Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Programme

This session will include a range of presentations from the most effective and impactful quality improvement projects taking place across the UK, demonstrating use of appropriate QI methods to achieve sustainable improvement.

Abstracts

• Visual inspection of the newborn palate improves the early detection of cleft palate in the UK: 10 year impact of the RCPCH Best Practice Guide
• The Power of Puffs: What Changed When We Went Burst - Replacing Nebulisers with MDI in a Children’s ED
• A quality improvement project to optimise prescription of enteral proton pump inhibitors in a tertiary paediatric hospital
• Development & piloting of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) with children & young people living with HIV in the UK to improve healthcare experience
• Clearing the Air: Reducing Passive Smoking and Air Pollution on Hospital Grounds to Protect Infants and Children
• Embedding Equity: Implementing Practical Strategies for Differential Attainment in Paediatric Training – A Regional Mixed-Methods QIP

Speakers

• Prof. Sahana Rao - Consultant Paediatrician and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, Oxford University Hospitals      
• Jonathan Bamber - Head of Quality Improvement, RCPCH