The QI Guy in Conversation with...

Welcome to the QI Guy in conversation with...podcast. In this episode, I have a conversation with Jennifer Rodgers.

Jennifer Rodgers is Deputy Nurse Director for corporate and community services at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Combining experience with academic learning, she completed her MSc in 2009 winning the prestigious Barber Prize. In 2012 Jennifer became the first paediatric nurse to complete the Scottish Patient Safety Fellowship, and in 2013 won the Scottish Nurse of the Year Award at the Scottish Health Awards. In 2019 Jennifer was named Scottish Woman of the Year for services to medicine. From 2015 Jennifer held the position of Chief Nurse in Glasgow Children’s Hospital before broadening her remit across the board in 2020.

Always focussed on quality Jennifer is an advocate of person-centred and family integrated care and her original project asking children to draw or write ‘what matters to me’ posters has been a key driving force and an integral part of the Scottish Person-Centred Care Collaborative and the international ‘what matters to you’ movement.

For all the information on What Matter to You visits: whatmattertoyou.scot or wmty.world

Welcome to the QI Guy in conversation with...podcast. On this episode I have a conversation with Laura Allison, Associate Director of Quality Improvement at NHS Education Scotland. You can follow Laura on Twitter @lallison2002. You can learn more about the Q community and becoming a member at https://q.health.org.uk/. Find out more about Liberating Structure by downloading the app https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/liberating-structures/id1206361128. Be sure to follow us on Twitter @TheQI_Guy

Welcome to the QI Guy in conversation with...podcast. On this episode I have a conversation with Dr Lesley Anne Smith. Lesley Anne is a Health Foundation/Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Quality Improvement Fellow 2010-11, is a doctor and chartered accountant. She has held several senior roles in the NHS including Head of Quality, NHS Highland and Quality Improvement Programme Director, NHS Education for Scotland.

In her most recent role as the NHS Lanarkshire Director of Quality Lesley Anne was responsible for leading the development and implementation of the Lanarkshire Quality Approach ensuring a connected infrastructure is in place that supports NHS Lanarkshire to deliver on its ambition of putting quality at the heart of the organisation. This included providing direct advice and support to the NHS Board and the Corporate Management Team on quality management, including specifically quality assurance, quality improvement and quality evidence, including knowledge services. She led on the development of the NHS Lanarkshire Quality Strategy 2018-23 and supporting Quality Plans to ensure delivery of the organisation’s quality priorities.

During her fellowship year at IHI Lesley Anne explored ways in which organisations can improve quality while at the same time saving money, with a focus on leadership for whole system improvement.

She is currently a Trustee of the Scottish Centre for Children with Motor Impairment at Craighalbert. Learn more about the Essentials of Safe Care from the Scottish Patient Safety Programme by visiting: https://ihub.scot/improvement-programmes/scottish-patient-safety-programme-spsp/essentials-of-safe-care/ Creative approaches to problems solving tool kit: https://q.health.org.uk/resource/creative-approaches-to-problem-solving/ Check out the Twitter @TheQI_Guy