Quality Day 2017

​​​​​​​Quality Day 2017 was the first major event to take place following NHG's formal cluster amalgamation on 1 October 2017. Staff from the new NHG institutions - Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), Yishun Community Hospital (YCH) and Woodlands Health Campus (WHC) - joined in the annual celebration of Quality. The theme of the year was "Collaborative Relationships: Co-creating value in communities", which highlights the importance of effective collaboration between NHG, its patients and its partners.

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QIA Winning Posters 2017

​​​​Click on the links below to find out more about the winning posters:
  

Building Strong Partnerships in Improvement Work

• To improve the proportion of appropriate referrals to the Pace-CVM round

• Improving Operational Efficiency of Managing Patient Assistance Programmes of Biologic Drugs for Dermatology Outpatients in National Skin Centre

Developing a Flexible and Sustainable Workforce

• Prevention of deconditioning

• Reducing manual packing errors for prescriptions processed at TTSH B2 Pharmacy

• Improve respiratory care of neuromuscular disease patients

Improving and Sustaining Quality and Safety

• Inpatient hypoglycemia reduction bundle

• Reducing the percentage of diabetic inpatients experiencing out-of-range blood glucose levels

• To reduce the use of Controlled Psychotropic Drugs (CPDs) for long stay patients in Institute of Mental Health by 50 per cent within 12 months

• Improving nutrition delivery in MICU

• To reduce patients' waiting time by improving the efficiency of OPAS packing workflow at Bukit Batok Pharmacy

• Paracetamol overdose and use of IV N-Acetylcysteine (NAC)

• Implementation of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) programme for elective colorectal surgery: A single institution's experience

• Optimising queue management to improve waiting time for patients at Hougang Pharmacy

   

Innovation in Healthcare

• Battling the bugs: Reducing early catheter-related bloodstream Infection in haemodialysis patients

• Impact of airway clearance compliance on patients attending the one-stop bronchiectasis Specialist Outpatient Clinic (SOC)

Service Redesign and Delivery

• Right-siting of Acute Ambulatory Care (Emergency Department) to general practitioners

• Redesigning workflow and nursing training to reduce length-of-stay to improve outcomes for benign prostate hyperplasia patients undergoing transurethral resection of prostate

• Communication between healthcare workers and intubated patients in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)

• Improving RAI consultation default rate by 40 per cent from Jan 2016 to Jan 2017

• To improve the compliance of pre-operative preparations for elective colorectal surgery

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