Pride and Joy software tool
23-Aug-2017
"The software is easy to navigate and the support offered by the QFI development team in helping us adapt it to the needs of the services has been invaluable. It's use as both ..
Pride and Joy in mental health
01-Aug-2017
Improving patient flow through the whole system The Pride and Joy approach was implemented in June 2017 on a sixteen-bedded psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU) ba..
Pride and Joy in mental health
01-Jul-2017
"Since we started using the Pride and Joy approach five years ago, it has provided a structured approach to the day-to-day workings of the units. The focused and transparent ap..
The Pride and Joy in-community solution
01-Jan-2017
Following analysis and research of the community services setting, the Pride and Joy in-community-based services and production of the supporting software ..
Pride and Joy AnalyTOCs - the tool to conduct live analysis of patient flow across the whole system
02-Jan-2017
Identifying and validating the area and operational practice causing the most damage to the most patients across the whole system The Theory of Constraints..
The Pride and Joy software - the whole system operational and analysis tool
02-Jan-2017
Improving patient flow across the whole system - simultaneously within the parts, between the links and across the whole In the latter chapters of Pride and Joy..
Read Pride and Joy, written by QFI Partner, Alex Knight
01-Jan-2017
After researching and applying the Theory of Constraints (TOC) in health and social care, we are delighted to announce the publication of Pride and Joy. "This ..
The Pride and Joy detailed strategy and tactics implementation map
01-Dec-2016
The detailed strategy and tactics to provide exceptionally high-quality, safe and timely care, a rewarding working environment for all, and significantly improve a healthcare sy..
Achieving the four-hour access target for the first time in eighteen months
16-Nov-2015
I contacted the QFI team one Sunday afternoon immediately after reading Pride and Joy and within an hour Alex himself replied direct to my email. We quickly teamed up and their..
Community Hospitals NHS Trust, England
12-Jan-2015
New Zealand professor visits dementia friendly unit, Willow House "This approach gives you confidence that, whatever action you take, it is in the knowledge that ev..
NHS Acute Trust, England
01-Aug-2014
12-week pilot in General Medicine. Two wards achieved a 40% reduction in length of stay with a further two wards achieving a 30% and 25% reduction respectively. ..
Community Trust, England
01-Apr-2014
A downward trend of up to 50% reduction in length of stay within twelve weeks of implementation, allowing the trust to treat more patients within current capacity wh..
Community Health Services Trust, England
07-Mar-2014
"QFI Discharge Jonah has continued to demonstrate its significant potential for improving system efficiency as we have rolled it out across our community therapy and intermedia..
Clinical leadership programme
31-May-2013
How a ground-breaking programme of leadership training designed to improve quality, safety and financial management at a challenged NHS trust has helped to transform ..
Mental Health Trust, England
16-Mar-2014
How a mental health trust improved quality of care, reduced lengths of stay and created essential bed capacity using the QFI Discharge Jonah approach In a mental health..
Community Health Services and Clinical Commissioning Group
17-May-2013
How a unifying, patient-led theory is improving quality of care, reducing length of stay and driving inter-agency performance in Derbyshire Together, Derbyshire Commun..
General Hospital, England
27-Jun-2012
September to December 2011 • Reduction in length of stay of 20% Kettering General Hospital (KGH) provides acute hospital services to an urban/rural popul..
Mental Health Trust, England
22-May-2012
February to April 2012 • Reduction in length of stay of 48% in 6 weeks St Ann's Hospital is part of Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust (BEH-..
Acute hospital, The Netherlands
23-Mar-2012
18% reduction in length of stay across four surgical inpatient units and 14% reduction across two orthopaedic inpatient units, in just four months Amphia Ziekenhui..
Community Health Services Trust, England
06-Jan-2011
Overall length of stay across 12 community hospitals reduced from 35 to 22 days (37%), with resulting savings on excess bed days of £0.9m (2008/09), rising to over &..
Community Hospital, England
12-Jan-2011
Multi-disciplinary team wins Trust award for reducing length of stay from 45 to 20 days in 4 months ... and then went on to reduce this further over the following 18 months ..
QFI Outpatient solution
23-Sep-2011
A solution that enables staff to arrange appointments based on what is best for a patient's clinical need rather than on the next available appointment time. Any sing..
QFI-Elective-Jonah
13-Sep-2011
Many health and social care systems are under increasing pressure to carry out more surgical operations while keeping within their available resources and budgets. QF..
QFI Video - achieving a breakthrough in performance
28-Dec-2011
In this short video we hear from representatives of Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals and Derbyshire Community Hospitals about their experience of the QFI-Jonah approach and the ..