The NHG Quality Day 2022 was held on 15 September 2022, Thursday at Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) as a hybrid event. This year's theme 'Keeping You in the Centre of Transformation', communicates the importance of people - patients and staff alike - as we embark on this journey of transformation. View the event poster here.
Click on the links below to find out more about the shortlisted QIA projects for 2022:
- Improving and Sustaining Quality & Safety
- Service Redesign and Delivery
- Developing a Flexible and Sustainable Workforce
- Building Strong Partnerships in Improvement Work
- Innovation in Healthcare
- Junior Medical Doctors
Improving and Sustaining Quality & Safety
- Reducing Average Length of Stay for Knee Arthroplasty Patients
- Sustainability Phase: Inhaled Corticosteroids for All Asthma During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Occupational Therapy LIFE Programme for Stroke Patients (Sustainability Phase)
- Sustainability Phase: Improving Percentage of Transfer of Care from Geriatric Memory Clinic to Primary Care Dementia Clinic
- Sustainability Phase: Improving Post-Operative Mobilization Rates in Patients undergoing Elective Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery
- Sustainability Phase: Increase Rate of Decant for Eligible Patients requiring Admission from TTSH Emergency Department to Alexandra Hospital
- Sustainability Phase: PCV13 Vaccination for Elderly Patients aged ≥65 years on Follow Up with TTSH Integrative Family Physician Clinic
- Safety Without Restraints in SICU (Sustainability Phase)
- Self Care for Nurses at Work (Sustainability Phase)
- Sustainability Phase: Fall Prevention in Rehab Wards at Ang Mo Kio
- NCID ICU Retrieval Process for Intubated Patients (Sustainability Phase)
- Improving Daily Out of Bed Activities for Spinal Cord Injured Patients at Tan Tock Seng Rehabilitation Center (Sustainability Phase)
- Reduce Incidence of Delirium in Elderly Hip Fracture Patients (Sustainability Phase)
- To Improve Medication Safety in Pharmacy's Unit Dose Packaging (UDP)
- To Increase the Uptake of Influenza Vaccination in Hougang Polyclinic
- Early Review of General Medicine Patients in Emergency Department of KTPH
- Reducing waste by reorganizing instrument sets for dental treatment in NHGP
- Team-based management of patients with poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes in Toa Payoh Polyclinic
Service Redesign and Delivery
- Laboratory Self-Service Electronic Collection Module (ECM)
- Improve Percentage of Patients Achieving Desired Functional Outcomes when Receiving Home Exercise Programme at the Centre of Geriatric Medicine
- Frequency of Swallowing Intervention for Patients with Nasogastric Tube
- To reduce Assault Rate by 50% in a Long Stay Psychiatric Ward (Ward 73AB) in IMH within 6 months’ time
- Improving Inpatient Influenza Vaccination Rate
Developing a Flexible and Sustainable Workforce
- Early Post-Operative Nutrition Optimisation for Elective Colorectal Surgical Patients
- Reduction in Superficial Incisional Surgical Site Infections for Open Emergency Abdominal Surgery Patients
- Redesigning the workflow to process and communicate home delivery requests
- Increasing self-payment kiosk (SPK) medication delivery sign-ups at AMK Polyclinic
- Management and care of Suicidal Risk patients in KTPH
- Reduce preanalytical error involving multi level transportation of samples to the lab
- Reduce wrong booking of lab appointment for Queenstown NHGD Lab
- Making appropriate and timely referrals to occupational therapy and physiotherapy services.
- Improve Appropriate Referral of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in Diagnostic Radiology TTSH
- Reduction in Missed X-ray Orders for Repeat Visit Patients in Clinic B1A
- Increasing the Rate of Osteoporosis Workup Ordered for Patients with Distal Radius Fractures
Building Strong Partnerships in Improvement Work
- Right-Siting of Care to Community Partners
- Collaborative Partnership in Improving Operational Efficiency of Medication Delivery Services for Dermatology Outpatients
- Collaboration between Department of General Medicine and Emergency Department: Reduction of Plasma Sodium Overcorrection for Severe Hyponatremia Patients
- Optimization of Nutrition for Surgical Head and Neck Cancer Patients
- DaVinci Team
- To Reduce the Number of Prescription Interventions at Pioneer Polyclinic Pharmacy
Innovation in Healthcare
- Incontinence Associated Dermatitis Bundle Development and Implementation
- Diabetic Foot in Primary and Tertiary (DEFINITE) Care
- Project InCRedible: Increase Enrolment in Cardiac Rehabilitation Package in Eligible Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
- “Time to Take the Pressure off”: Reducing Facial Pressure Injuries from Non-Invasive Ventilation
- Transforming Patients Check-in and Check-Out Experiences
Junior Medical Doctors
- Improving First Visit Attendance for Patients Referred from Medical Oncology Clinic to Palliative Medicine Clinic
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Screening in Gout Patients
- Increasing The Uptake of Influenza Vaccination In the Elderly
- Increasing the referral rate to a Weight Management Clinic in Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic
- Increasing Referral Rate to Smoking Cessation Clinic among Asthma and COPD patients
