Leveraging data to make QI more equitable

How we might leverage data to make QI more equitable?

We’ll be joined by three experts who will share their knowledge and practice to inform and guide our conversation. 

Ryan Swiers, Consultant in Public Health, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, will share approaches for integrating the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) into health records. 

Dr John Ford, Academic Public Health Doctor and Lead Researcher in equity-focused QI at Queen Mary University London, will talk about the need for disaggregated data in Quality Improvement.

Michelle Kane, Director of Vaccination and Screening Delivery and Transformation at NHS England, will share the power of equalities data to improve the Covid-19 vaccine programme.

The focus on health equity is not new, see for example the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 2016 white paper ​‘Achieving Health Equity:  A Guide for Health Care Organizations’ – but recent years have seen a newfound desire to remedy these enduring challenges at the heart of health and care.

This event is co-organised by the Digital and PPI and Diversity online Groups. Rachel Pool, convener of Digital group, will be our host. 

Q’s Digital online group isabout opening up new challenges and opportunities for quality improvement; bringing analytics and methods into improvement settings and improvement methodology into digital projects.

Q’s PPI and Diversity online group explores what PPI and diversity and equality means in the context of quality and safety improvement. And how a broader group of patients and the public can best be involved in these activities.