Academy Participants Projects from
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Quality Improvement Course
Cohort 1
Sara Jenks - (RIE) Virtual clinic for Familial Hypercholesterolaemia
Cohort 3
Annette Cosgrove - Improving the Interface between Patients and Staff in the Waiting Room of the Emergency Dept RIE.
Trish Elder-Gracie - Intermittent Pneumatic Compression Assessment
Jennifer Watters -
Sian Finch - To improve the quality of follow up for patients commenced on Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) in Lothian referred to Sleep Medicine by Feb '18
Cohort 4
Jill MacLeod - Improving the patient pathway for patients referred from GPs to RIE for a possible diagnosis of asthma
Gavin Langlands - Improving Communication of Hospital Medication Alterations in Immediate Discharge Letters
Sharon Lockie & Pamela Gulland - To improve patients and staff expereince in the Pacing Clinics at the RIE
Cohort 5
Gillian Walker - To reduce waiting time for Occupational Therapy assessment to influence discharge decisions for patients with # neck of femur
Fiona Stewart - Improving the journey of the patient with a fractured neck of femur.
Cohort 6
Amy Harris - Improving Hydration in patients with Fractured Neck of Femur
Fionnuala Kelly & Amanda Hogg - To Maximise the Frequency of Physiotherapy Treatments in Order to Optimise the Post-Op Care of Fractured Neck of Femur
Cohort 7
Gillian Stewart - Optimising post operative mobility and function in patients with neck of femur fracture
John Hodge - Improving TRAK documentation for patients with Stoke/TIA
Alistair Gibson & Louise Bell - Beds that go bump in the night - reducing nighttime discharges for Ward 118
Cohort 8
Hazel Moore & Emma Forbes - Improve Access to Instrumental Assessment of Dysphagia after Stroke
Helen Chisholm - Nurse Led Consent for Inpatients
Emma Suttie - Reduce Post Operative Pain Scores in Hip Fracture Patients to aid Mobilisation
Avril Stewart - The Optimum Post Operative Length of Stay for Care Home Patients with Fractured Neck of Femur in an Acute Trauma Ward
Cohort 10
Anna Redpath - Patient Led Goal Setting in the Stroke Unit at the RIE
Louise Fegan - Reducing Delays to Theatre Start Times
Alicja Szewcyzk - Improving patients’ experience of gestational diabetes education sesssion
Natalie Weston - Increasing the proportion of patients mobilizing post-op Day 1 and post-op Day 2 following #Neck of Femur fracture fixation
Andrew Hall - Improving time to theatre in hip fracture by reducing delays in the identification and preoperative management of patients
Adam Duncan-Rusk - Improving the escalation process in the RIE Emergency Department
Emma McNeil - Improving Patients Discharge Experience by Reducing the time spent waiting on medications
William Dunn - Using in situ clinical simulation to imrpove the response to medical emergencies at the RIE
Cohort 11
Fiona McGrehan - Reducing the Omission of Clinically Appropriate Medicines
Jamie Nicholson - Knee Aspiration in the Emergency Department : Developing a change in Service Delivery
Dan Hufton - Improving Doctors-in-Training engagement with Datix
Cohort 12
Catriona McConachie & Kirsty Williamson - Got One? We’ll help you keep it
Elspeth Paterson - Glycaemic control in vascular patients
Joanne Webster - Managing the Procurement of Dressings in NHS Lothian
Cohort 13
Jennie Higgs - Undergraduate Psychiatry Tutorials : Improving the experience for learnings and tutors.
Cohort 14
Eve Bird & Lesley Hutchison - Time to analgesia for Emergency Department patients presenting with abdominal pain
Collette Scavizzi & Jennifer Derighetti - To Improve the pressure care patients receive within our ward area by improving the documentation on admission
Cohort 15
Alastair Lang - Reduce DNA rates in Pre Operative Assessment Clinic at NRIE and Optimise Interpretation, Translation Service Resources
Thomas Ballantyne - Reducing Delays in Time to Theatre for Neck of Femur Fracture Patients
Gillian Pickering - Time to ECG in the Emergency Department
Gary Murray & Mike Baillie-Howat - Improving compliance with Head Injury Observations within the Emergency Department
Chris Findlay - By August 2019, I aim to ensure the base Nurses feel like an integrated member of the MDT to help facilitate care planning for their patients without delay
Hilary Cruickshank & Magda Sitko Rudnicka - Review of Moderate Pretend Clinic Structure at the Neonatal Unit at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Cohort 16
Jason Newman & Stephanie Perrie- Introducing “Essential Goals for Home” to the Hip Fracture Pathway
Jennifer Park - Improving antibiotic stewardship within Critical Care
Zara Tumblety- Improving the pathway for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation monitoring in acute stroke patients
Gillian Walker & Susan Reed - Improving dietetic effectiveness in a renal clinic
Cohort 17
Gloria Rigby - Assessment of Delirium Risk Prior to Cardiac Surgery
Seona Graham - Improving the Care of Inpatients with Altered Airways
Planning for Quality Course
Cohort 1
Andrew Coull & Billie Flynn - Improving access to a stroke unit bed for suitable stroke patients
Caroline Whitworth - Endoscopy at Roodlands Hospital: Improve flow and experience of patients listed for endoscopy
Miriam Ramaboa - Improving use of patient focussed daily goals for Stroke patients in Wd 201
Aris Tyrothoulakis - Reducing Short notice cancelations for flexible cystoscopies
Nikki Maran - Improving time to Carotid Endarterectomy in patients presenting with TIA and stroke in Lothian
Maggie Higgins & Mark Smith - Optimising the length of stay and patient flow in
Ward 202
Michael Gillies - Reduction in Delayed Discharge in Critical Care at the Royal
Infirmary of Edinburgh
Cohort 2
Chris Myers & Lorna Turner - Reducing length of stay across the Orthogeriatric pathway
Kim Dickson & Alan Japp - Reducing time in hospital for patients with heart failure
Nicola Zammitt, Pat Wynne, Sheena Walter - Promoting attendance and HbA1c measurement at the RIE type 1 diabetes clinic
Cohort 3
Gillian Cunningham - Strengthening Reliability of Site Activity Projections
Ravi Ravindran - To improve RIE emergency patients access to theatres (as per NCEPOD crieria) to 100% by October 2017
Lynne Douglas, Sam Molyneaux, Elizabeth Eckles & Susan Whyte - Neck of Femur Clinical Pathway
Cohort 4
Nick Cruden - Can we reduce inpatient stay for DGH patients referred for urgent invasive cardiac investigations?
Krishna Murthy, Alasdair MacLullich, Ciaran McCloskey - Quality Improvement Planning for Acute Hip Fracture Patients
Linda MacIntosh and Janice Alexander - Enhancing dischange of patients who feel well enough to be at home
Nicole Priddee - Identifying opportunities to reduce the number of return patients attending Haematology-Obstetric clinic at RIE
Dave Caeser & Sara Robinson - The Zero Harm ED
Cohort 5
David Coad - Reducing medical delays to theatre in hip fracture patients
Ishrat De Beaux - Improving the pre-operative service assessment service at the RIE
Deepa Japp - Anticipatory Care Planning in Frail Elderly patients at High Risk of Deterioration
Cohort 6
Jon Carter - Good frailty care in the ED: a modern day oxymoron
Nick Weir - Minimising radiation risk to patients from imaging : Head CT scans at the RIE
Chloe Scott & Andy Duffy - Reducing time from admission to theatre list for #NOF patients
Gillian Gardener - Simpsons journey to better birth - improving women and families satisfaction with our service
Annamarie Horne - Gathering Patient Experience in Rheumatology Outpatients to Drive Improvement
Cat Harley - NHS Lothian Advanced Heart Failure Palliative Care Project
Cohort 9
Judith Orme - The Family Experience in the Neonatal Unit
Cohort 10
Karen Henderson - Improving the Current Referral System to the Acute Medical/Surgical Dietetic Team at Royal Infirmary Edinburgh
Keith Hodgson -Improving the Quality of Lower Limb Arthroplasty in Lothian
Vix Monnelly - Optimising learning opportunities for families on the neonatal
Jacqueline Imrie & Elaine Turnbull - Antenatal Hand Expressing
Virtual Quality Improvement Skills Course
Cohort 1
Dawn Coventry - Reducing Nursing Administration Errors in AMU
John Raez - RIE Ward 205 Falls QI Project
Alison Redpath - Reducing 3rd & 4th degree tears during childbirth
Cohort 2
Rosie Mowat - Preventing Stillbirth : improving the plotting of Symphysis-Fundal heights in the antenatal period
Sioned Lloyd Davies - Speech & Language Therapy Referral Project
Cohort 3
Linda Bertram - Project to increase awareness of the risks of co-codamol
Robyn McCann, Fiona Neary & Caoimhe McCann - Optimising reliable post-operative early mobilisation of patients following a Neck of Femur Fracture
Cohort 5
Louise Graham - Improvement of surgical follow up for O/G cancer patients
Steven Morrison - Perioperative Temperature Control, Theatres 13, 17 & 18
Claire Simpson - Documenting Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Dysphagia Recommendations
Kyle Gibson - SABs due to A-lines in Critical Care
Cohort 6
Suzanne Connolly - Mirror Box Therapy within RIE ISU
Cohort 8
Sarah Baillie - Improving the referral process into Maternity and Neonatal psychological Interventions Service (MNPI)
Simon Chillingsworth - Improving glycaemic control for diabetic patients having orthopaedic surgery
Dr. Angela Davidson - Keeping Mothers and Babies Together
Cohort 9
Louise Elliott - Shoulder ROM Exercise Project in ICU
Cohort 10
Anastasia Istomina & Jose Perez - Reduce DNA rates for Colposcopy & Outpatient Hysteroscopy clinics
David Quine - QI Project in Respiratory Care
Pam Nicholson - Increasing the Use of the RIE Discharge Lounge
Cohort 12
Evia Mamvura, Mary Kahraman & Claire Cunningham - Hand Hygiene
Cohort 14
Sheikha Thomas - Antenatal Hand Expressing for women with diabetes
Roy Harris - Improving TEPs in the Wards
Emma Hearn - Learning from 2222 Calls
Cohort 16
Rachael Robertson - OT Delirium Assessment/Rehabilitation
Cohort 18
Laura Campbell - NEWS2 Recognition
Jamie Ovens & Lyndsey Watt - Improving Discharge Process on the ward
Caron McQuade - Increase the percent of normothermic orthopaedic elective surgical patients
Cohort 19
Jo Thomson - Rehab Boards
Claire Sutherland - Improving expectations in the Emergency Department
Kirsteen Hamilton - End of Life Care in the Emergency Department