SAM Improvement Exchange
Share. Learn. Improve together
A National platform for acute medicine teams to find improvement projects, share what works, connect on common challenges and help shape our national improvement priorities.
There is a constant demand for improvement in Acute Medicine to improve flow at the front door and improve the quality of care our patients receive.
Now more than ever Acute Medicine Teams need to know what works, how it worked and what improvement to expect in order to prioritise what to do in your own department.
Here are a number of improvement initiatives that have worked elsewhere in the Acute Medicine Departments across the Four Nations for inspiration and a guide to fast track delivering at your own centre.
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SDEC Initiatives
Managing Same Day Emergency Care in a cost pressured environment whilst ever expectation of it doing more and more work.
Emphasise the importance of optimising our processes.
Managing Same Day Emergency Care in a cost pressured environment whilst ever expectation of it doing more and more work.
Emphasise the importance of optimising our processes.
An improvement project to reduce telephone follow up appointments in Same Day Emergency Care(opens in new tab)(opens in new tab)
| Dr Benjamin Magnus, Dr Lucy Matthews, Dr Joanna Lindsay, Dr Charlie Shepard, Dr Frederick Henshaw, Dr Andiran Anduvan |
Rapid Assessment improving flow in sdec(opens in new tab)(opens in new tab)
Sarah Donovan, Chris Custard
AMU Flow Initiatives
Getting the flow of patients right through our medical take or through our departments have a great impact on the timing and quality of care patients get.
Cost neutral improvements to flow have substantial positive impacts to the Length of Stay our patients have, discharge rates and quality of care
Lister Hospital Acute Medicine Reset Reorganising the emergency medical patient admission pathway in a District General Hospital to improve flow(opens in new tab)(opens in new tab)
Dr Giles Neal , Acute Internal Medicine), Dr Ben Zalin , Dr Rowan Gossedge,
Education Initiatives
Getting teaching and training right in our departments have the benefit of giving our trainees a positive experience, creating a positive culture, improving their clinical knowledge and the effectiveness of our teams.
Setting up an Acute Medicine Feedback and Assessment Clinic : A new consultant’s Perspective(opens in new tab)(opens in new tab)
Dr Lewis Standing Consultant in Respiratory and Acute Medicine, Dr Christ Taylor Acute medicine, Dr Luke Ventress Acute Medicine
A Novel Educational Initiative in Acute Medicine(opens in new tab)(opens in new tab)
Dr Georgia Galloway, Dr Amrit Samra, Dr Susan Varughese
Casebook - A Novel Social Media-Style Platform - Enhances User-Reported Learning in Acute Medicine(opens in new tab)(opens in new tab)
Myles Woodman*, Kai Ze Christopher Cheng, Rihazur Rahman, Rui Jian Nathaniel Dale Chang, Rajaratnam Mathialagan
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