Improving handovers
This work by colleagues in the East Kent Referral Unit at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, aimed to make urgent referral handovers faster and more efficient.
Flashes of brilliance
Reducing the wait for elbow crutches
This quality improvement (QI) project aimed to reduce the time patients have to wait for elbow crutches in the community.
Helping colleagues to work flexibly
A quality improvement (QI) project to help colleagues work flexibly.
Blitz clinic for glue ear
This work resulted in nearly 100 children being seen in one day, for glue ear, after a special Saturday clinic was set up.
Single point of access for referrals
Making sure patients receive the right care, at the right time, by the right professionals was at the heart of changes made by our west Kent community hospitals service.
Improving training compliance rates
The aim of this project was to seek buy in from every service at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) which needs colleagues to complete life support training.
Improvements within a community rehabilitation administration team
This flash of brilliance improved the way admin worked within a community rehab team. The flash of brilliance which led to improvements by the admin team
Spring clean reduces waiting list
A Flash of Brilliance to have a big spring clean, to address a long waiting list.
Improving preceptorships for speech and language therapists
A quality improvement (QI) project to improve preceptorships for speech and language therapists.
Waiting list reduced thanks to blitz clinic
Thanks to a flash of brilliance in the physiotherapy team at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT), a patient waiting list has been reduced by two weeks.
