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What does quality improvement have to do with the HRSC?

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government talked about their goal of delivering ‘shots in arms’ as the ultimate goal of the vaccine efforts. This wasn’t an exercise in expanding scientific knowledge or customising production, but the aim was clearly stated as being to deliver those advances to citizens in order to prevent them from becoming patients.

Author: Dr Carolyn Johnston, Consultant Anaesthetist and Deputy Medical Director, St George’s Hospital; Chair of QI working group

During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK government talked about their goal of delivering ‘shots in arms’ as the ultimate goal of the vaccine efforts. This wasn’t an exercise in expanding scientific knowledge or customising production, but the aim was clearly stated as being to deliver those advances to citizens in order to prevent them from becoming patients.

A large number of lives were saved by rapid development and national deployment of the new vaccines: the success of the vaccine programme is a reminder to us all how knowledge without application will not improve care.

The HSRC portfolio of projects creates a huge amount of knowledge that has the potential to improve care for our patients, but this knowledge remains potential unless we implement the recommendations of the various reports and use the rich datasets created to inform us of the most pressing areas for improvement in our clinical pathways.

CPD accreditation of courses and events

This section details all the events which have been accredited for CPD, provides guidance on how an application can be made, including a link to the online form, and describes the processes which are followed during a review.