Quality Improvement

In law, all healthcare boards have a duty of quality. GGI can help boards be assured they are meeting these responsibilities, and putting service quality first and ensuring robust quality improvement programmes. The GGI Quality and Safety subject matter experts can help boards and organisations by:

• Undertaking a  quality review of the board, to help the board be assured that it is properly integrating these issues into all decision taking and assurance work

• Reviewing governance systems and structures, to help the board have ongoing comfort that its working practices are putting quality

• Providing specialist board development sessions on quality to ensure that all board members are up to date on issues around meeting the national requirements and instituting better practice
• Developing quality improvement porgrammes to systematically audit and improvement clinical care

Commissions have included:

• In partnership with Tunstall and the English Community Care Association, undertaking a national review of quality and safety of care in the home for people with long term conditions - as care approaches develop to meet the needs of people with long term conditions, and as more care is provided in patients' own homes, the way in which healthcare organisations consider quality and safety will need to change
• Developing A Simple Guide to Clinical Audit for NHS Boards for the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
• Publishing a Maturity Matrix for Clinical Audit