Quality Day 2025

The NHG Quality Day 2024 was held on 27 September 2024, Friday at Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) as a hybrid event. This year's theme, "Co-Designing Healthcare with Patients and Communities - Shaping Tomorrow's Healthcare: With You, For You & Beyond", emphasises NHG's dedication to providing patient-centred care through collaboration and partnership.

 

View the video of the event highlights here.

 

Video on YouTube

Click on the links below to find out more about the winning projects for 2024:

  • 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. Improving comprehensive nutritional intervention in underweight elderly
  2. Reducing the Duration of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (Sustainability Phase)
  3. Increasing the Rate of Advance Care Plan Completion Among Palliative Medicine Inpatients (Sustainability Phase)
  4. Increasing the Rate of Diabetes Foot Screening in High-Risk Diabetes Mellitus Patients (Sustainability Phase)
  5. Improving Delirium Management in Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) (Sustainability Phase)

 

 

Service Redesign and Delivery

 

  1. Reducing radiation exposure of the patients undergoing trauma CT in ED
  2. To reduce the examination time for MRI of tibia and fibula studies to detect infection
  3. Timely Chronic Pain Management
  4. Timely Discharge amongst Same-Day-Discharge Patients in Invasive Cardiac Laboratory

 

 

Developing a Flexible and Sustainable Workforce

 

  1. Nurse-Led Anaesthetic Discharge in Post Anaesthesia Care Unit in Perioperative Settings
  2. Timely Salvage Initiative Reduce Time to Intervention for Patients Admitted for Malfunctioning Vascular Access
  3. Reducing the Rate of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections in the ICUs
  4. MRSA-Free Healthcare: A Quality Improvement Approach
  5. Improve the Provision of Therapy Assistants (TA) Led Occupational Therapy Follow-Up Sessions
  6. Improve Door to ECG (DTE) Time in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Emergency Department, Triage

 

 

Building Strong Partnerships in Improvement Work

 

  1. “Improving the Experience”: Reducing Time to Permanent Haemodialysis Access Creation for End-Stage Kidney
  2. Integration of Acute, Primary and Community Care for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus

 

 

Innovation in Healthcare

 

  1. Optimizing Patient Medical Records Digitisation Processes for Improved Turnaround 
  2. Care Redesign Nurse-led Mobilisation in Elective Colorectal Surgery 
  3. Redesigning model of care for potential prosthetic users post major lower limb amputation

 

 

Junior Medical Doctors

 

  1. Improving the usage of GINA Score in Yishun Polyclinic Teamlet C
  2. Reducing the Incidence of Inadequate Bone Marrow Trephine Samples 
  3. Enhancing Patient Safety in Specimen Collection in the Emergency Department