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Quality improvement
in general practice.
Leading through
purpose & possibility
Dr Robert Varnam MRCGP PhD MSc
Head of general practice development
@robertvarnam
robert.varnam@nhs.net
28.04.15
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How hard
can it be?
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What do you want to achieve
for patients in your practice?
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How do you feel?
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Health & wellbeing-promoting care
Right access
Holistic, personalised, proactive
& coordinated care
Wider primary care at scale
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How do others respond
when change is proposed?
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Leading with purpose.
Lashing with compliance or unleashing
commitment.
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How do you feel?
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What stories do we tell?
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Birth
Postnatal midwife
assesses risk
Midwife gives
Vitamin D
End
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Birth
Postnatal midwife
assesses risk
Midwife writes
to GP
End
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End
Discharge
Birth
Health visitor
assesses risk
Health visitor
gives Vitamin
D
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End
Discharge
Birth
Health visitor
assesses risk
Health visitor
writes to GP
GP issues
prescription
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End
Discharge
Birth
GP/PN assesses
risk in baby clinic
GP issues
prescription
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End
Discharge
Birth
GP assesses risk
at postnatal check
GP issues
prescription
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End
End
Discharge
Birth
Postnatal midwife
assesses risk
Midwife gives
Vitamin D
Midwife writes
to GP
GP assesses risk
at postnatal check
GP/PN assesses
risk in baby clinic
Health visitor
assesses risk
Health visitor
gives Vitamin
D
Health visitor
writes to GP
GP issues
prescription
End
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End
End
Discharge
Birth
Postnatal midwife
assesses risk
Midwife gives
Vitamin D
Midwife writes
to GP
GP assesses risk
at postnatal check
GP/PN assesses
risk in baby clinic
Health visitor
assesses risk
Health visitor
gives Vitamin
D
Health visitor
writes to GP
GP issues
prescription
End
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How do you feel?
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Vitamin D prophylaxis
Leading with purpose
vimeo.com/76794094
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Leading with possibility.
The problem
of human performance.
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How does good care happen?
Be a good person
Train well
Maintain good intentions
Work hard
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Please pay attention…
Watch the video
There is a team wearing white shirts and a team wearing
dark shirts
 Count all passes made by the white team
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Remember …
Be a good person
Train well
Maintain good intentions
Work hard
Improving quality in primary care. Leading with purpose and possibility.
www.england.nhs.uk @robertvarnam @NHSEngland
Remember …
Be a good person
Train well
Maintain good intentions
Work hard
Improving quality in primary care. Leading with purpose and possibility.
www.england.nhs.uk @robertvarnam @NHSEngland
‘You can’t change the human condition,
but you can change the conditions
under which humans work’
James Reason
Error is normal
... what are you going to do
about it?
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OUTPUTS
HUMAN
FACTORS
HUMAN
FACTORS
INTERNAL PROCESSES & PROCECEDURES
INPUTS
Success = systems x people
Whether I like it or not, it’s not just about me.
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Vincent, C. A. (2004). Analysis of clinical incidents: a window on the system not a search for root causes. Qual Saf Health Care, 13(4), 242–3.
What is ‘the system’?
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What is ‘the system’?
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New improvement design principles
Be a good person
Train well
Maintain good intentions
Work hard
Make it easier to do the right thing
Make it harder to do the wrong thing
Spot & stop inevitable errors
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Leading with possibility.
The model for improvement.
VIDEO
Gever Tully, Tinker School
TED Talk
bit.ly/1Iia0vh
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How do you feel?
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Prototyping
• anything that tests an idea and answers a question
• helps test boundaries and manage risk
• is less about the actual ‘product’ and more about the
interaction it provokes
Start small
A prototype needs only to
be as good as it needs to
be in order to learn more
about the idea.
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Peter Van Manen, MD McLaren Electronic Systems.
• Easy to simulate. ‘You can’t move for laptops.’
• Reliance on data. ‘Measurement is cheaper than mistakes.’
• Easy to mock-up. ‘Don’t pontificate, prototype.’
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Talk it or try it ?
This is my idea.
I’m right.
Do it!
We tried a couple of
ideas, and this
happened.
versus
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What are we trying to accomplish?
How will we know that change is an improvement?
What change can we make that will result in improvement?
The Model for Improvement
Langley, G., Nolan, K., and Nolan, T., 1994. The Foundation of Improvement, Quality Progress, June 1994
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PDSA Cycles
SOMETHING
BIG!
A P
DS
How can we achieve this?
A P
DS
A P
DS
A P
DS
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This is not the same as audit !
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Your turn ...
Plan
Do
Study
Act
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PDSA vs audit?
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What’s the big ambition?
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How could we chunk it down?
How could we test it out?
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Are you a leader?
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Don Berwick myth-busting
livestream.com/IFQSH/ForumLIVE
What's wrong with audit?
bit.ly/WhatsWrongWithAudit1
Introduction to driver diagrams
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The Productive General Practice
bit.ly/PGP2014
What next?
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Leading with purpose
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Burning platform or burning ambition
youtu.be/Tfn6vD4yyC4
These slides
What next?
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• Berwick, D.M., 1996. A primer on leading the improvement of
systems. BMJ : British Medical Journal, 312(7031), pp.619-622.
• Varnam, R.M., Dawda, P. & Jenkins, R., 2010. Quality
improvement in general practice. Discussion paper., London:
The King’s Fund.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/current_projects/gp_inquiry/dimensions_
of_care/quality_improvement.html
• Bendell, T., Penson, R. & Carr, S., 1995. The quality gurus –
their approaches described and considered. Managing Service
Quality, 5(6), pp.44-48.
www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/09604529510104383
• Langley, G. et al., 2009. The improvement guide : a practical
approach to enhancing organizational performance 2nd ed.,
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 978-0470192412
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