I've had an extremely busy month at the CCG so apologies for the very late blog post!
Along with my manager Andrew, I am working on the CCG's Quality Strategy. I have been researching our peers' quality strategies as I've never written a quality strategy before so I'm very keen to assist with this and learn about how they are written. We also need to ensure the strategy is aligned to the CCG's Operational Plan and 2016/17 QIPP plans.
In good timing with this, I am currently doing a Quality Improvement AQuA course at Manchester Central Foundation Trust. The course is over 3 days and the first day I've completed so far has been very beneficial. We were looking at the work of quality improvement pioneers such as Deming and Juran who I've previously studied at university. We were exploring what quality means and how it differs for a consumer, an employee, an organisation and a patient. We were also introduced to various quality improvement tools to use when conducting a project which will be of great use in the future. After nearly a year of not having any seminars or lectures, the course will be a great way to get me back in to studying mode, before I return to university in September!
The 2016/17 CQUINs are finalized having been agreed with all providers as are the 2016/17 Quality Schedules for our providers (as mentioned/explained in previous blog posts!). I am now creating Trackers and evidence reporting templates in order to monitor provider's performance for each CQUIN measure throughout the year.
The CATCH app adverts and editorial are being displayed in the Cheshire newspapers over the next few months which is very exciting! They are in the Knutsford, Wilmslow and Crewe Guardians; The Macclesfield Express; Congleton, Sandbach and Alsager Chronicles and on the well-known "Mums in the Know" website.The adverts are shown below:
We have now received all the promotional material for CATCH which looks brilliant! Kate and I have been busy creating and distributing promotional packs for healthcare professionals to distribute to patients.
Also this month, everything has been finalised in the recruitment process for our new placement students.It's been really interesting to go through the whole recruitment process starting with writing job descriptions to finalising contracts. We are all looking forward to our new placement students starting in July.
Yesterday was International Nurses Day! Kate and I delivered 200 cakes to our 22 practices across Eastern Cheshire to show the CCG's support and to celebrate the brilliant, hard work nurses do. All the nurses were extremely appreciative and it was a pleasure to meet them in person. Eastern Cheshire is much bigger than we anticipated! After 6 hours of driving we were done! We took a couple of photos of the day, please see below:
Earlier this week, as part of the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) process, the CCG held another workshop reviewing potential schemes to implement. It was a very productive workshop, whereby several schemes were appraised, and the focus was on identifying potential risks to consider and reducing costs.
As well as this,the CCG had an Away Day earlier this month which celebrated the CCG's achievements, focussing on our plans and priorities for the years ahead with lots of fun, team building activities in between. It was a Star Wars theme which worked really well including a Star War Bake-Off! As you will be able to tell from the photos below, we have some amazing bakers at the CCG!
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