The HFHQI Awards Support Sessions are delivered in partnership with the HSE Quality and Patient Safety Improvement Team. The aim of these sessions is to help applicants navigate the application process, gain information on Quality Improvement, and share and inspire ideas.
If you missed any of our 2024 HFHQI Support Sessions, you can access the full suite below.
Overview and Update
Lucy Andrews, Hospice Friendly Hospitals Development Officer, provides an overview of the Hospice Friendly Hospital Quality Improvement Awards, shares examples of previous QI Awardees and speaks to the changes in place for 2024.
HSE Quality and Patient Safety Improvement Presentation
Roisin Egenton, Programme Manager (Strategy), Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) Improvement, and Eileen Tormey, QPS Improvement, discuss quality improvement and how we can engage with staff and leaders in QI. They also share QI tools and resources.
‘Easy Read End-of-Life Care Information Booklet’ Project
Naas General Hospital’s End-of-Life Care Coordinator, Lisa White, presents learnings from their 2023 Quality Improvement Award project, ‘Easy Read End-of-Life Care Information Booklet’, designed for adults with intellectual or development disabilities.
Galway University Study Day Project
Anne McKeown, End-of-Life Care Coordinator, and Vivian Roch-Fahy, Bereavement Liaison Officer, at Galway University Hospital present their HFHQI Project ‘Supporting our End-of-Life Champions in GUH Study Day.’
HSE Quality and Patient Safety Improvement Presentation: Measuring Improvements in End-of-Life Care QI Work
Roisin Egenton, Programme Manager (Strategy), Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) Improvement, present methods to measuring and monitoring quality improvement.
2023 HFHQI Awards Support Sessions
Watch our 2023 Support Sessions:
- Quality Improvement Presentation: Delivered by Roisin Egenton, Programme Manager (Strategy), Quality and Patient Safety (QPS) Improvement and Eileen Tormey, QPS Improvement
- ‘Thinking of you Memory Box’ Project: 2022 QI Awardee Gillian Shanahan, Organ Donation Nurse Manager, University Hospital Galway, Saolta University Health Care Group, presenting the ‘Thinking of you Memory Box’ project
- ‘Grief in the ICU – Bereavement Support for Children’ Project: 2022 QI Awardee Paddy Cahill, Clinical Nurse Manager 2, St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, presenting the ‘Grief in the ICU – Bereavement Support for Children’ Project
- Care after Death Checklist: 2022 QI Awardee Rebecca Lloyd, End of Life Care Coordinator, University Hospital Limerick, UL Hospitals Group, presenting the ‘Care After Death Checklist’ Project
