ImproveWell

Continuous improvement and staff retention in social care

Sticky 6 August 2024 6 August 2024 Shannon Binalay

In July 2024, Skills for Care – the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England – published a Workforce Strategy. It’s the first time the adult social care sector has...

Quality Improvement Basics

1 July 2022 13 August 2024 Quality Improvement

An in-depth guide to healthcare QI: from getting started to embedding the right systems and culture.

The Improver Ep 9. Quality Improvement: now and next

27 May 2022 13 March 2024

Featuring Dr Amar Shah, Chief Quality Officer at East London NHS Foundation Trust and National Improvement Lead, RCPsych.

Scaling improvement: from local, to national, to international joy in work

30 March 2022 9 July 2024

Scaling improvement with East London NHS Foundation Trust, Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

The Improver Ep 8. Recruiting, retaining, and celebrating the flexible workforce

2 March 2022 13 March 2024

Featuring Nicola McQueen, CEO of NHS Professionals – the largest temporary staff supplier to the NHS.

#28DaysEngageToImprove2022

28 February 2022 15 July 2024

28 individual ideas, insights and suggestions for engaging the workforce in healthcare improvement.

Creating a learning system for continuous improvement

24 January 2022 9 July 2024

Eight lessons in continuous improvement learnt at the NHS Nightingale Hospital London.

The Improver Ep 7. Have you fallen in love with the problem?

16 December 2021 13 March 2024

Featuring Hassan Chaudhury, HealthcareUK.

The Improver Ep 6. The power of positivity

12 November 2021 16 October 2023

Featuring Helen Bevan, Chief Transformation Officer, NHS Horizons and Göran Henriks, Chief Executive of Learning & Innovation at Qulturum.

The Improver Ep 5. There is no performance without wellbeing

6 August 2021 13 March 2024

Featuring Jon Pitts, founder IHP Analytics and Rob McCargow, Director of Artificial Intelligence at PwC.

Continuous improvement and staff retention in social care

In July 2024, Skills for Care – the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England – published a Workforce Strategy. It’s the first time the…

06/08/2024

Continuous improvement and staff retention in social care

21/08/2024

Redefining improvement to strengthen NHS partnerships

29/05/2024

Driving healthcare efficiency: The AI revolution

09/04/2024

Why the NHS needs an AI Tsar

15/03/2024

Escalating costs, reduced productivity and high employee turnover: The true cost of seeing staff engagement in improvement as a ‘nice-to-have’

22/02/2024

Active listening for powerful impact in health and care

13/01/2024

How to ensure the spread and sustainability of Quality Improvement in healthcare

12/01/2024

Quality Improvement tools: from pen-and-paper methods to digital solutions

08/01/2024

Improve your CQC rating through staff engagement and real-time feedback

18/12/2023

23 tweets for 2023

21/11/2023

Tracey Barr on workforce retention and our new white paper

26/06/2023

Staff Engagement, Quality Improvement and the NHS Staff Survey

05/05/2023

How does Quality Improvement impact NHS Service Improvement?

30/03/2023

Everyday innovation: the power of small but mighty improvements

28/02/2023

#28DaysEngageToImprove

21/12/2022

22 tweets for 2022

08/11/2022

The Improver Ep 10. Precision wellbeing – pivoting to virtual

03/11/2022

How can NHS and healthcare organisations prepare for winter pressures?

20/09/2022

Examples of quality improvement initiatives in health and care

01/07/2022

Quality Improvement Basics

27/05/2022

The Improver Ep 9. Quality Improvement: now and next

30/03/2022

Scaling improvement: from local, to national, to international joy in work

02/03/2022

The Improver Ep 8. Recruiting, retaining, and celebrating the flexible workforce

28/02/2022

#28DaysEngageToImprove2022

24/01/2022

Creating a learning system for continuous improvement

16/12/2021

The Improver Ep 7. Have you fallen in love with the problem?

12/11/2021

The Improver Ep 6. The power of positivity

06/08/2021

The Improver Ep 5. There is no performance without wellbeing

05/08/2021

Ripples and halos

25/05/2021

Listen up: five ways to embrace frontline feedback

23/04/2021

The Improver Ep 4. Recognising your sphere of influence

25/03/2021

What we learnt: frontline discoveries at the NHS Nightingale Hospital

19/03/2021

The Improver Ep 3. Look for the Shining Eyes

11/02/2021

Walking with pebbles in your shoe

09/02/2021

The Improver Ep 2. Why multidisciplinary alliance is the way forward: the CEO’s view

26/01/2021

The Improver Ep 1. The Art of Possible

19/01/2021

Making it STICK: ensuring quality improvement project success

10/12/2020

Employee engagement in a time of crisis

20/11/2020

Participatory change: 5 resources to guide staff involvement in healthcare quality improvement in 2020 and beyond

03/11/2020

From the universality of burnout in healthcare to COVID-19’s silver lining

19/10/2020

From coping to thriving: what’s needed to revitalise healthcare professionals’ everyday experience

23/09/2020

Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Conversation and Action Guide to Support Staff Wellbeing and Joy in Work

11/09/2020

IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work

31/07/2020

Teams and leaders need continuing support through the COVID-19 pandemic

15/07/2020

Why a culture of rapid learning in healthcare is vital

20/05/2020

Why empowering frontline workers will transform your organisation

21/02/2020

3 steps to embed a culture of continuous improvement in healthcare

20/01/2020

Involving our whole workforce in the improvement journey

17/01/2020

Collaboration: the power of collective intelligence in innovation

02/01/2020

Achieving joy in the new year

01/08/2019

How the ImproveWell solution can help prevent burnout in healthcare

03/07/2019

5 tips for creating an innovative workforce

18/06/2019

How Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is using ImproveWell to make lasting change

31/05/2019

ImproveWell helps QI efforts in South East Essex CCGs

28/03/2019

Why employee wellbeing should be your number 1 priority in 2019

27/11/2018

Making things better for junior doctors: can an app really increase Joy in Work?

12/11/2018

Staff improvement ideas get a boost with new app

07/11/2018

Successful pilot as mobile app provides quality improvements

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