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Development and Quality Improvement from the ground up Pathology Department NHS Forth Valley Bottom Up Management Progressing from small or subordinate units to larger or more important units, as in an organisation or process.

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Development and Quality Improvement from the ground up

Pathology Department NHS Forth Valley

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Bottom Up Management

“Progressing from small or subordinate units to larger or more important units, as in an organisation or process.”

  • Improved flexibility
  • emphasizes patient focus
  • Promotes Teamwork
  • Project is team driven
  • High level of team motivation
  • Employees feel valued
  • Managers provide support for staff to perform at their best
  • Combined with top down management - allows organisation to

thrive.

  • Staff suggestion process used locally to trial ideas
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FVRH Pathology Background

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Working Practices

  • Overnight processing
  • non specialist reporting
  • no rapid cycle
  • Large batch working
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Working Practice – impact on staff and patients

  • Musculoskeletal issues

– Over 2018 the sickness absence rate for the department was 9.5% which was higher than 2017 (4.4%) – 17.3% of sickness was attributed to musculoskeletal problems

  • Staff morale
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Drivers for change

  • TATs

– In-house targets which were not being met

  • Demoralised staff

– Large batch working, musculoskeletal issues, staff sickness levels.

  • New way of working needed - LEAN
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What is LEAN?

  • Devised by car manufacturer Toyota
  • Improves quality, efficiency and lowers

costs while using no more resources.

  • Identifies wasteful processes
  • Requires buy-in by management and

staff – change not always easy to implement.

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Workflow Improvements

  • 2 batches of processing overnight
  • 2 batches of embedding - various times

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Workflow Improvements

  • Microtomy – smaller batch working

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  • Continuous staining
  • Continuous correlating
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Workflow Improvements

  • Same day processing with extended

working pattern

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Data Analysis-Load Book

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Data Analysis-Load Book

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Data analysis-workflow

200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 01-Apr 08-Apr 15-Apr 22-Apr 29-Apr 06-May 13-May 20-May 27-May 03-Jun 10-Jun 17-Jun 24-Jun 01-Jul 08-Jul 15-Jul 22-Jul 29-Jul 05-Aug 12-Aug 19-Aug 26-Aug 02-Sep 09-Sep 16-Sep 23-Sep 30-Sep

Block Activity

Blocks cut Block Backlog

Same day processing

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Data Analysis-Staffing

6.9% 1.1% 2.5% 4.6% 3.4% 8.3% 0.0% 1.0% 2.0% 3.0% 4.0% 5.0% 6.0% 7.0% 8.0% 9.0% Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep

Pathology Sickness Absence Rate April-September 2019

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Evaluation

Advantages

  • Improved workflow
  • Reduced turnaround

time for patients

  • Improved productivity
  • Reduced risk of

musculoskeletal injury

  • Increased staff rotation
  • Structured work pattern
  • Increased morale

Disadvantages

  • Requires extended

working pattern

  • Requires minimum staff

number present

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Continuous Quality Improvement

  • Implement across other services areas;

– ICC – Cytology – Andrology – Mortuary

  • Develop performance management:

– Productivity against deployable hours – Target setting

  • Improved staff development :

– Use improved efficiency for further development of staff

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Questions?