• Are you interested in leading change and improvements around Sepsis in your clinical area?
• Do you want to hear about the local and national changes that impact on our Trust?
• Want to have access to the tools which will support you to do it?

Quality Improvement Nurse Gill Davis (pictured) is inviting doctors, nurses and therapy colleagues from across CHFT to come along and get involved in a Trust-wide session.

Colleagues will hear more about the new NCEPOD (National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death), as well as looking to develop action plans for the coming months.

Gill has worked for CHFT for 11 years. Her previous role was lead nurse for the Virtual hub, where she liaised with community services to reduce readmissions and provide care closer to home.

Gill said “For me this is quite simple – it’s about helping colleagues recognise and treat Sepsis so we can improve the quality of care and save lives.”

As a Trust we participate in The Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUINs) payments framework. This encourages providers like CHFT to share and continually improve how care is delivered and to achieve transparency and overall improvement in healthcare.

Ultimately for our patients this means a better experience, involvement and outcomes. But it also means that if we achieve the improvement targets set with the commissioners we generate revenue for our Trust which can be reinvested back into services for our patients.

Gill added “We’ve made great inroads into our CQUIN with compliance of around 60% at present. I’m hopeful the session will energise colleagues as they talk and work together about how we can improve further and boost that figure to 90% by the end of March.”

The session will be held on Thursday 21 January between 12.00 and 16.00 in the Board Room at HRI.

Please register your interest with Gill so she has an idea on who will be attending. You can contact her on 07833 528217 or email her gill.davis@cht.nhs.uk