Quality Improvement

Cohort 1

Carol MacKinnon -  Review & Improve the scheduling process from DTT to 1st appointment –  Barriers to timely scheduling of daycase chemotherapy (SACT)

Caroline McKinnel - Improve patient flow through Ward 1 through better utilisation of skill mix of staff. 

Jackie Whigham - Improve the communication pathway from and unscheduled admission outwith oncology to a patient's oncology team (if required)

Lesley Shepherd -  To improve patient flow through OAA and to improve delivering the sepsis 6 within 60 minutes of presentation. 

Cohort 3

Caroline Souter- (WGH) Reduce patient harm from gentamicin

Cohort 4

Colin Noble, Nikki Inglis, Neil Boyle & Anne Smith - Endoscopy QIP in NHS Lothian

Catriona Rostron - To make the WGH a centre of excellence for a whole-Hospital approach to the care of older people and those with dementia within 3 years.

Johnny McKnight - Understanding and improving 4, 8 and 12 hour performance in medical ARAU trolleys

Cohort 5

Douglas McCabe - Improving the prescribing of oxygen on a respiratory ward.

Alison Cockburn - Quality improvement project to optimise use of alert antibiotics in NHS Lothian.

Avril Brown - Introducing an active role for Dementia Champions at the WGH

Cohort 7

Sam Stirling - Reducing inactivity and deconditioning in Elderly inpatients with the use of Activity Support Workers.

Cohort 8

Martin Doak & Moray Kyle - Improving radiotherapy decision making by the acute oncology team

Frances Gallagher - Reducing System Delays in Endoscopy

Cohort 9

Hema Bhat - Reducing outpatient waiting times for Urgent Rheumatology New Patients

Pauline Bell & Lynne Merchant - Improving the Initiation of Biologic Therapy for IBD patients

Laura Thomson - End of Life Care

Audrey Matthews - Understanding Patient and Staff Experience of NHS care for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)

Cohort 10

Nicola Hedley - Improve Inpatient Access to Stroke Rehab by Developing Therapy Led Site Transfers

Kirsty MacLennan - SACT readiness

Cohort 11

Eilidh Hannan - Increasing patient interaction on the Integrated Stroke Unit

Lois Pollock - Improving Day Case Patient Flow in Cancer Units across SCAN

Angus Crawford - Endoscopy inpatient flow

Cohort 12

Niamh McAlesse - Improving access to NHS Lothian Neuropsychology Outpatient Services

Claire Doonan - A review of the dietetic service for patients starting curative Head & Neck cancer treatment

Cohort 13

Lisa Anderson - Improving Pressure Area Management

Pota Kalima - Reporting of Entertic Pathogrens in Microbiology

Monika Sommerrey - Referral form for CUP optimising team’s time

Cohort 14

Lynnsay Gammie - Increasing Upper Limb Therapy within Stroke

Denise Duffy - Complex discharging in End of Life care in Ward 4

Amanda Maitland & Jodie Barnes - The Benefits of an Enhanced Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Service in Orthopaedic Rehabilitation.

Cohort 16

Lynsey Alexander and Sarah Howorth - Ready to Go

Elaine Adams - Lost capacity in Endoscopy: Why do patients cancel?

Harvey Rutter - Used Once, Washed twice, no need

Cohort 17

Penny Hatson - Reduce the time taken to screen oncology inpatients notes for new patients referred to the oncology inpatient physiotherapy service

Mags Cantley - Reducing common queries coming through the eRostering helpdesk

Emma Childs - Reducing the number of unscheduled appontments in the WGH Out-Patient Breast clinic

Ashley Pheely - Improving the Escalation Pathway for Acutely Unwell Patients in Oncology

Nicola Simpson - Upper Limb Rehab : Measuring the Outcomes in Stroke

Pauline McAleer - Documentation and Communication around Inpatient deaths

Planning for Quality

Cohort 1

Belinda Hacking - Increasing Access to Sexual Problems Clinic by Reducing Waiting
Times

Audrey Campbell - Improving Flow and Safety in Oncology Assessment Area

Melinda Cuthbert - Reducing the number of patients in Acute Receiving Unit Beds 1&2 at WGH with wait time for medicines to be supplied from the hospital pharmacy

Gemma Couser, Christina Lilley & David Cameron - Improve accuracy and efficiency of the day case chemotherapy pathway

Cohort 2

Chris Stiring, Catherine Crombie, Sheena Kerr, Tracy Kershaw, Mhairi Collie & Anne Donaldson - Ensure 93.3% of all patients requiring colorectal surgery are properly informed, consented, prepared and discharged.

Oliver Young & Shelley-Marie O'Hare - Optimising breast cancer follow up

Cohort 3

Lyndsay Cameron, Nick Church & Kris Wright - To provide timely and patient-centred access to diagnostic and theraputic endoscopy procedures for patients treated within NHS Lothian

Francis Yuille, Zor Muang, Douglas McCormick - Quality Improvement in the Lung Cancer Pathway

Fiona Gaskell - To achieve a reduction of 30% in un-necessary return visits to ambulatory care at the WGH by August 2017

Stuart McLellan - Reforming routine follow up of patients on long term ventilation

Cohort 4

Colin Noble, Nikki Inglis, Neil Boyle & Anne Smith - Endoscopy QIP in NHS Lothian

Catriona Rostron - To make the WGH a centre of excellence for a whole-Hospital approach to the care of older people and those with dementia within 3 years.

Johnny McKnight - Understanding and improving 4, 8 and 12 hour performance in medical ARAU trolleys

Cohort 5

Rachel Brodie - Reducing Delayed Discharge in WGH

Louise Hanlon & Ellie Hunter - Improving in-room efficiency within the endoscopy suite

Cohort 6

Gill Wilkie, Jenny Fleming, Mary MacLeod & Terri Ratcliffe - Streamlining Patient Access to the Urology Service

Cohort 7

Gordon Duncan, Vivien McKay, Kathryn Anderson, Lorna Whitecross - Managing Frailty at the Front Door Interface

Stuart Ritchie - Improving the Inpatient Diabetes Care - which bit to look at

Ravneet Batra - Hepatitis C testing in IHTT patient cohort

Cohort 8

Chris Williamson - Learning from Excellence

Catriona McLean - Improving the process and experience for elective in-patient radiotherapy at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre

Nathan Oliver - Simulation Programme Commissioner Experience Project

Cohort 9

Phil Reid - Enhanced eTriage in Respiratory Medicine

Hazel Smith - Improving the Nurse Urology Unit

Cohort 10

Laura Thomson - Quality Planning in WGH MAU

Virtual Quality Improvement Skills Course

Cohort 2

Gill Brownlie - Empowering patients on Ward 230 to leave their single side room for walks

Cohort 4

Orla Creed, Jennifer McKechnie & Gavin Ritch - Aim to reduce Emergency department (ED) attendances for patients with low back pain (LBP)

Susan Saunders - Increase Utilisation of a Single Point of Access to the Integrated Shoulder and Elbow Pathway for Routine Patients, in the Absence of Red Flags

Dr. Catherine Quinn, Patsy Bathgate & Becky Dryburgh - The decision making process regarding emergency surgery on frail in-patients in the WGH

Ros Todd - Having a good Blether: supporting nursing and support staff on a Stroke Ward to have good conversations with patients with communication impairments

Cohort 7

Beata Toth - Reducing the Discharge Process Length for Patients in the Ward

Cohort 8

Emma Caldwell, Rowena Smith & Barry Hewit - Cervical Cancer Pathway

Vasudha Singh - Deteriorating Patients Project

Li Wong - Updating the criteria for POC eGFR testing for iodinated contrast in non-emergency CT patients

Cohort 9

Esperanza Palenzuela & Carol Philip - Safe prescribing, administering and monitoring gentamicin in HEPMA

Cohort 11

Susan Timotheou - Implementing an Improved System of Work to ensure that the hoist slings prescribed for patients meet their specific healthcare needs

Mark Quilietti-Bird & Laura Rodriguez - BBV Team Case Finding Project

Cohort 12

Naomi Matthews - Review of physiotherapy Vestibular service in ARC

Cohort 13

Katherine Galliard, Lorraine McCabe & Jay Morris - CEPOD Efficiency Improvement Project

Laura Reid - Exercise after Stroke Service utilisation of post-stroke patient’s at the Stroke Unit at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Cohort 14

Hayley Simpson & Mhairi Pottage - Improving downstream flow from Critical Care at WGH site

Lucy Shardalow - Improving the recognition of deteriorating patients on the Ward

Cohort 18

Catriona Corsie & Sarah Hamilton - Improving the Cancer Family History Service in the South East of Scotland Regional Genetics Department

Ailie Young - A Review of the Cardiac Arrest Pagers at the Western General Hospital