Events

The Improvement Foundation (IF) is highly experienced in facilitating and delivering both large scale, and small events. We have successfully organised, facilitated and delivered conferences, master classes, training sessions and workshops across Australia, with many of our senior staff experienced in guest speaking and presenting. IF also has access to a range of highly experienced consultants and guest speakers, specialising in a variety of healthcare fields. For more information on our staff and speaking opportunities please visit the Our Team page.

Workshops

Through the federally funded Australian Primary Care Collaboratives (APCC Program) IF has delivered more than 18 large scale, state-based and national workshops, each bringing together up to 300 primary healthcare staff from across Australia. IF also delivers virtual workshops and supports the facilitation of locally based workshops across Australia.

Upcoming Workshops

APCC Diabetes Prevention and Management Virtual Workshop, week commencing November 28 2011
GP Plus Practice Nurse Initiative, workshop 2, 6 March 2012 (South Australia)

Previous Workshops

Some events IF has either consulted on or delivered recently include:

GP Plus Practice Nurse Initiative Workshops
October 2010 - February 2011 (two workshops) Involving five Divisions of General Practice and staff from 24 general practices in South Australia
Quality Improvement Skills Program
July - September 2010 (three workshops) Involving staff from five Divisions of General Practice across Victoria
Continuous Quality Improvement one day workshops

‘Introduction to Continuous Quality Improvement’ 29 July 2010 ‘Exploring Quality Improvement Tools’ 30 July 2010
Quality Improvement Masterclass
20 May 2010 Quality in Practice/Australian General Practice Accreditation Limited National Conference 2010 (44 attendees)

Image 1: IF National Program Director, Mini Dhillon presents at a local Queensland workshop
Image 2: Participants at one of the national workshops delivered by IF
Image 3: IF Staff at one of the smaller training sessions

Last Updated 27 October 2011

What is the Model for Improvement?

The Model for Improvement provides a framework for developing, testing and implementing changes. It helps to break down a change effort into small, manageable chunks which are then tested to ensure that things are improving and that no effort is wasted. It is always worth remembering that while every improvement is certainly a change, every change is not an improvement.

The Model for Improvement consists of two equal parts; the first part, the “thinking part”, consists of three fundamental questions to guide improvement work:

What are we trying to accomplish?
How will we know that a change is an improvement?
What changes can we make that will result in an improvement?

For more information about the Model for Improvement visit: http://apcc.org.au/about_the_APCC/the_model_for_improvement/

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What is the Collaborative Methodology?

Adapted from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Breakthrough Series Collaborative methodology, in the Australian context, the Collaborative methodology is used as a framework for the APCC Program. This methodology has been applied to a wide range of management challenges. Originally applied to healthcare systems in the USA, it has since been adopted in other countries, including the UK, Scotland, Canada and New Zealand.

The Collaborative methodology is proven to be highly effective in achieving large scale systems change and demonstrating measurable outcomes. It provides a generic quality improvement model that can be applied to achieve incremental, rapid and locally relevant improvements across a broad range of clinical and practice business issues.