff
Guy Dixon (Craigmillar Medical Practice) - Missed Blood Tests in Primary Care
Iain Morrison (Newbattle Medical Practice) - A new model of care for frailty in Midlothian
Andreas Kelch (Kingsgate Medical Practice) - Mail Management Improvement to Enchance Practice Resilience
Cohort 9
Megan Lanigan (S&V - Waverley Gate) - Primary Care prescribing efficiency planning
Cohort 10
Paul Bailey (Newbattle Medical Practice) - Improving the handling of eConsult Admin requests
Carl Bickler (Craigmillar Medical Group) - Reducing the number, and the risk to patients , of uncollected prescriptions from an Edinburgh General Practice
Sue Perkins (Waverley Gate) -Taking the strain out of chronic pain
Orla Prowse (Pennywell All Care Centre) - Improving EHSCP Locality Hub’s ability to support hospital discharges
Angus Walls (Lauriston Building) - Achieving early registration with a primary care dentist in children under 12-months
Virtual Quality Improvement Skills Course
Cohort 1
Sarah Bennie in collaboration with Barclay East Craigs Medical Practice - Nature Prescribing
Cohort 5
Rowan Calloway - Medication review project Part 1: Safety and Efficiency
Emer Krievs & Jenny Mulvey - Implementing Osteoarthritis NICE Guidelines into Primary Care for patients with knee OA
Cohort 6
Geoff Smith - Clinical Risk Register
Cohort 7
Katy Cox & Vicky Graham - Improving Orthoarthritis (OA) of the Knee Patient Experience in Primary Care
Cohort 9
Amanda Robertson - CWIC (Care When it Counts) Primary Care Mental Health
Cohort 12
Valerie Munro - Robust induction to support staff retention
Cohort 15
Elaine Anderson - Improve patient care and efficiency of practice processes for patients prescribed HRT in a GP Practice