Wednesday 27 March 
13:30-17:00

In this interactive workshop you’ll have the opportunity to learn from leading editors how to carry out an effective improvement project and write it up for publication in a peer reviewed journal.

Using a step by step approach, the workshop will focus on how to plan and carry out better improvement work by effectively utilising the published evidence together with the lived experience of service users and carers to inform what to improve and how to better implement improvement.

We’ll explore how to capture the learning as you go and write-up a compelling improvement report, including the perspective of the lived experience, sharing the lessons learned to enable effective adoption and adaptation by other improvers. Leading Journal editors with experience in programme design, service user involvement and publication will guide you through an instructive and experiential session to help you to plan, co-produce and write up interventions to improve care for patients.

After this session, participants will be able to:
1. Deepen their knowledge of where to find, and how to use, the evidence base for improvement
2. Gain confidence in engaging, listening to and working with service users and carers
3. Understand how to structure a QI report to capture the lived experience of doing improvement, along with the methods and results.

Helen Crisp, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Open Quality; England
Amy Price, Patient Editor for Research and Evaluation, The BMJ; USA