Michael Sykes

Dr Michael Sykes is a Senior Research Fellow in the department of Nursing, Midwifery & Health at Northumbria University. Michael is a nurse and implementation scientist, whose work seeks to enhance the effectiveness of quality improvement interventions, particularly audit and feedback (also known as clinical audit and clinical performance feedback).

‘Enhancing quality improvement’

Audit and feedback is a much-used (maybe even over-used) quality improvement intervention. As such, even modest enhancement offers the ability to improve care to large numbers of patients.

This talk will describe a series of studies seeking to enhance improvement from audit and feedback. This includes studies in dementia, orthopaedics, diabetes, in England and in Ireland. This will include:

• Work to describe the current response to national, regional and local audit;
• Co-design studies to enhance improvement in different contexts;
• A review of how others have designed 'feedback facilitation'; and
• A current NIHR-funded randomised controlled trial, process and economic evaluation (EQUIPD study; co-leads Michael Sykes & Robbie Foy).

This latter work involves delivery of a Quality Improvement Collaborative as a co-intervention to national audit. The Quality Improvement Collaborative aims to increase the improvement capabilities of feedback recipients, towards the goal of increasing the use of NICE-recommended insulin pumps.

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