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Rossdales Equine Hospital and Diagnostic Centre,Newmarket,CB8 7NN
Equine vets, nurses and practice managers are invited to attend our BEVA approved event with RCVS Knowledge.
This full day event, hosted by RCVS Knowledge, will include real-life scenarios and case studies that will help you learn how to apply quality improvement (QI) methods and showcase the latest developments and free tools available to equine practices to make practical changes to improve outcomes for your patients.HBLB are sponsoring both events which has allowed delegate fees to be subsidised.
Event Programme
09.45-09.55am
Welcome and Introduction
09.55-10.35am
Lewis Smith (Rossdales Veterinary Surgeon)
How we're doing clinical governance in our practice.
Linking how procedural errors, common and easily made mistakes can be harnessed to improve veterinary performance.
10.40-10.55am
Freya Rooke (University of Nottingham)
Barriers and solutions when utilising QI methods
This session will discuss some of the barriers and solutions encountered when utilising QI methods. Using related examples from the field of human healthcare the talk will examine how some of the barriers noted in the human literature may be similar or differently encountered in the field of veterinary care and how to address them to effectively use QI.
11.00-11.40pm
Pam Mosedale (RCVS Knowledge Quality Improvement Advisory Board)
Checklists in veterinary practice.
Checklists are an important part of safety culture in practice, and by reducing errors they protect patients, clients and practice team members.
11.45-11.55pm
Tim Mair (Bell Equine Veterinary Clinic)
Creating and using guidelines in practice - colics, castrations, antimicrobials and more.
Analysing some of the problems and benefits of introducing clinical guidelines into equine practice. Using some real-life examples, we will look at why guidelines may be beneficial, how to go about finding and devising our own guidelines, how to implement them and how to monitor their effect.
Lunch
02.05-2.45pm
Alice Bird (Animal Health Trust)
An anaesthetic complication and what we did about it: turning error into improvements.
Demonstrating the use of the RCVS Knowledge Significant event audit activity sheet on a real equine clinical incident scenario. The scenario will aim to show how logical analysis and open discussion can provide a clearer picture, which is often not the same as the initial assumptions of individual blame.
2.50-3.30pm
Pam Mosedale (QIAB) and Charlotte Hartley (VetPartners)
Practical approaches to clinical audit in equine practice.
A practical approach to getting started on clinical audit in equine practice with real life examples. We hope this session will stimulate delegates to start out or develop process audits in their practice which can make a real difference very quickly.
3.35-3.45pm
Professor Debra Archer (University of Liverpool)
Benchmarking in colic surgery: What's to come.
This session will detail the launch of an app and website based audit tool that has been developed to obtain data about rates of morbidities and mortality in horses undergoing surgery for colic. This will enable participating clinics to obtain data for their own clinics and will enable benchmarks to be developed so that individual clinics can compare their patient outcomes against international and national benchmarks.
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