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Brockworth
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Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 073-2122
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
1. What the name of the departments. is that
provides improvement, service
improvement, quality improvement,
continuous improvement or internal
consultancy services to your organisation?
Strategy and Partnership Directorate – Quality
Improvement Hub.
2. The job titles. for the manager or
executive responsible for quality
improvement work in your organisation.
Associate Director – Quality Improvement and
Transformation.
3. The names. of any formal improvement
methodology or approach that your
organisation uses for quality improvement,
continuous improvement, service
improvement or internal consultancy
projects.
GHC has developed Pocket QI, Bronze QI and
Silver QI- ongoing development for Silver QI. We
base our QI on IHI model for Improvement,
however have also drawn from QI hub colleagues
trained as Flow Coaching Academy Flow Coach,
QSIR practitioners, and working with ICS system
QI community.
4. The details of any awards or external
recognition that your organisation has
received for quality improvement projects /
work in the last 3 years.
ICS system partner in in Q community work on
“Improvers Without Borders” project.
5. The approximate staff Full Time Equivalent
FTE. inside the teams. identified in the
answer to question 1 and the job titles of
staff within those teams.
Title FTE
QI Administrator 1.00
QI Facilitator 1.00
QI Manager 1.00
QI Manager 1.00
6. The approximate staff Full Time Equivalent
FTE. outside of the teams. identified in
the answer to question 1.
7. The approximate total budget that your
organisation has allocated to quality
improvement in each of the last 3 years
As the Transformation & QI Hub has only been
established within the 20/21 Financial Year, only
information for that year has been included below.
Estimated total budget for dedicated QI function in
20/21 equals £202,914
8. The approximate number of staff trained in quality improvement in each of the last 3 years
financial or calendar years – whichever is easiest..
Here are the figures for QI training for GHC staff 2019 – to present. The Bronze and the Pocket will be
accurate, the QSIR will be broadly correct, based on the data they supplied to us.
Bronze QI Training – number of participants GHC and former 2g/GCS.
2019 115
2020 22
2021 28
Pocket QI participants GHC.
2021 60
QSIR Training – number of participants GHC and former 2g/GCS estimated.
2019 38
2020 10
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Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
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Brockworth
GLOUCESTER GL3 4AW
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On behalf of Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust