In this episode, I am in conversation with Tom Rollinson. Tom is an experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & healthcare industry. Tom talks about Lean methodology and some of the key tools he uses in a healthcare setting, amongst other things. Follow on X: @TheQI_Guy

In this episode I suggest we treat improvement ideas like a contagion and do the opposite of we know works to stop the spread of a virus…stay with me.

Welcome to another episode. I can’t about my experience using AI working non clinically in healthcare and specifically as an improver. Are you using AI? Follow on X: @TheQI_Guy

New year, new podcast format. We head into 2024 with a new format offering a weekly micro dosing of QI knowledge, experience and musings. In this first episode we explore why and how you can use social media positively within your professional life. Read more on this subject: https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?u=b7a3429cdeb2d9125de40e149&id=75069231ab&e=d4a0748c52/?u=b7a3429cdeb2d9125de40e149&id=75069231ab&awesome=no&e=d4a0748c52#Tips%20and%20strategies%20from%20the%20experts%20-%20Evolve%20your%20social%20media%20impact%20in%20evidence-based%20healthcare%20-%20Jonathan%20O%E2%80%99Reilly. Follow on X @TheQI_Guy

I am in conversation with Euan Winton. Euan is an Assistant Professor of Design at the School of Textiles and Design, Heriot-Watt University.For nearly the past 30 years Euan has been an academic and Creative Director, a design thinker with a passion for design’s ability to set agendas and to make change happen. An example of this is Euan's Ph.D. work “Empowering People Living with Dementia Through Designing” which is highly symbolic of my Co-design practices. During the chat, we spoke about Ideo as a great place to start your design journey. Visit the website here, https://www.ideo.com/eu Follow us on X @TheQI_Guy Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to the QI Guy in Conversation with. In this episode, I am chatting to Liv Evans. Liv is a Quality Improvement facilitator and is fairly new to the role, December 2022. We chat about how Liv came across QI, her journey into her current role, and what her current priorities are. Liv also shouts out for your help!

You can connect with Liv on Twitter @livvyfevans and find your tribe using the #QITwitter hashtag.

*Giveaway* Be sure to find the pinned tweet on @QI_Guy like and retweet it to be in with a chance to win a fab prize.

The episode you didn’t know you wanted. I ramble about my journey through the NHS and into the world of QI.

In this episode, I am in conversation with Brad Mellor. Brad is head of quality improvement for Mid Yorks Hospital Trust and has been since 2021. Brad is a Chartered Manufacturing System Engineer, a qualified teacher and has an MSc in Lean Enterprise. He first became involved in quality improvement when working in engineering and manufacturing with automotive manufacturers back in the 1990’s and was involved in the Rover 75 car production line. He completed formal lean training back in 2001 whilst at Hepworth Building Products where in his role as Project Manager led QI projects across 4 UK sites and in 2003 implemented the TotalProductive Maintenance program for Haribo. In 2004, Brad left manufacturing and trained as a secondary school teacher where he also became involved in launching new government initiatives focused on improving the quality of vocational provision. Bradley became a Director of engineering and assistant head at a technical college and guest lectured on an MSc at Leeds Beckitt University on the application of lean. At the end of 2018, Brad left his role and was accepted on a 2-year part-time executive study tour where he traveled to Shingo award-winning sites across Europe as part of his MSc in Lean Enterprise where he specialised in improvement science in healthcare. Bradley started at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust in February 2021 as Head of the KaizenPromotion Office and since then has worked with Virginia Mason Institute to implement a lean daily management system. Follow The QI Guy on Twitter @TheQI_Guy and make sure you like and subscribe to the podcast wherever you get yours.

On this episode we revisit my conversation with Paul Bowie from 2021.

Welcome to the QI Guy in Conversation with...podcast. In this episode, I'm in conversation with Pete Vesey. Pete came late to Occupational Therapy and qualified in 2006. Following a couple of years on Band 5 rotations, Pete worked in vocational rehabilitation for 5 years and a further 5 years in community pain management. He has worked for Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust since 2011. For much of his OT career, he has worked in new and developing services or forward-thinking teams which encouraged my appetite for developing and improving services, processes, and care. Having reached a decision point in his career between developing in clinical specialism or service improvement Pete was successful in joining the new Quality Improvement Team at Dorset Healthcare in 2018.  Since August 2022 he has been working informally as QI Lead as part of the new Transformation Team.  Since June 2022, Pete has been working 1 day a week on a fixed-term contract for the Royal College of Occupational Therapists on a project focussing on enabling members to understand and embed sustainability in their actions and work with service users.

 Links:

OT and Environmental Sustainability - ⁠Howto get involved - RCOT⁠               ⁠Sustainable Occupational Therapy | Centre for Sustainable Healthcare⁠

We revisit a season 1 bonus episode with Dan and Rachel from 15s30m. In this episode, I am in conversation with Dan and Rachel from 15s30m. 15 seconds 30 minutes (or 15s30m for short) aims to help anyone identify how they could spend a few extra seconds on a task now which will save someone else 30 minutes or more later on. In doing so you will reduce frustration and increase joy. We talk all 15s30m, how it began, how it helps staff reduce frustration and increase joy. Is 15s30m an ideal gateway to QI, we find out. To learn more visit: http://15s30m.co.uk/ Dan and Rachel also have fantastic TED x talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_pilling_dan_wadsworth_creating_joy_in_work_is_the_only_way_to_save_the_nhs Socials: @15s30m, @danwod and @miss_pilling Follow us: @TheQI_Guy, @JonathanO_QI

Worlds collide on this episode of the podcast as The QI Guy gets to merge his two passions - QI and Heavy Metal!

I am in conversation with Daniel Winter- Bates currently head of organisational development at NHS Hampshire, Southampton, and Isle of Wight ICB/ICS. Daniel is the previous freedom-to-speak-up lead and ex-Service improvement manager within The NHS. Knowledgeable in QI, facilitation, and culture change delivery.

Bury Tomorrow are a British metalcore band formed in 2006 in Southampton, Hampshire, England.

The new album, The Seventh Sun, is out on 31st March – if you are listening to this on publication day that’s tomorrow.

You can follow Daniel on social media - LinkedIn, Twitter, and IG

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On this episode of the podcast I’m in conversation with Laura Neil. Laura is Lead for Allied Health Professions and Interim Head of Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement in NHS 24. Laura is an occupational therapist. Although always interested in service development she first became involved more formally in quality improvement whilst working at UCLPartners, an Academic Health Science Network in London, initially as Frailty Fellow and then as programme manager, completing the Sheffield Microsystem Coaching Academy programme during this time. She then worked at North East London NHS Foundation trust as Director of Quality Improvement and Director of AHPs and Psychological Therapies. This role included establishing a new Quality Improvement Programme in the Trust; over the five years she was in post this grew to having delivered QI awareness sessions to over 5000 staff, training over 300 QI facilitators and 30 QI mentors. Whilst in this role she also completed the IHI Improvement Advisor programme, was Clinical Lead in the Incident Management Team from March 2020-Jan 2021 and AHP Director in the second iteration of the London Nightingale from Dec 2020-March 2021. Laura moved back to Scotland in August 2021. Follow Laura on Twitter: @lauraneilAHP. To find out more about NHS 24 visit: nhs24.Scot or Twitter: @NHS24.

In this episode, I am in conversation with Belinda Dewar. Belinda is currently Visiting Professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Director of Wee Culture which aims to support people to explore and enhance culture through appreciative inquiry and Co-Director of My Home Life International which is a social movement which uses Appreciative Inquiry, Relationship Centred Practice and Caring Conversations to enhance the lives of those who live work and visit care settings. She was recently awarded an OBE for her contribution to nursing. She uses and develops approaches that build on what currently works and understand why; uncover practices and experiences that are known but rarely said; involve everyone; can be used in everyday work; are provocative and make real differences to people.  A strand that threads through all of her work is the belief that in every system something works well and there is transformative potential in noticing these happenings, amplifying these and support people to enable them to happen more of the time. Learn more here: Resources for Practice – My home life Scotland (uws.ac.uk) Follow Belinda on LinkedIn: Belinda Dewar Subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcasts #applepodcasts #spotifypodcasts #anchorpodcasts Follow The QI Guy on Twitter: @TheQI_Guy

In this episode, I am in conversation with Claire Cox and Helen Hughes. 

Claire is an experienced nurse of over 25 years. She has worked in numerous specialties in the NHS and in different places around the world, from being a repatriation nurse to volunteering in refugee camps and striking up collaborations with nurses in America. More recently, Claire has worked as a Critical Care Outreach Sister since 2011, where her desire for patient safety was ignited.

After winning the Kent Surrey and Sussex Patient Safety Prize in 2016 for her work in cardiac arrest and medical emergency teams, Claire went on to complete the Darzi fellowship in April 2019. It was around this time that Claire began working with Patient Safety Learning.

In September 2020, Claire began an exciting new role as Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Manager for Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, then onto Kings College NHS Foundation NHS Trust as a Patient Safety Lead.

Helen is Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning, a charity and independent voice for patient safety. Her passion for improved patient safety is informed by personal family insight into the impact of unsafe care and the ineffectiveness of organisational responses to learn from error.

Helen is an experienced leader in organisational effectiveness and transformational change. She has held leadership roles in healthcare in the UK and the WHO, the National Patient Safety Agency, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman and the Charity Commission.

Follow Claire and Helen on Twitter: @safetynurse999 and @helenh49

Learn more about the patient safety learning hub: www.pslhub.org and patient safety learning: www.patientsafetylearning.org

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I am in conversation with Dr Tammy Watchorn. Following a career in scientific research, Tammy moved to working in the public sector and volunteering for the third sector on change, innovation, and transformation. Along the way Tammy has researched, tested, developed and implemented different processes, tools and methods for individual and team learning, leadership, creativity, innovation, collaboration, agile and user centred design. Tammy and I discuss some of these approaches including Lego Serious Play and neuroscience for change.

Find out more by visiting: https://tammywatchorn.com/

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This episode sees me in conversation with Lou Waters. Lou is an experienced improver using the power of social media to connect and build networks across the globe. Lou and I discuss #QITwitter and the successful #QIHour tweet chat series.

You can follow Lou on Twitter: @LouWaters_QI

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This week I'm in conversation with.. Alex Barker. Alex leads the Be More Pirate community. Alex joined Sam Conniff in 2019 to give life to Be More Pirate as something beyond a book. Before piracy, she was Communications Manager at the RSA (Royal Society of Arts), and has spent a decade or so in the non-profit sector building networks and supporting social entrepreneurs. Alex leads the network and would like nothing more than to see a less conventional approach to social change take root. Follow Alex on Twitter: @alexandrabarke1 and visit her website. Be More Pirate Website: https://www.bemorepirate.com/ Buy the books: Be More Pirate and How To Be More Pirate and Listen to the podcast. Be sure to follow The QI Guy on Twitter: @TheQI_Guy

On this episode I’m in conversation with Becky Thomas. Becky is a Senior Nurse for QI and host of the Leadership Log podcast. A Florence Nightingale Scholar exploring all things leadership. You can follow Becky on Twitter @Becky_QICTM Download the Leadership Log Podcast and follow @leadership_log Becky mentioned 'The Zone of Genius' click to taken to the book Follow @TheQI_Guy

In this episode, I'm in conversation with the fantastic Sonia Sparkles. Sonia is a senior manager in Healthcare and an advanced practitioner in quality improvement. Sonia leads the way in illustrating Sketchnotes. Sketchnotes, as you will find out, are all about simplifying and communicating complex subjects using a mix of simple drawings and notes. Sonia and I talk about getting started in sketchnotes, what it takes to have a go and chat about some of her favourite sketchnotes. You can follow Sonia on Twitter @sonia_sparkles or visit the website https://soniasparkles.com/ Follow @TheQI_Guy on Twitter for updates on future episodes.