More than 40 colleagues attended Our Sharing Learning-Improving Care summit at HRI Learning Centre.

They were joined by representatives from Kirkwood Hospice.

Quality and Safety's Anne-Marie Henshaw facilitated the event, our CEO Owen  Williams came along to open it and we also heard from our Chief Nurse Ellen Armistead.

The purpose of the summit was to look at how we can identify learning, how learning is used to influence changes in practice and how we can share learning more effectively across the Trust. 

We heard the experience of a patient, which demonstrated why learning is important. 

Organiser Laura Bailey, from the Safety and Quality team, said: "Rebecca did really well to share her story with the help of Gerard Curran, and there wasn't a dry eye in the room!"

A SOP has been put in place as the family did not want this to happen to anyone else.

We had an activity where attendees looked at a number of case studies to identify the learning and understand how this is different to identifying actions. 

Ellen Armistead shared some of the good practice she has seen at other Trusts around learning and also gave a personal story as to why learning is important and the impact changes can make. 

There was a presentation on the NHSI transition collaborative work from Amanda Mckie. 

Attendees also did an activity to discuss how learning is currently shared and how this can be improved. Their ideas were hung up on a 'bright ideas' wall. 

We ended the day looking at different ways in which we can learn, such as the educational video 'Sepsis and you know it', which was produced by members of the ED team. This was presented by Liz McCarthy who explained the fun theory and how this can make learning more effective.