My penultimate month at the CCG! :(

1^st June 2016 - 30^th June 2016

As always, it’s been a busy month at the CCG!

Our new placement students will be starting next week so Amy and I have been preparing induction packs and schedules. I can’t believe I only have one month of my placement left, I will be very sad to leave the CCG!

In addition to this, I have been assisting my manager Andrew in writing the CCG’s Quality Strategy. I have been responsible to create the action plans for the year, outlining the national and local context for the strategy and the national and local quality drivers, amongst other things. I’ve really enjoyed contributing to the strategy and learning about what a CCG’s quality strategy is comprised of.

I have also completed my three day AQuA Quality Improvement course. I learnt a lot over the three days, some of which I have previously learnt about at university so it was great to refresh myself. The tools/topics I found particularly useful are stakeholder mapping and engagement, resilience, sustainability, PSDA Cycles, change models, measurement run charts, SPC charts, pareto charts, mood mapping amongst many others.

I’m also working on various Care Home projects.  Along with Charles, our Communications and Engagement manager, I’m creating a Care Home newsletter to go out bi-monthly to our 60 care homes in Eastern Cheshire. I have been responsible to design the hard copy to post out.

I also designed some logos for a care home quality collaborative that our care home quality lead has organised which has been fun to do, as my degree is in business and marketing I enjoy being creative!

Alongside this, I have been exploring a virtual tours idea in our care homes. “The Hub” has recently launched in Macclesfield District General Hospital as a direct result of the reducing delayed transfers of care Process Mapping event I attended at the end of last year. The Hub aims to further facilitate patients who are ready to be discharged to a care home and their relatives and carers. It is crucial that they are very well-informed of the care homes available at short notice, so we are working on improving the provision of information and guidance about the local care homes. I am exploring the idea of a virtual tour website or a single point of access for all the care homes in Eastern Cheshire.

Also this month, I have been reviewing providers’ quarter 4 CQUIN evidence. It has been really interesting to view the achievement of milestones over the year and the subsequent progress that has been made across many specialties.