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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Course
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:
Cohort 1
Thursday 2nd October 9.00-12.00pm
Monday 8th December 9.00-12.00pm
Monday 2nd February 9.00-12.00pm
Cohort 2 will begin on Thursday 5th March 2026
Cohort 3 will begin on Monday 27th July 2026
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