Elliot ensures the world is our ISQua
All healthcare improvement roads will lead to Edinburgh in
2013
Frances Elliot. Chief Executive, Healthcare Improvement
Scotland
Ensuring that the quality of healthcare in Scotland is the envy
of the world is a Scottish Government ambition that Healthcare
Improvement Scotland fully supports – so much so that we’ve played
a pivotal role in bringing the foremost international conference on
improving the quality of healthcare to the city of Edinburgh for
2013.
The annual International Society for Quality in Health Care
(ISQua) conference brings together individuals and institutions
with a common desire to share their expertise in an international
forum. Frances Elliot – our organisation’s Chief Executive and
principal author of the bid document that lured the prestigious
event to Edinburgh – has just returned from the latest
conference in Geneva presenting our work on person
centred care in Scotland, as well as accepting the rare
honour of being invited to become to become an official ISQua
expert.
Stars of the bid
The successful bid was secured by Healthcare Improvement
Scotland in partnership with the NHS in Scotland and the Scottish
Government.
To clinch the bid it was important to highlight what’s happening
in Scotland to improve the quality of healthcare, as well as the
high quality opportunities for learning and sharing best practice
that Scotland can offer. The Scottish Patient Safety Programme, the
Scottish Patient Safety Research Network and the Academy of Medical
Royal Colleges in Scotland were just some of the aspects of quality
improvement in Scotland that the bid highlighted.
Another key component was the integrated approach to patient
safety happening in Scotland, and the bid highlighted that such
integration was second to none.
More signs that Scotland is being placed firmly on the map when
it comes to improving the quality of healthcare.
