Improve One Thing: Overview
Our Improve ONE thing courses focus on ONE area of improvement at a time which builds participants understanding and their confidence. Designed with busy professionals in mind, our learning content distils what participants really need to know and do to make changes to patient care. It’s a tried and tested approach that has inspired hundreds of healthcare professionals to make lasting improvements. With mentor support and CPD accreditation you can choose the full QIP Improve ONE thing programme, or split the programme into 3 shorter courses: Getting Started, Designing a QI Project, Testing & Implementing Change.
These courses are 4 months in length with 2 virtual workshops and coaching throughout. We offer a course open to all trainees here (OPEN), a designated course for London School of Paediatrics which can be found here. Plus our latest Improve ONE thing: Maternity course is now open for registration here.
Benefit from a wealth of support and information to help learners succeed. Discover case studies Child Health QI posters, get support from mentors who have been through the courses themselves. We often have parent learners attending our courses which add a valuable perspective throughout.
Our courses result in measurable change. Discover how to close the audit loop and see the change. Make a difference where you are right now. Our coaches are reviewers for poster publications, reviewers for BMJ quality and safety, experts in QI and leadership and have been coaching learners for many years.
We help individuals get access to our courses and we also work with organisations to offer these courses to their teams. We provide support and evidence not only to the learners, but the organisations too.
Don’t just take our word for it, “I’ve just taken a look at our learner progress report. This is GOLD!!!! thank you guys. I wish I was able to do this as a trainee.This will be so fantastic for our Senior career paediatric intensivist international trainees who will be returning home to help develop paediatric intensive care in many regions of the world.” Paediatric Intensivist, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
If you want to break down your journey, you can choose to break down Improve ONE thing QIP into 3 smaller courses.
Getting Started gives you the QI learning evidence you need, in small, bite-sized chunks of learning. You get the evidence you need as a trainee, reducing stress with a structured and helpful flow of learning that can be accessed anywhere at anytime to suit you. Access to QI coaching support to make sure you stay on track and chose something suitable. Build a QI project that is so good, you can build on it throughout your journey from trainee to your sub- specialty. Re – use and build on tour QI project and make your learning work for you.
Designing a QI Project challenges you and equips you with a scientific change method to put you on course to maximise your learning and your impact. This course draws on the diagnostics that have given you a deeper understanding of the problem you want to work on. It takes you through the questions you need to answer to say with confidence whether or not a change has occurred.
Testing & Implementing change works through the theory that testing ideas is your ticket to failing safe and learning fast. This course takes you through tiny Plan-Do-Study-Act test cycles, allowing you to practice the technique. This generates confidence in what works and what doesn’t, and a record of sustained change and learning for those who follow.