The celebration checklist
When you are working with improvement, it is important to celebrate milestones and successes.
Communications for healthcare improvement – new international #QiComms Group
Together with colleagues from a range of organisations from Europe, US and Canada, the communications team of the Danish Society for Patient Safety has formed the #QiComms Group.
We will plan our #QiComms from the start
Communications can have a very significant and positive impact on healthcare professionals – for their motivation, their joy in work and their effort to create and sustain improvements. However, it’s important to include communications from the very start of a project. That’s what principle 2 in the #QiComms Charter is about: We will…
”I’m what you call a data nerd”
Interview with Henriette Hansen, who’s a nurse assistant at the nursing home ‘Skovcentret’ in Lolland municipality and committed to the project In safe hands.
Communication tools are effective as drivers for improvement
A survey among participants in a large improvement programme in the Danish municipalities.
How to use the media to drive improvement
If you are a healthcare professional you might think that journalists and communications people are strange or even scary, and that contact with the media is awkward and not part of your job. But actually the media can be a very useful and effective tool if you are working with…
Power to the patient!
In the last few months my name has ‘snuck’ onto two articles published in peer reviewed journals. Whilst neither paper is likely to set the academic community on fire, I’m keen to share this news as I believe the theme of these papers does have value and may indeed be…
Reward for improvement idea of the month
Every month the best improvement idea or improvement story is celebrated in Sønderborg Municipality as a part of the program I Sikre Hænder/In Safe Hands.
Fra England til Sikker Psykiatri
Sikker Psykiatri har fået en ny dreng i klassen. Han hedder Simon Tulloch og kommer fra East London NHS Foundation Trust. Læs interview med ham.
Media coverage enhances professional pride
Positive media coverage is a direct driver for improvement of patient safety. This is clear from a survey among healthcare professionals, quality staff, and hospital managements of the Danish Safer Hospital Programme.