AQuA 2017/18 Leadership for Improvement Fellows Announced

The Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) is pleased to announce its 2017/18 cohort of our prestigious Leadership for Improvement Fellows programme.

(L-R) Caroline Greenhalgh, Elaine Whittaker, Caroline Poole, Deborah Lyon, Paula Simpson and Helen Lee

Now in its third year, the programme offers senior improvement leaders from across AQuA membership the exciting chance to develop their role around quality improvement, gain an international perspective on improvement with access to global experts, and receive support to put their learning into practice.

AQuA Chief Executive, David Fillingham, said:

“Our Leadership for Improvement Fellows programme is a fantastic opportunity for members to further their ambitions as leaders for improvement.

“The programme offers them the chance to learn from and meet some of the leading experts from around the world, and use this learning to develop and improve health and care across their own role and organisation.

“We’re delighted to welcome our new 2017/18 Fellows, and I’m pleased to see such a variety of roles and backgrounds. Last year’s Fellows found the programme hugely beneficial in supporting them to improve care, and I look forward to working with our new cohort as the year progresses.”

Fellows will tailor their studies to help them to meet a specific improvement aim or project within their organisation.

Our 2017/18 Fellows and their projects are:

• Caroline Greenhalgh, Head of Quality Improvement, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
  Increasing capability to deliver continuous quality improvement by expanding the Trust’s quality champions programme
  Follow her on Twitter @cargreenhalgh
• Caroline Poole, Clinical Improvement Lead, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
  Delivering person centred care and the enablers / barriers for system-wide adoption
  Follow her on Twitter @caroline123_NHS
• Deborah Lyon, Head of Service Transformation - Community and Social Care, The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
  Exploring support for system transformation and capability building for sustainable, system-wide improvement
  Follow her on Twitter @DeborahLyon14
• Elaine Whittaker, Senior Service Reform Manager, NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group
  Improving commissioning in social care and nursing homes
  Follow her on Twitter @WhittakerElaine
• Helen Lee, Head of Quality Improvement and Experience, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
  Understanding the key components for building improvement and co-design capabilities and empowering people to create a culture of continuous improvement
  Follow her on Twitter @helenlee321_lee
• Paula Simpson, Deputy Director of Nursing, Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust
  Creating an environment to facilitate system level change - supporting development of Wirral's Accountable Care System (ACS)
  Follow her on Twitter @nhs_paula

We’ll have more news and updates from our new Fellows throughout 2017/18 as they start the programme and explore their individual projects in more detail.

To find out more about the programme please visit our website, or contact Robert.Stoker@srft.nhs.uk.