Fundamentals of quality improvement (QI) is a one-day interactive workshop designed to build your knowledge of quality improvement, enabling you to lead impactful quality improvement initiatives within your clinical practice.
Enhance your confidence in leading quality improvement
You will gain practical skills in identifying areas for improvement, implementing change and measuring outcomes, all tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities within the NHS. Through interactive sessions and real-world case studies, you will develop the confidence and ability to use recognised tools to drive positive change and enhance patient care across the healthcare system.
Whether you're new to QI or looking to build confidence in leading improvement work, this CPD-accredited session offers a practical and structured approach to quality improvement for resident doctors across all specialties.
What will you learn?
During this one-day quality improvement workshop, you will explore how to apply QI methodology in your organisation, to undertaking quality improvement projects. You’ll consider the resident doctors role in leading and guiding QI work, reflect on how QI fits within the wider healthcare system, and discuss practical ways to embed improvement into everyday clinical practice. This session is designed to help you build confidence in quality improvement contribute effectively to a culture of continuous improvement.
This course will enable resident doctors to:
- describe the nature and purpose of quality improvement
- recognise the importance of an improvement culture and the resident’s role within it
- describe the essential knowledge and skills for quality improvement, and how to apply theory to practice
- identify key models and tools for improvement in the NHS
- consider how to undertake small tests of change and how to measure change as part of a QI project
- develop a narrative for a QI project to facilitate sustainability and spread.
This workshop is approved for 6 external CPD credits.
This course is open to resident doctors of all grades and specialties.
For consultants and SAS doctors of equivalent experience, we offer a QI for Consultants workshop.
This event is delivered on regular dates throughout the year. You can join us in-person at the RCP venue in London (RCP Regent’s Park), or Liverpool (RCP at the Spine), or join a virtual classroom session and attend online from the comfort of your own home or office. We are increasingly delivering our most popular workshops in regional centres as well. So keep an eye on all available dates and locations via the booking links at the bottom of the page.
We offer significant discounts to RCP Members on all our education activities. Non-members are always welcome, but we encourage you to join the RCP, whatever your grade or specialty, to benefit from great-value professional development opportunities. Find out more about membership.
Click on your chosen event below to see the full rate options. Resident members will pay slightly less than consultant members, and our virtual classroom events are priced lower than in-person sessions to ensure professional development is accessible and affordable to everyone. You must be logged in as an RCP Member to be eligible for the membership rates.
Flexible payment plans for higher value in-depth programmes can be arranged, and we can directly invoice employers with the appropriate authorisation. Please contact education.courses@rcp.ac.uk if you have any queries about fees or payments.
Our experienced medical educationalists work collaboratively to co-design programmes with senior clinicians who are active in hospitals throughout the UK. This ensures our courses remain relevant and respond to the changing needs of the clinical workforce, enabling high quality patient-centred care.
This unique partnership approach is key to the value and success of our programmes both in the UK and internationally. Each course combines on-the-ground experience and professional knowledge of medical practice in the NHS, alongside educational theory, teaching and practical skills, designed for every stage of your career.
This workshop is also available on a commissioned basis. Please contact us to discuss the RCP delivering this event exclusively for your doctors and healthcare teams, delivered in-person at your workplace, at the RCP sites in London or Liverpool, or in a virtual classroom.
To discuss your specific requirements and how the RCP can work with you, please give us a call on (0)20 3075 1555 or email consultancy@rcp.ac.uk
Further information about commissioned programmes from the RCP.
