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

1. Reducing Average Length of Stay for Knee Arthroplasty Patients
2. Sustainability Phase: Inhaled Corticosteroids for All Asthma During COVID-19 Pandemic
3. Occupational Therapy LIFE Programme for Stroke Patients (Sustainability Phase)
4. Sustainability Phase: Improving Percentage of Transfer of Care from Geriatric Memory Clinic to Primary Care Dementia Clinic
5. Sustainability Phase: Improving Post-Operative Mobilization Rates in Patients undergoing Elective Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Surgery
6. Sustainability Phase: Increase Rate of Decant for Eligible Patients requiring Admission from TTSH Emergency Department to Alexandra Hospital
7. Sustainability Phase: PCV13 Vaccination for Elderly Patients aged ≥65 years on Follow Up with TTSH Integrative Family Physician Clinic
8. Safety Without Restraints in SICU (Sustainability Phase)
9. Self Care for Nurses at Work (Sustainability Phase)
10. Sustainability Phase: Fall Prevention in Rehab Wards at Ang Mo Kio
11. NCID ICU Retrieval Process for Intubated Patients (Sustainability Phase)
12. Improving Daily Out of Bed Activities for Spinal Cord Injured Patients at Tan Tock Seng Rehabilitation Center (Sustainability Phase)
13. Reduce Incidence of Delirium in Elderly Hip Fracture Patients (Sustainability Phase)
14. To Improve Medication Safety in Pharmacy's Unit Dose Packaging (UDP)
15. To Increase the Uptake of Influenza Vaccination in Hougang Polyclinic
16. Early Review of General Medicine Patients in Emergency Department of KTPH
17. Reducing waste by reorganizing instrument sets for dental treatment in NHGP
18. Team-based management of patients with poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes in Toa Payoh Polyclinic

Service Redesign and Delivery

1. Laboratory Self-Service Electronic Collection Module (ECM)
2. Improve Percentage of Patients Achieving Desired Functional Outcomes when Receiving Home Exercise Programme at the Centre of Geriatric Medicine
3. Frequency of Swallowing Intervention for Patients with Nasogastric Tube
4. To reduce Assault Rate by 50% in a Long Stay Psychiatric Ward (Ward 73AB) in IMH within 6 months’ time
5. Improving Inpatient Influenza Vaccination Rate

Developing a Flexible and Sustainable Workforce

1. Early Post-Operative Nutrition Optimisation for Elective Colorectal Surgical Patients
2. Reduction in Superficial Incisional Surgical Site Infections for Open Emergency Abdominal Surgery Patients
3. Redesigning the workflow to process and communicate home delivery requests
4. Increasing self-payment kiosk (SPK) medication delivery sign-ups at AMK Polyclinic
5. Management and care of Suicidal Risk patients in KTPH
6. Reduce preanalytical error involving multi level transportation of samples to the lab
7. Reduce wrong booking of lab appointment for Queenstown NHGD Lab
8. Making appropriate and timely referrals to occupational therapy and physiotherapy services.
9. Improve Appropriate Referral of Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in Diagnostic Radiology TTSH
10. Reduction in Missed X-ray Orders for Repeat Visit Patients in Clinic B1A
11. Increasing the Rate of Osteoporosis Workup Ordered for Patients with Distal Radius Fractures

Building Strong Partnerships in Improvement Work

1. Right-Siting of Care to Community Partners
2. Collaborative Partnership in Improving Operational Efficiency of Medication Delivery Services for Dermatology Outpatients
3. Collaboration between Department of General Medicine and Emergency Department: Reduction of Plasma Sodium Overcorrection for Severe Hyponatremia Patients
4. Optimization of Nutrition for Surgical Head and Neck Cancer Patients
5. DaVinci Team
6. To Reduce the Number of Prescription Interventions at Pioneer Polyclinic Pharmacy

Innovation in Healthcare

1. Incontinence Associated Dermatitis Bundle Development and Implementation
2. Diabetic Foot in Primary and Tertiary (DEFINITE) Care
3. Project InCRedible: Increase Enrolment in Cardiac Rehabilitation Package in Eligible Post-Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
4. “Time to Take the Pressure off”: Reducing Facial Pressure Injuries from Non-Invasive Ventilation
5. Transforming Patients Check-in and Check-Out Experiences

Junior Medical Doctors

1. Improving First Visit Attendance for Patients Referred from Medical Oncology Clinic to Palliative Medicine Clinic
2. Cardiovascular and Metabolic Screening in Gout Patients
3. Increasing The Uptake of Influenza Vaccination In the Elderly
4. Increasing the referral rate to a Weight Management Clinic in Ang Mo Kio Polyclinic
5. Increasing Referral Rate to Smoking Cessation Clinic among Asthma and COPD patients