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Tool / guidance

20 August 2024

Cause and effect (fishbone) diagram template

Find out more about how to work through a fishbone diagram and download a template to use.

Quality improvementCommunication and teamworkAudits and benchmarks
Tool / guidance

20 August 2024

Contributory factors checklist

Use this checklist when doing a significant event audit to understand why an event happened.

Quality improvementCommunication and teamworkAudits and benchmarks
Tool / guidance

20 August 2024

Significant event audit report template

Use this template to structure your report following a significant event audit.

Quality improvementCommunication and teamworkAudits and benchmarks
Tool / guidance

20 August 2024

Significant event audit walkthrough

Learn more about the key stages of a significant event audit.

Quality improvementCommunication and teamworkAudits and benchmarks
Podcast

15 August 2024

Knowledge Natter: Could we improve our carbon footprint?

Yorkshire Vets

Hear from Yorkshire Vets about their nurse-led initiative to reduce the use of oxygen and volatile anaesthetic gasses.

Quality improvementPatient careAudits and benchmarks
Podcast

15 August 2024

Getting started with quality improvement for practice managers, with Cath Grimsey

Pinkham Equine Veterinary Service

Hear from Pinkham Equine Veterinary Services about the role of management in quality improvement.

Quality improvementCommunication and teamwork
Tool / guidance

14 August 2024

Fresh gas flow rate calculator

Yorkshire Vets

Use this tool to help you calculate fresh gas flow rates.

Quality improvementSurgery and anaesthesia
Case example

14 August 2024

Could we improve our carbon footprint?

Yorkshire Vets

Explore an award-winning nurse-led clinical audit on fresh gas flow rates.

Quality improvementOne HealthAudits and benchmarks
Tool / guidance

12 August 2024

Peripheral venous catheter care bundle

This checklist can support you when monitoring patients with an intravenous catheter.

Quality improvementPatient careMedicineSurgery and anaesthesia
Case example

12 June 2024

Antibiotic use in surgical calf castrates clinical audit

The Farm Vets at Hampden Veterinary Hospital

Explore an award winning project that used clinical audit to reduce the use of antibiotics in calf castrates.

Quality improvementFarm animalsAudits and benchmarksAntimicrobial stewardship (AMS)Surgery and anaesthesia
Course

1 June 2024

QI Boxset 7: Patient safety – introduction to human factors and systems thinking

Series 7 of the QI Boxset introduces the concept of adopting a human factors and systems thinking approach in clinical practice.

Quality improvementCommunication and teamwork
Tool / guidance

28 April 2024

Measuring and improving our quality of care

This flow chart illustrates the process of quality improvement.

Quality improvementCommunication and teamwork

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