QI Essentials
QI Essentials
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The Quality Improvement Primary Care team are happy to announce the return of QI Essentials online Quality Improvement Training.
Attendees will learn about the stages of quality planning and quality improvement, as well as key QI tools. Attendees will have the chance to work through examples and to talk to their peers about how these tools can be used in practice.
Across the course, attendees will learn about:
The model for improvement,
Aim statements and different frameworks to write these,
Stakeholder experience and its importance,
Process maps, how to build them and some uses for them
Fishbone diagrams, how to build them and use them for improvement,
Pareto charts, how to build them and use them in improvement,
Data over time and its importance for improvement,
Family of measures,
Driver diagrams and how to build them,
Change ideas,
PDSA cycles and
Scale up and spread definitions.
Cohort 14: May/June 2025
Tuesday 13th May, 10:30-12:00
Tuesday 20th May, 10:30-12:00
Tuesday 27th May, 10:30-12:00
Tuesday 3rd June, 10:30-12:00
Cohort 15: September/October 2025
Wednesday 10th September, 10:30-12:00
Wednesday 17th September, 10:30-12:00
Wednesday 24th September, 10:30-12:00
Wednesday 1st October, 10:30-12:00
If you are interested in attending a future cohort, please complete the form below to register your interest.
Please note: This training is only available to NHS Lothian Primary Care staff.
“Thank you, it was an enjoyable introduction to a new subject. The course kept my interest throughout and I feel it will be beneficial to my area.”
“The presenters were very engaging and excellent communicators.”