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A handy infographic that explains the process of implementing checklists into your practice. Ideal to print and display in practice! (PDF Doc)

In this podcast transcript, Matt McMillan, who was Principal Clinical Anaesthetist and Critical Care Co-ordinator at Queen’s Veterinary School Hospital at the time of recording, delivers his talk on checklists, revealing the underlying reason why they are necessary and delving into their war-time history.

In this podcast transcript, Pam Mosedale, BVetMed MRCVS, QI Clinical Lead and Chair of the RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Advisory Board, chats to Professor Debra Archer, DVMS PhD CertES (soft tissue) Dip. ECVS FHEA, about the use of checklists in equine practice to help us deliver safe and efficient quality care.

In this podcast transcript, Pam Mosedale, BVetMed MRCVS, QI Clinical Lead and Chair of the RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Advisory Board, chats to Luiz Santos, Senior Clinician in Veterinary Anaesthesia at the University of Glasgow, about how checklists are more than just a piece of paper, helping us to communicate and work together as a team to ensure the safety of our patients.

In this podcast transcript, Pam Mosedale, QI Clinical Lead BVetMed MRCVS, Chair of the RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Advisory Board chats to Falon Hepburn, RVN, about the nurse's role in using checklists and her experience of creating and implementing them in practice.

In this webinar transcript, Laura Playforth BVM&S MSc Adv HCP (Open) MRCVS, Vice-Chair of QIAB talks to Pam Mosedale, QI Clinical Lead BVetMed MRCVS, Chair of QIAB, about what safety checklists are, why we need them in practice and the principles and attributes that make them effective in helping us to deliver safe, quality care.

Transcript for Conquering the caseload peak - how small changes can lead to great achievements.

This session was recorded during the SPVS VMG Congress on the 13th May 2022.

In addition to traversing the terrain of chronic staffing resource shortages and withstanding the onslaught of the pandemic, the veterinary professions in the UK were then hit with a tidal wave of new pets. Caseload increases of 50% faced diminished and fatigued teams. Fortunately veterinary teams are problem-solvers and solution-finders. We innovate, we improve, we learn and we share. What we have learnt are new ways of working, born out of necessity, to address the caseload: staffing imbalance. In this session we discuss how system and process changes can significantly reduce the time it takes to perform our roles, how we can implement and measure these changes, making sure we can get to the other side of the caseload peak successfully.

Speaker:
Dr Laura Playforth BVM&S MSc Adv HCP (Open) MRCVS, Vice-Chair of QIAB

In this award-winning case example, Eloise Collins, Head Veterinary Nurse at Beech House Veterinary Centre, uses a range of Quality Improvement tools, team meetings, and journal clubs to help improve patient care and to improve practice culture. Eloise helped to create psychological safety amongst the team through her open and honest approach. The application shows how an improvement culture involving the entire team creates positive change.

Samantha Butler-Davies Declaration of Interest