Elevating and Sustaining Quality and Safety through improvement /value initiatives

• Integration of Acute, Primary and Community Care for the Management of Diabetes Mellitus (Sustainability Phase)
• “Improving the Experience”: Reducing Time to Permanent Hemodialysis Access Creation for End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) Patients (Sustainability Phase)
• MRSA-Free Healthcare: A Quality Improvement Approach (Sustainability Phase)
• Timely Salvage Initiative (Sustainability Phase): Reduce Time to Intervention for Patients Admitted for Malfunctioning Vascular Access (AVF)
• Sustainability Phase: Reducing the Rate of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections in the ICUs
• Reducing the use of Restraints in a Child and Adolescent Ward
• Increase the Number of Medication Home Delivery Requested via Self-Service Kiosk by 50% in Geylang Polyclinic over a Sustained Period

Co-designing Service and Delivery with Customers and Caregivers

• Improving Exercise Compliance of Patients at Centre for Geriatric Medicine Tan Tock Seng Hospital
• Increasing the Uptake of Advanced Care Planning amongst Patients with End Stage Liver Disease presenting to the Gastroenterology General Ward (APPLE)
• Enhancing Screening of Osteoporosis Among the Postmenopausal Women at the General Medical Ward: A Quality Improvement Initiative at an Acute Hospital Setting in Singapore.

Developing a Flexible & Sustainable Workforce

• Reducing Wait Time for Hernia Operations
• Improving Time to Sputum Collection for Respiratory Medicine Patients Isolated for Suspected Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
• Safe from Sepsis
• Increasing Objective Frailty Screening Rates for Colorectal Clinic referrals to ROSE Perioperative Clinic
• Reducing Excessive Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Surgeries, A CPIP
• Discharging Spontaneous Pneumothorax Patients on Postoperative Day 2 (POD2)

Establishing Collaborative Partnership to Advance Value Driven Improvements

• Addressing Ultrasound Scan Postponements: A Quality Improvement Initiative
• Home Long-Term Oxygen Therapy (LTOT): Increasing the Adherence to Home LTOT following hospital discharge in Patients admitted under Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (RCCM)
• Reduce Unplanned Self-Extraction of Indwelling Urinary Catheter by Patients
• Enhanced Recovery After Spine Surgery (ERASS) - Reducing Inpatient Length of Stay After Lumbar Spinal Fusions

Driving Innovation to Elevate Healthcare Value

• Integration of AI powered co-pilot tools for Discharge Prescription Processing Efficiency
• Reducing the Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI) Rate in CCU and NES ICU in KTPH.
• Utilising Robotic Automation (RPA) for Staff Competencies Tracking
• Offering Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression

Engaging Junior Medical Doctor in Quality Improvement

• Right-Siting of Eligible Patients with Poor Prognosis Intracranial Hemorrhage from ED to General Ward
• Increase Successful Right Siting of Patients from Department of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology (RAI) to Shared Care Community Right Siting Programme (CRISP)
• To Improve BMD Referral Rates in NHG Yishun Polyclinic Teamlet F