TODAY ends a special week of Bradford’s hospitals striving for perfection and testing out ways of improving patient care.
The Perfect Week, which began last Wednesday, has involved every member of Bradford Teaching Hospital Trust’s staff from clinicians to managers.
The Foundation Trust, which runs Bradford Royal Infirmary (pictured), said the campaign included health and social care professionals across the district working together to solve problems and deliver a real improvement in patient quality and safety.
The week was managed along similar lines to the Foundation Trust’s major incident plan, with a command centre and clinical management meetings throughout the day to keep a close watch on how the hospital was performing and how the patient experience was improving.
One of the areas focused on was trying different ways of getting patients at the city’s main and community hospitals transferred to inpatient beds quicker by making decisions earlier in the day.
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