Scottish Improvement Foundation Skills Programme

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Lanarkshire’s Primary Care Improvement Team deliver the Scottish Improvement Foundation Skills Programme (SIFS) to primary care colleagues in order to develop and strengthen the skills, knowledge and confidence to contribute to service improvement and share learning on testing, measuring and reporting methods that promote change. Cluster Quality Leads, Practice Quality Leads and GP Practice Teams are particularly encouraged to sign up for our next course by emailing the Primary Care Improvement Team.

SIFS is a 7-week virtual learning programme during which the Primary Care Improvement Team will deliver sessions on MS Teams. Participants will also spend 90 minutes per week applying the skills delivered in the session to their improvement project. Participants should begin the course with a project idea in mind, and will learn to understand quality improvement and why it is important; utilise commonly used improvement concepts and tools for understanding systems, developing aims, changes & measures and reporting improvement; practically apply key quality improvement concepts to their local project and develop the confidence to apply concepts and tools to contribute to improvement team initiatives.

The programme focusses on the practical application of appropriate tools and methods, so participants need to actively contribute to an improvement project throughout the SIFS course. The Primary Care Improvement Team offer ongoing online support via MS Teams as the programme and projects continue.