Quality Improvement

Cohort 1

Julie Blackwood & Alistair Roberts - Improving communication with CAMHS inpatients and their families and carers.

Craig Stenhouse - Physical observations to be completed to 100% within the rehabilitation service at REH by December '17.

Cohort 2

Katharine Russell - Identify appropriate patients to attend Low Intensity Intervention groups in the OC

Louise Randell & Susan Simpson - Care pathways for severe AN & PD

Claire Fyvie & Donna Gilroy - Increasing access for older people to trauma-informed care

Cohort 3

Rebecca Lawrence- (REH) Redesign of Ritson Clinic Criteria for Referral/Admission

Cohort 4

Elaine McRoberts & Donna McLean - Improving the structure of MDT meetings in Older People's Mental Health

Joanna Skwarski & Janet Nicholson- By December 2017, reduce by 50% the number of telephone interriptions to REH dispensary

Cohort 5

Andrew Williamson - QI project to reduce the frequency of physical aggression, self injury and destruction of property in one ward of the Islay Centre by May 2018

Lucy Birch - Increasing access to psychological therapies for older people by reducing waiting times. 

Alyson Falconer - Psychological Therapies Access in South East Edinburgh

Fiona Barry - Access to Psychological Therapies in NW Edinburgh

Hazel Jamieson - Reducing Pressures on GPs

Tara Hargreaves  - Patient Perspective of Weight, and Weight Management on  a Mental Health Rehabilitation Ward

Louise Duffy  - Improving Communication in the CAMHS In-patient Unit

Cohort 6

Eileen Clark - Reducing the number of missing person reports made to the police from Inpatient adult mental health services.

Mandy Canning - Improving Vaccine Handling & Storage in GP Practices

Jane Owens - Improving Access to Low-intensity Evidence Based interventions from Anxiety in Schools

Cohort 7

Simon Mallon - Does better communication of lodging inpatients within the acute admissions wards reduce the length of inpatient admissions?

Kimberley Gall - Care Pathway to reduce days in hospital

Norman Nuttall - Accessibility of Consent to Treatment Documentation

Robin Berger - Improving executive function in children with epilsepsy

Cohort 8

Hamish Jack - Home Assessment Checklist

Cohort 9

Lynda Lumley - Teaching Sessions for HCSW working in Mental Health

Ommar Ahmed - Improve Physical Health Screening in Patients Taking Antipsychotics

Cohort 10

Frank Charleston & Frances Aitken - Relationship Centred Care

Cohort 11

Paula Armstrong & Fiona Robertson - Improving the inequality of access to Occupational Therapy Services within the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team in Edinburgh

Cohort 12

George Crawford - Reduce waiting time for CPN assessment and Improve Patient Experience

Isla Jack - Strengthening the Patient Voice

Cohort 13

Alyxandra Hamilton-Smith & Isabelle Kolte - Reducing Delays in the South Edinburgh CAMHS ASD Pathway

Cohort 14

Alison Shepherd- Improving Access to Occupational Therapy within Tier 4 CAMHS

Avril Stevenson & Susan Marr - Improving the referral process for the Learning Disability Epilepsy service

Laureen Gray - Improve patient experience when being nursed in HDU

Cohort 15

Izy Utley - Developing communication with the support workers and carers in the Adult Learning Disability speech and language therapy team

Cohort 16

Stuart Currie - Reducing the incidence of omitted or delayed doses, and near miss events involving clozapine in REH inpatient wards

Cohort 17

Alice Farnham & Julia Hannon - The Awareness and Reduction of Distress in Patients with Dementia

Rory Barr - Improving follow up following crisis presentation in CAMHS

Sreedevi Alkanti - FBC monitoring compliance in patients on Clozapine in acute wards.

Planning for Quality

Cohort 1

Cathy Richards - Improving the use of clinical capacity in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by understanding and addressing patient non attendance

Sharon Smith & Peter Lefevre - Improving Communication & Information Exchange at Key Transitions in Acute Mental Health Care

Cohort 3

Robert Clafferty - Improving the quality of junior doctor Psychiatry of Old Age training scheme in Royal Edinburgh Hospital services.

Cohort 4

Alison Meiklejohn, Maria Holancova & Katie Steel - To understand clinical pressures and utilise improvement methodology to ensure effective use of workforce capacity to improve access for patients in Community Mental Health Older People Occupational Therapy

Stephen McBurney - Optimising the pharmaceutical care of patients physical health as well as mental health needs

Cohort 5

Jo Brown  - Observations in long stay forensic psychiatric inpatients

Rachel Brown - Making IHTT more personality disorder friendly

Cohort 6

Fiona Duffy  - Assessment and allocation pathways for Family Based Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa in a community CAMHS team

Arun Chopra - Improving the Serious Adverse Event Review process

Cohort 7

Kate Pestell - Can the Arts Therapies help to improve the journey from hospital to home?

Cohort 8

Melanie Gunning - Implementation of Best Start recommendation 39 : planning for a psychology service in NHS Lothian

Stuart Hunter - Improving Communication Between CMHT and Inpatient care in North East Edinburgh Sector Psychiatry

Cohort 9

David Haldane & Karen Ritchie - Improving Access to Older Peoples Mental Health services

Virtual Quality Improvement Skills Course

Cohort 3

Pauline Moir - Early Hospital Discharge Improvement Project

Cohort 10

Alexandra Pittock - 7 day Follow-Up on Discharge from Hospital: A QI Journey

Cohort 16

Fiona Hill - Supporting Infant Mental Health within Health Visiting

Rhona McAlpine - Promoting the Parent Infant Relationship during Activities of Daily Living (ADLS)

Cohort 18

Neena Dhillon - Art Therapy Pilot

Cohort 19

Catriona Dunlop - Improving Junior Doctor experience on PoA wards in REH

Lynsey Robertson - Memory Assessment and Treatment Service, Occupational Therapy Post Development