Quality Improvement & Innovation
The Acute Medical Unit in Ninewells Hospital won the Quality Award in 2014 for 'Improving Patients Outcomes' with the redesign of the acute service on AMU. This redesign was created and led entirely by the medical, nursing & allied healthcare staff on the unit and has been applauded for quality and innovation in NHS Scotland. It involved not only physically reshaping the whole unit (combining 2 wards to create a whole new multiple assessment area space) but also a mental reshaping of how staff worked and how we could place the patient at the very centre of our care rather than around the working patterns of staff and the physical shape of the unit. The poster explaining this highly successful transformation is in our AMU for staff & visitors to read.
In the 36 months we have been highly commended on our work in
- Improving HIV testing
- Managing delerium in the acute environment
- Providing innovative online staff induction
- Improving medicine care and pharmacy presence in the AMU
Examples of some of our work are on display in the corridor as you walk into the unit and are changed as new projects are completed to improve our service. There are always going to be challenges in the delivery of good quality healthcare in the NHS and we have some that are still to be tackled and in the AMU we strive to be the best at being better.
In the 36 months we have been highly commended on our work in
- Improving HIV testing
- Managing delerium in the acute environment
- Providing innovative online staff induction
- Improving medicine care and pharmacy presence in the AMU
Examples of some of our work are on display in the corridor as you walk into the unit and are changed as new projects are completed to improve our service. There are always going to be challenges in the delivery of good quality healthcare in the NHS and we have some that are still to be tackled and in the AMU we strive to be the best at being better.
