How to run a safety improvement project: handheld guide
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Safety improvement project
Safety improvement project involves:
Tips:
- Testing a safety improvement idea on a small scale in real world setting
- Measuring improvement
- Learning from your results
- Refining your changes and testing again
- Repeating this cycle until you've reached satisfactory improvement
Tips:
- Start small
- Test improvements sequentially (ie start small, if it works build on the improvement)
Model for improvement
1) What are we trying to accomplish?
2) How will we know that a change is an improvement?
3) What change can we make that will result in improvement?
2) How will we know that a change is an improvement?
3) What change can we make that will result in improvement?
Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA cycle)
Run charts
Run charts are used:
- Show how well a process is performing
- Help determine when changes are truly improvements