Be the Change

‘Be the Change’ launched in February 2014 as a programme conceived by junior doctors (F1s), based on social movement theory and inspired by the national NHS Change Day. We aim to empower all staff to identify quality improvement opportunities in their own areas and to empower people to make improvements themselves. The vision for the … More Welcome to Be the Change

At Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust (ASPH) we are aiming to have a culture of ‘curiosity and creativity’ that is fair, open and supportive. One of the ways we will contribute to this culture for the organisation will be to have an approach to quality improvement (QI) that develops capacity and capability for … More Our Mission

Paul Batalden and Frank Davidoff of the Dartmouth Institute describe quality improvement as: “The combined efforts of everyone – health care professionals, patients and their families, researchers, commissioners, educators – to make changes that will lead to better patient outcomes, better system performance, and better professional development.”