Quality

Our aim is to provide support, training, guidance and facilitation in improving the quality of our services and to enable teams to sustain changes by the delivery of lean across the organisation, based upon the Virginia Mason Production System (VMPS).  

Considering the sustainability of our improvements is also vital to ensure we are delivering the best possible service for today without compromising the needs of future generations. Considering Sustainability in Quality Improvement (SusQI) is one way we are working towards the NHS Net Zero ambitions. 

Our offer supports the Trust to embed improvement routines in daily work, supporting large or complex improvement projects and training staff in improvement methodologies. We also facilitate the sharing of learning and deliver Quality Awards to recognise continuous improvement efforts. 

​​​​The Clinical and Practice Network is open to all staff, offering support for continuous improvement. The Network will guide the individual or group to achieve their outcomes and will amplify their voice to ensure that they are heard, to enable a positive impact for service users and staff.  

Our Systems and Partnerships Continuous Improvement Team works with MPFT teams and our integrated care system partners, staff, service users and carers to enable quality improvements across our integrated health and care systems through connecting, learning, sharing and improving together. 

We, at MPFT, are co-founders of a system wide Quality Improvement Network and offer our staff the opportunity to be members. 

The Network is hosted by NHS Quality Improvement colleagues from across our Integrated Care Systems.  The Network attracts staff from all areas of the health and care sector both locally and further afield.  The Network is open to all those interested in how we can improve services for the benefit of our patients, services users and carers, through Quality Improvement methods. 

Join us in improving services for the communities we serve.  Engaging, involving and working together with those who access and experience our services is a 'golden thread' running through all our Continuous Improvement work.  Our aim is for Co-production to be the default approach.  Our ambition is to engage with and enable those who experience our services to get involved in improvement initiatives with us.  Patients, services users and carers bring a wealth of user experience and a fresh perspective that is so important.  Join us to ensure that our patients, service users and carers voices are heard and help us to ensure we keep the communities we serve at the heart of everything we do.     

Find out more by contacting systemcqi@mpft.nhs.uk or sign up to the network here 

This is free online training open to everyone.   This training has been co-produced with lived experience colleagues and is co-delivered with us at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, North Staffs Combined Healthcare NHS Trust and University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Foundation Trust. 

The aim of the training is to give people an understanding of how we approach improvement work and give a taster to some of the tools and techniques we use when working together to improve our services.  The hope is that people who undertake this training will feel inspired and have the confidence to join us on a wide range of improvement activities.  Essentially, we want to make sure that people with lived experience are at the heart of all of our improvement work and help to drive the decisions that shape these improvements. 

If you, or someone you know, is interested in joining this training please follow this link to book. 

All enquiries are welcome by email to  systemCQI@mpft.nhs.uk