Planning your Project

Prepared by: Alison Hunter, Improvement Advisor, Acute Adult Safety

Workshop 2

Aims of Session Alison Hunter 5 minutes

Group Work All 25 minutes

Feedback All 8 minutes

Future Support All 7 minutes

Aim of this Session

• Start to plan your improvement work – using a Charter– Aims– Measures– Interventions

• Design your first test of change• Identify support required – locally & nationally• Develop and build on links with others• Learn from successes and failures

A Charter

An Improvement Charter

• Describes the problem• Describes the aim• Describes the measures (outcome, process, balancing)• Describes the interventions for initial testing• Describes the scope (population of interest for this project) & constraints

(people, money etc)• Describes roles & responsibilities (the team)• Describes the stakeholders• Describes the timelines

Designing your tests

• Plan – What would happen if ?– Your prediction– Who, what, when & where ?– What data/information is needed ?

• Do– Carry out the test, collect your data

• Study– Analyse the data. How did it compare to your prediction? How did it

answer your question? Summarise your learning.• Act

– What will you do now (adapt, adopt, abandon)

Group work

• 4 groups– CAUTI– Devices– SIPC– Others

• Share your thoughts on your Charter

• Suggest a first test of change

• Feedback

Feedback – 2 minutes per table

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