Improve ONE thing:The Full QIP London School of Paediatrics.
Autumn 2025 (LONDON PLACEMENTS ONLY)
Course dates:
Online space opens for orientation: 22nd September 2025
Online learning starts: 29th September 2025
Virtual sessions (mandatory) –
Session #1: 105 mins Micro-session
Choice of date: w/c 13th & 20th October 2025
Session #2: Full day workshop Tuesday 4th November 2025
Session #3: 105 mins Micro-session
Choice of date: 1st & 8th December 2025
Session #4: Full day workshop Wednesday 8th January 2026
Course type:
Blended – Online and virtual workshops
Credentials:
30 CPD points
Level 1 and 2 QI in Progress Curriculum
Certificate of completion
Important Note:
Attendance at all virtual sessions is mandatory in order to claim fees from HEE and receive a certificate of completion.
Join your colleagues and follow in the footsteps of 250 London School of Paediatric trainees who’ve taken their own QI journey and become LSP Change Champions and role models.
Improve ONE thing: Paediatric QI change champions – is an innovative course designed for professionals at the London School of Paediatrics. QIClearn brings together paediatric trainees, consultants, nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals with patients and their carers.
As well as acquiring clinical skills to deliver good care to patient’s we know that medical trainees need to build skills to improve services. We also know that gathering evidence for maximum points is critical to landing the job you want next, and this course enables you to do just that. Benefit from experienced coaches, mentors and faculty who’ve stood in your shoes. Choose a structured way to learn, practice and evidence quality improvement and deliver benefits to patients that can live on when you’ve moved on.
Working alongside each other QIClearn will support you to design, test and implement meaningful improvements in 4 months. The Improve ONE thing ethos is about providing the right balance of theory and practice. So, we focus on the practical elements of improvement science and how improvement works on the ground in your healthcare context.
This programme is now fully virtual. Our online learning is designed to be ‘bite-sized’ and manageable for busy professionals and feedback from our first virtual workshops is as good as the face to face experience! Our instructors will support you to identify and describe a problem that you would like to work on, practice using quality improvement tools and techniques, implement small cycles of change and measure whether your changes have made a difference to patient care.
Your work will be supported by a group of mentors who have experience in using quality improvement methods in paediatric services. Their local expertise is also invaluable to the long-term sustainability of your improvements.
The emphasis of this course is on PRACTICAL activity and you will have support in the following areas:
- Designing your improvement project
- Implementing the Model for Improvement and PDSA cycles
- Understanding and practicing the QI techniques relevant to your improvement project
- Measurement for improvement: understanding how and deciding what to measure so that you know your improvement has made a difference
- Creating improvement project posters
- Submitting abstracts for the IHI/BMJ International forum for Quality and Safety in Healthcare and presenting posters
View one of the successful posters from the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Improve ONE thing courses.
This programme is open to paediatric trainees supported by the London School of Paediatrics (LSP) and consultants, qualified nurses, pharmacists, allied healthcare professionals, patients and carers from across London.
Anyone who wants to become a London School of Paediatrics Change Champion.
Anyone who wants to grow their confidence to mentor others participating in QI.
Completion of this programme evidences QI Level 1 and 2 in the RCPCH Progress Curriculum. It can also be used to evidence Quality Improvement for CPD, accreditation and re-validation purposes.
The purpose of this course it to teach you a structured improvement method that you can use again and again.
Completion of this course is often used as evidence to support curriculum requirements for Quality Improvement. Depending on the topic you work on you may also gather evidence for other domains such as Patient Safety, Leadership, Team working etc.
Funding routes
All Paediatric trainees with the London School of Paediatrics who register on this course are eligible to reclaim your course fees once you have participated in all four of the Virtual sessions.
For the purposes of reimbursement QIClearn issue a certificate of participation in taught sessions after Session 4 (WEEK 13).
A record of your payment is sent to you when you register.
If you are a Clinical Fellow you may also be eligible for reimbursement and we encourage you to seek authorisation from your educational supervisor or equivalent.
Payment options
Full payment is required at the time of registration to secure your place.
A record of your payment is sent to you when you register.
Alternative payment schedules are available on request accounts@qualityimprovementclinic.com
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£846
(including VAT at 20%)
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Online space opens for orientation: 22nd September 2025
Online learning starts: 29th September 2025
Virtual sessions (mandatory) –
Session #1: 105 mins Micro-session
Choice of date: w/c 13th & 20th October 2025
Session #2: Full day workshop Tuesday 4th November 2025
Session #3: 105 mins Micro-session
Choice of date: 1st & 8th December 2025
Session #4: Full day workshop Wednesday 8th January 2026
For LSP Trainees this course forms part of your approved study list
Please note our Terms & Conditions before booking
Teaching Faculty Leads
Learn from leaders with extensive experience in leadership and management and practical aspect of effecting sustained change in clinical services.
Jane Runnacles
Jane is a Consultant in General Paediatrics at St George’s Hospital, London. Her interests are in acute paediatrics, simulation, patient safety and quality improvement.
Jane is a Training Programme Director (TPD) for curriculum delivery, focusing on leadership development, for the London School of Paediatrics. She has also developed and delivered Quality Improvement education programmes for RCPCH. She is one of the clinical leads for the RCPCH paediatric medication safety programme MedsIQ.
Jane has worked with Nikki Davey on national Quality Improvement projects over many years. She has also been involved in the co-design of the ‘Improve ONE thing’ programme and contributed to the forerunner of this programme.
Nicola Davey
Nicola is a director and founder of the Quality Improvement Clinic (QIC) of which QIClearn is a subsidiary enterprise.
She leads the design and delivery of QIClearn programmes and excels in working with healthcare organisations to develop better patient services. In the past 3 years she has been overseen the development and use of innovative online digital learning and has integrated this into all QIClearn programmes.
She has designed, developed and delivered programmes to 1000’s of learners and has coached 100’s to complete Quality Improvement Projects in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical settings. Nicola is passionate about developing others and has helped many people develop themselves in order to teach others.
Nicola is a well-known and highly experienced quality improvement practitioner. This expertise and her passion for better services is translated into high-quality content for QIClearn participants.
A pharmacist by background she has over 30 years of experience in the healthcare sector. She has a post-graduate certificate in Advanced Improvement for Quality and Safety, is a trustee of the Clinical Human Factors Group and is a member of the Health Foundations College of Assessors and Q community.