Category 1: Improving Processes and Healthcare Outcomes
1. How the introduction of a standardised operation note has led to individually tailored post-operative care plans and improved multi-disciplinary team performance for patients with fractured neck of femur at Yeovil District Hospital
Ms Clare Spolton-Dean, Registrar, Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust
2. Improving patient safety during haemodialysis catheter insertion
Dr Richard Powell, Renal SpR, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
3. Visit from a Vampire
Dr Nyssa Comber, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH)
4. Improving the physical health monitoring of community patients in Plymouth on antipsychotics
Dr Samuel Saliu, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
5. Improving the documentation of urinary catheterisation on medical wards at Weston General Hospital
Dr Clare Oliver, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Weston Area Health Trust
6. Spotting and treating sepsis in acute paediatric presentations on a district general hospital ward
Dr Gita Modgil, Consultant Paediatrician, Paediatric Department, Musgrove Park Hospital
7. Delivering an integrated community based frailty model
Mrs Vee Spandoni, Frailty Service Lead Practitioner, North Somerset Community Partnership
8. Winter Is Coming: Improving Antibiotic Prescribing for Sore Throats
Dr Rajan Pooni, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
9. Reducing urinary tract infections in care home residents through structured drinks rounds and staff training
Mrs Katie Lean, Patient Safety Manager, Oxford Academic Health Science Network
10. Identifying the responsible junior clinician for medical inpatients
Dr Tobias Roberts, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust
11. Inpatient Self-monitoring of Blood Glucose for Adults with Cystic Fibrosis
Ms Jessica Parkin, Medical Student, University of Bristol/University Hospitals Bristol
12. Staff and Patient Perceptions of the WHO Checklist
Dr Rebecca Kelly, Dental Core Trainee in Oral Surgery, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
13. Shock through the heart, and you’re to blame: Reducing DC cardioversion errors using a checklist and simulation training
Dr Nathan Riddell, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
14. Project Fal Ward: A Human Factors Ergonomics (HFE) Pilot Study
Dr Louise Schonborn, Anaesthetic Registrar, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
15. ‘Hedgehog Handover’: a custom-built digital quality improvement project
Dr Daniel Leach, ST2 Doctor, North Bristol NHS Trust
16. Embedding a culture of using a LocSSIP in a non theatre environment when inserting a chest drain
Mrs Ingrid Henderson, Patient Safety and Quality Lead Women’s Services, United Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust
17. Reducing Health Acquired Pressure Ulcers (HAPUs) at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Wales
Dr Doris Behrens, Principal Mathematical Modeller, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
18. Low Risk Chest Pain Pathway Reduces Patient Length of Stay and Hospital Admissions and Promotes Safety with Targeted Follow Up
Dr Reuben Cooper, ST5 Emergency Medicine, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
19. Improving ITU Discharge Summaries – A Quality Improvement Project
Dr Aishwarya Anilkumar, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Weston General Hospital
20. Improving Patient Safety during Doctors’ Changeover
Dr Aboyowa Popo, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, North Middlesex University Hospital
21. Introduction of a NatSSIP compliant proforma to improve documentation and safety of lumbar punctures
Dr Jennifer Bracken, Core Medical Trainee, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust
22. Audit of head injury management in a district general hospital
Mr Joseph John, CST1, Musgrove Park Hospital
23. Improving the timeliness of inpatient discharge summaries at Weston General Hospital
Dr Rachel Goddard, Chief Registrar, Weston Area Health Trust
24. Improving the safety of High Flow Nasal Cannula use in a high care setting
Dr Georgina Mynott, SHO, Bristol Royal Infirmary Medicine
Category 2: Training, education, knowledge, best practice
25. Education of junior doctors on the preparation and delivery of Intravenous antibiotics
Dr Hannah Petho, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Portsmouth Hospital Trust
26. NSCP Learning and Development Team - The Journey so far......
Mrs Phaedra Hamilton, Practice Education Facilitator, North Somerset Community Partnership
27. The use of anticoagulants in the management of atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
Ms Jane Roberts, Clinical Lead, Residential Home Support Team, North Somerset Community Partnership
28. Fire Safety Survey: a completed audit cycle
Dr Dominic Rodwell, CT1 ACCS Anaesthetics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Trust
29. Caries Prevention: dietary counselling and fluoride intervention. A multi-centre quality improvement project (QIP) within Primary Care Dental Practices
Dr Jonathan Davies, Dentist, Exmouth Dentists
30. A Quality Improvement project to promote access to the palliative care out-of- hours advice line at the Great Western Hospital
Dr Joanna Gumley, Clinical Innovation Fellow, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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31. A quality improvement project to improve antimicrobial stewardship in acute surgical patients at the GWH
Dr Harriet Nicholas, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
32. Improving confidence with on-call scenarios in final year medical students
Dr Annie Carroll, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Weston Area Health Trust
33. Improving the identification of NOF patients appropriate for the Gold Standards Framework
Dr Kirsty Benton, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, North Bristol NHS Trust
Category 3: System-wide improvement /building patient safety capacity
34. Uptake of latent tuberculosis screening in Slough - a high incidence area for TB
Ms Jacqueline Riddles, Project Manager LTBI, Slough CCG
35. Oxford AHSN Regional Improvements in Sepsis Management
Mrs Jo Murray, Patient Safety Programme Manager, Oxford Academic Health Science Network
36. Patient non-attendance characteristics at rheumatology outpatient clinics within a large multi-ethnic region
Dr Abigail Takyi, Junior Doctor, University Hospital Leicester
37. Local Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (LocSSIPs) at UHBristol
Dr Claire Sellar, Respiratory SpR, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust
38. Improving Patient Safety: Reducing the risk of inappropriate patient connection to airflow
Dr Richard Ellis, Clinical Leadership Fellow, ABCi, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board & Wales Deanery
39. Improving Gentamicin Prescription
Dr Katie Sales, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Royal United Hospitals Bath
40. Improving accessibility through increasing capacity
Dr Keith Gomes Pinto, GPST3, Preston Grove Surgery
41. Enabling Improvement Capability at North Bristol NHS Trust
Ms Vardeep Deogan, Quality Improvement Practitioner, North Bristol NHS Trust
42. Strengthening the Hospital Out of Hours service at Royal Derby Hospital
Dr Samuel Thacker, Clinical Fellow in Leadership & Management, Derby Teaching Hospitals
Category 4: Better teamwork including multi-disciplinary/changing culture
Enhancing patient experience/candour
Learning from events/errors
43. Ultrasound guided Out-Patient malignant ascites drainage – A unique multi-professional approach
Dr Andy Beale, Consultant Radiologist, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
44. Improving communication at handover and transfer reduces retained swabs in maternity services
Ms Katie Lean, Patient Safety Manager, Oxford Academic Health Science Network
45. Getting Medicines Right - it’s complicated!
Ms Joy Davey, Medicines Governance and Safety Officer, Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
46. PIMS: Learning from clinical excellence
Dr Eleanor Jarvis, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, North Bristol NHS Trust
47. NeoPremQI- An MDT Approach to Quality Improvement in Perinatal Care
Dr Thomas Isaac, Clinical Teaching Fellow, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
48. Improving the Medical Emergency Team
Dr Jennifer Callaghan, Clinical Innovation Fellow/ Geriatric Registrar, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
49. Improving the Quality of Management of Paediatric Emergencies at Weston General Hospital with a Focus on Human Factors
Dr Devika Arambepola, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Weston General Hospital
50. 500+ Club - Life saving TREAT-ments
Mrs Donna Little, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
51. “GO FLO” with Telehealth - Empowering Women to Monitor their Health at Home
Dr Nusrat Fazal, Consultant Obstetrician, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
52. The Purple Butterfly Project
Dr Clare Kendall, Pallative Care Consultant, North Bristol NHS Trust
53. Improving confidence of non-clinical staff members in emergency situations in general practice
Dr Adam Young, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, North Middlesex University Hospital