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  • 2023Highly commended

    Hayley Potter, Old Golf House Vet Group

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    Hayley achieved improved team morale and engagement by focusing on wellbeing and recognition, significantly enhancing workplace culture.
    Quality improvementCommunication and teamwork
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  • 2023Highly commended

    Lesley Moore, IVC Evidensia

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    Lesley achieved a 70% decrease in the use of antibiotics and an improvement in steroid and cleaner use following an ear cytology pilot.
    Quality improvementAntimicrobial stewardship (AMS)Medicine
  • 2023Highly commended

    Nicole Dyer, Ash Tree Vets, VetPartners

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    Nicole audited the effects of introducing lidocaine to the analgesia protocol for dog castrates, which showed a positive impact both financially and environmentally.
    Quality improvementSmall animalsSurgery and anaesthesia
  • 2023Highly commended

    Old Golf House Veterinary Group

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    This team submitted a sustainability application looking at various ways of reducing their carbon footprint. They focused on auditing the consumption of energy and consumables and a true data set will be analysed over a 12-month basis.
    Quality improvementOne Health
  • 2023Highly commended

    Roundhouse Referrals

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    Roundhouse Referrals, Linnaeus, focused on improving infection control by looking at the frequency of punctures of their surgical gloves and changing their gloves to ones that punctured less.
    Quality improvementSurgery and anaesthesia
  • 2023Highly commended

    Roundhouse Referrals

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    Roundhouse Referrals conducted a retrospective audit to assess adaptations since their 2022 TPLO and QI project, and found there had been several improvements.
    Quality improvementSurgery and anaesthesia
  • 2023Highly commended

    Samantha McGaw, Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, RVC

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    Samantha carried out a retrospective process audit to assess the current nutritional support provisions and measure interventions which saw a greater awareness and improved prioritisation of nutritional support for ECC patients.
    Quality improvementPatient care
  • 2023Highly commended

    Tawny Kershaw, IVC Evidensia

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    Tawny carried out a hypothermia audit for peri-operative temperatures by looking at the processes in place and measuring updated protocols. All audit measures showed an improvement following their interventions.
    Quality improvementSurgery and anaesthesia
  • 2023Highly commended

    The Queens Veterinary School Hospital

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    The Queens Veterinary School Hospital of the University of Cambridge developed structures and systems to help the integration of QI across the teaching hospital environment.
    Quality improvement
  • 2023Highly commended

    VetsNow Sheffield

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    VetsNow Sheffield focused on reducing errors and improving customer service when dealing with individual cremations through a process and outcome audit of procedures for handling cremations.
    Quality improvementPatient care
  • 2023One to watch

    BARTA

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    BARTA provided evidence-based guidelines and training for emergency first responders to provide pre-veterinary immediate care and developed a handover checklist to use when handing over to veterinary professionals.
    Quality improvementMedicinePatient care
  • 2023One to watch

    Emmeline Macedo, Blue Cross

    Quality Improvement in Practice
    Emmeline carried out a process and outcome audit for anaesthetic fresh gas flow rates to gain insight and evidence to drive team training on anaesthetic circuit use.
    Quality improvementSurgery and anaesthesia