Quality improvement in practice: lessons from mental health

Finding the Right Leadership Style for Your Quality Improvement Agenda

Robert Varnam, UK. Applying scientific approaches to quality improvement in primary care requires effective leadership which creates vision, inspires commitment and embeds the use of new tools. Here, four international primary care improvement leaders evaluate the state of leadership for quality improvement in primary care, drawing out key lessons learned and challenges for the future.

Quality Improvement and Leadership in a Complex Environment. Department of Medicine Grand Rounds presentation by Thomas Staiger, MD.

We speak to three of our fellows (Tom Downes, Suzie Bailey and John Boulton) about how their experiences as Health Foundation fellows have helped them in their work to improve the quality of healthcare.

Implementing availability and quality for inpatients with bipolar disease at the Psychiatry Clinic Affektiva Johan Stålberg

This session will bring rapid Pecha Kucha style presentations from each group around the world that is applying quality improvement techniques to tackle complex problems in mental health services. Get a glimpse into the breadth and scale of mental health improvement work taking place across the globe.

Prospective studies have consistently shown an association between depression and increased mortality in older adults. A strong association exists between depression in late life and factors that increase mortality risk, such as poor adherence to medical treatment and self care for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, health behaviors such as smoking and lack of physical activity, cognitive impairment, and disability.

A Zero Harm approach to English Mental Health bed crisis - video poster by Ian Davidson (Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; UK)

The COVID-19 pandemic has profound implications for how we practice Quality Improvement (QI) in healthcare. But has it created a bigger role for QI, with increasing opportunities or has it put the nails in the coffin of QI as we know it? Six debaters will argue for and against this important but contentious motion, “COVID-19 has killed Quality Improvement”. Who will have the last word? Has COVID killed QI? Come find out – you decide the winner! After this session, participants will be able to: - Understand the arguments for and against “COVID-19 has killed Quality Improvement” - Experience a lively, active debate, argued from the head and the heart Have their perceptions about who thinks what challenged - Draw their own conclusions about whether “COVID-19 has killed Quality Improvement” Debate moderator: Helen Bevan, Horizons Team, NHS England and Improvement; England Join us this year by registering at http:/internationalforum.bmj.com

Paul Farmer, Chief Executive of Mind, talks about initiatives to improve children and young people's mental health, including Time to Change, England’s largest programme to end the stigma and discrimination faced by people with mental health problems.