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The NHG Quality Day 2023 was held on 22 September 2023, Thursday at Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) as a hybrid event. Thi​s year's theme, "Sustaining Quality in Healthcare – Nurturing Growth Now & Beyond", pays tribute to NHG's continuous quest for quality and improvement. View the event poster here.

Click on the links below to find out more about the winning projects for 2023:

Improving and Sustaining Quality & Safety

  1. Improving Operational Efficiency of Medication Delivery Services for Dermatology Outpatients
  2. Improving the "time-to-diagnosis" for patients with gross hematuria​
  3. Increasing the Evaluation of Patients with Extremely Elevated Cholesterol for Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) in Toa Payoh Polyclinic
  4. Sustainability Phase: Increase Rate of Osteoporosis Workup Ordered for Patients with Distal Radius Fractures
  5. Sustainability Phase: Reduction in Superficial Incisional Surgical Site Infections for Open Emergency Abdominal Surgery Patients​
  6. Time to Take the Pressure Off: Reducing Facial Pressure Injuries from Non-Invasive Ventilation (Sustainability Phase)

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Service Redesign and Delivery

  1. Ambulatory Care in Emergency Surgery (ACES): Reducing Admissions and Length of Stay for Surgical Patients
  2. Improving ROTEM Timings in Major Trauma Patients
  3. Increase the Proportion of Gout Patients Achieving Target Serum Uric Acid by 12 Months of Follow-up
  4. Integrated MSK Care - Rapid Assessment and Physiotherapy for Patients In NeeD (RAPID)
  5. Reducing Average Length of Stay for Elective Total Hip Replacement Patients​
  6. Safe and Cost-efficient TCU transfers​

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Developing a Flexib​le and Sustainable Workforce

  1. Improving Delirium Management in Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)
  2. Increasing the Rate of Advance Care Plan Completion Among Palliative Medicine Inpatients
  3. Reduction in General Surgery Specialist Outpatient Clinic Appointments for Surgically Treated Abscess Patients
  4. Starting on Time

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Building Strong Partnerships in Improvement Work

  1. Reducing the Duration of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
  2. Timely Dialysis for Haemodialysis Patients who Present to Emergency Department with Severe Hyperkalemia

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Innovation in Healthcare

  1. Improving patient’s accessibility to their medication information via QR codes
  2. Reducing the use of physical restraints in agitated patients with Dementia
  3. TTSH INR Remote Monitoring Service

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Junior Medical Doctors

  1. A Day at a Time: Reducing the Wait for Inpatient Transthoracic Echocardiograms for Cardiology Patients​
  2. Improving the Actualisation Rate of Foot Surveillance Programme in Toa Payoh Polyclinic
  3. Reducing SABA Monotherapy in Asthma Patients at Toa Payoh Polyclinic​​

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