The aim of the Quality Improvement Masterclass is to provide practical step-by-step advice on how to carry out a quality improvement project (QIP). The masterclass gets participants involved in selecting a priority subject for improvement, designing the project, planning how to get the stakeholders committed to the project, planning the baseline measurement for the QIP, and anticipating acting on the findings of baseline measurement.
This interactive masterclass is designed to prepare healthcare professionals to use a structure and tools to design and implement QIPs. Projects may be related to national or local guidance or standards. The structure used accommodates approaches to QI including lean, six sigma, the Model for Improvement and the P–D–S–A cycle.
Participants will leave the masterclass with a draft QIP proposal, ensuring immediate application to practice. The programme supports organisational priorities such as patient safety, experience, and outcomes, and fosters a culture of teamwork with colleagues and sharing learning.
The objectives of the masterclass are to help staff to know:
• what’s involved in a QIP and the key stages in carrying out a QIP
• the tools available to support a QIP and when and how they should be used
and know how to:
• reach agreement with a team or colleagues on the subject of a QIP
• develop a measurable objective for improvement
• identify key stakeholders and arrange to get their support
• test everyone’s commitment to achieving the improvement
• select among tools and methods available to measure the effects of current practice before introducing a change in practice and later to evaluate the effects of the change in practice
• identify problems or shortcomings in current practice and their causes
• anticipate the type of change interventions that might be needed to achieve improvement
• complete a QIP proposal.
