This guest blog post is from Dr Anna Greenwood, Anaesthetic Speciality Registrar and previous Major Trauma Leadership Fellow.
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Introducing Excellence Reporting to a Major Trauma Network
Over the past 8 months the North Yorkshire & Humberside Major Trauma Network has introduced the concept of Excellence Reporting across three Acute Hospital Trusts. The initial Quality Improvement PDSA cycles resulted in an online form emailed to the Network in recognition of what staff perceived as excellent care both clinically and in supporting that work. There have been many examples of peer support, and our ‘five minute appreciate inquiry’ has allowed us to share ideas such as the use of a red badges to identify staff trained in TILS (Trauma Intermediate Life Support), to sharing ideas between sites about identifying elderly ‘silver’ Trauma Patients, who come in with less easily recognised Major Trauma. We have recognised and shared ideas for improved care and national audit data collection, and most notably recognised the great work of a non clinical staff member who identified an acutely unwell patient, allowing for prompt and potentially life saving care.
The challenges of introducing the concept across six hospital sites and including care from road side through the ED, to theatre, ICU, wards and rehab has included sharing information, identifying those reported as excellent and influencing different practices across the Trusts. This all benefitted from the committed individuals who attended monthly Network meetings across the region and disseminated the ideas back, and the hard working staff who recognised the brilliance of Dr Plunket’s original idea.
The next exciting development is the introduction of a ‘cloud’ web based reporting system at the Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Through collaboration between senior Management, Safety Teams, IT, the Communications team, and clinicians on the shop floor we have started to establish the first wards for PDSA cycles before a trust wide launch in June with the launch of the new intranet system. The aim here is to join up the great work the Trust is already doing in recognising great practice, and its well developed and successful Communications team, with well-established safety teams to launch a quick & easy to fill in form that both reflects the great work going on, but also has a formal structure in place to feed this back and take on the learning points. We are using the name ‘greatix’ and thank the Leicester team for sharing their practice. I look forward to sharing these next steps in future, and would like to recognise the fantastic culture amongst the already established Excellence Reporting teams across the country who have shared their experiences and ideas so that we have more chance of success.
Dr Anna Greenwood
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