Course
Intermediate
Improvement
Improvement in Action
Are you passionate about improving your services and eager to turn ideas into action? This programme is designed to guide you and your team through planning, implementing, and testing an improvement initiative.
Over approximately six months, the programme will involve three training days and a final sharing event; you’ll learn to define your project scope, use evidence and systems thinking, develop aims, test changes, and demonstrate impact.

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What the course provides:
Day 1
Determining your scope
Framing your work around an evidence base
Systems thinking
Working with others
Day 2
Demonstrating outcomes and impact
Developing an aim
Making the right change
Day 3
Making the right change continued
Testing/piloting changes
Day 4 - Sharing event
Share your initiative’s progress
Scale up and spread
Outcomes of the course:
Development of improvement skills and knowledge, as well as a deeper understanding of the importance of measurement and the confidence to use data. Delivery of an improvement project with demonstrable learning and impact, and the ability to plan next steps and additional projects. You will also work on next steps in terms of developing a network of peers across the Trust, as well as contributing to the evidence base around effective care.
Who would find this course useful?
Those interested in teams leading support to deliver improvement initiatives, and would like support and training to work across Trust systems and with individuals who access and use our services.
This training is delivered by:

Anita DeHavilland
Quality Improvement Specialist
Next available dates:
mprovement in Action C2 – Portsmouth Day 1 | 5th March | 0900-1600 | In- person |
Day 2 | 26th May | 0900-1600 | In- person |
Day 3 | 14th July | 0900-1600 | In- person |
Improvement in Action C3 – Portsmouth Day1 | 28th July | 0900-1600 | In- person |
Day2 | 7th Sept | 0900-1600 | In- person |
Day 3 | 20th Oct | 0900-1600 | In- person |
Improvement in Action C2/3 Celebration event | TBC Nov | 0900-1600 | In- person |
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