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Joined Up Improvement brings together partners to collaboratively develop and deliver change ideas. Our purpose is to inspire ambition, foster innovation, and build the network, capability, and confidence to deliver successful and sustainable improvement outcomes for our population and people.
What we do
Conditions for change
- Establish shared purpose
- Stimulate motivation and energy
- Encourage engagement and participation by all
- Develop confidence in collaboration and co-design
- Foster public engagement and involvement
Consistency in design and delivery
- Support alignment of focus on strategic outcomes
- Establish and oversee standards
- Implement robust yet agile programme management processes
- Oversee good governance through responsive and proportional approach
- Apply best practice improvement tools and techniques
- Measure and assure realisation of outcomes and benefits
Capability and capacity
- Develop improvement leadership by all
- Build capacity and knowledge
- Offer education and coaching
- Facilitate collaborative ‘team’ approach
- Mobilise resources and align expertise
Continuous learning and ambition
- Appraise and learn from failure
- Encourage spread and adoption
- Share and celebrate success
- Foster innovation and ambition
- Appraise and support sustainability
Joined Up Improvement Exchange
Come along to the Exchange to share improvement ideas, learning, and developments. The Exchange is a great opportunity to hear about improvement planning and delivery across the Derby and Derbyshire system
You can view our previous exchanges here.
Joined Up Improvement Derbyshire Network
Space bringing together Improvement Teams and Organisational Development colleagues to develop collaborative system approaches to continuous quality improvement, including identifying and addressing any system support needs around capability, capacity, and improvement project delivery
Improvement Toolkit
To access a comprehensive collection of proven quality, service improvement and redesign tools, theories and techniques that will support your improvement work, you can use the NHS England Quality, service improvement and redesign (QSIR) tools.
You can search the collection alphabetically for a specific tool or browse groups of tools using one of four categories:
- Tools by stage of project – tools, theories and techniques for implementing an improvement project, ordered by the stage of project you are at, for example start out, handing over and sustaining etc.
- Tools by type of task– tools, theories and techniques associated with addressing specific tasks, for example mapping the process, thinking creatively etc.
- Tools by approach – tools, theories and techniques linked to a specific approach, for example Lean, Six Sigma, analytical tools etc.
- Tools by patient pathway – tools, theories and techniques that relate to the stages of the patient pathway.
- Full list of tools
You can access the Joined Up Care Derbyshire tools and support in involving and engaging people and communities with improvement.
Improvement Learning
‘Health and social care staff in Derby and Derbyshire can access a range of quality improvement development opportunities provided in-house by partner organisations – these opportunities are free to access and available to all staff, including colleagues from primary care, local authorities, and the voluntary, community, faith, and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector.
All quality improvement development opportunities are available in the QI Directory, which is accessed via the Joined Up Improvement Futures workspace: Development Opportunities – Improvement | Joined Up Care Derbyshire – Futures
The NHS Elect platform offers a growing library of online courses, including an Introduction to Quality Improvement comprising six modules that can be completed over four hours.
Improvement Teams
To get in touch with the Joined Up Improvement Derbyshire Team please email us at ddicb.pmoSupport@nhs.net
To find out more about or get in touch with the teams that support improvement within our provider organisations:
