Look at your baseline data
Open Prescribing has prescribing data under “Greener NHS” measures. You can view how your practice compares to others in your sub-ICB region or nationally.
Whole team approach
Quality improvement requires a whole team approach. The diagram below looks at the many different ways that patients with asthma may contact a practice and the team members involved with that process. Without everyone on board, it may be difficult to embed change. We recommend setting out the case for quality improvement work in this area at an exisiting practice meeting and or clinical meeting. You may find our education videos useful to play.
Use a SUSQI approach
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare describes sustainable clinical healthcare as that which reduces the carbon footprint of care whilst improving the quality of care. This can either be done by reducing the need for healthcare or making healthcare more efficient. They have developed a driver diagram to help plan quality improvement for sustainable clinical healthcare. We have added some ideas for sustainable quality improvement in asthma care. You can access a blank diagram here.
Remember to measure improvement
QI is all about making small changes, monitoring improvement, and then changing again. This is reflected in the Plan-Do-Study-Act model of QI. Read more about the PDSA approach to quality improvement here.