Nurse awarded one of five Quality Improvement Fellowships by the Health Foundation

Five senior healthcare leaders from across the UK were awarded the HF’s Quality Improvement Fellowship in March 2013.  These Fellowships develop and equip clinically qualified senior NHS leaders with the tools and techniques of quality improvement, with the aim of integrating their learning into their organisations and becoming quality improvement champions within the UK.

The five fellows will spend a year in the USA at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they will combine academic learning with the development of leadership skills and healthcare quality improvement techniques. Fellows will focus on their own area of interest to improve healthcare quality.

A nurse by background Erica Reid, the National Programme Lead Emergency Care Pathways at Scottish Government Health Directorates, will focus on management of inpatient capacity and flow, and improvement methodology at organisation/systems boundaries.

On their return to the UK, fellows will integrate their learning into processes and procedures at their employing organisation in order to really impact on service improvement and promote quality improvement nationally. 

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