Our Partners

Our partnerships and collaborations with health and care providers, commissioners, policy makers and researchers are an important part of how the Improvement Academy works. Our partnerships are centred on the Yorkshire and Humber region but extend nationally

Our current partners

Yorkshire and Humber AHSN – delivering patient safety collaborative, Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative, PReCePT
Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration – leading implementation of applied health and care research
Patient Safety Translational Research Centre – supporting implementation of patient safety interventions
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust – implementing ARCS across 98 wards
Leeds Community NHS Trust – supporting QI and Patient Experience
City Healthcare Partners CIC – improving forensic services through QI and Patient Experience
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – supporting Advanced QI and leadership
NHS England and NHS Improvement – supporting the implementation of the ‘learning from deaths’ guidance for ambulance services
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – evaluation of QI strategy
Health Education England – delivering QI training and Clinical Leadership opportunities
Yorkshire Ambulance Service – sharing analytics expertise, learning from deaths and QI
Sue Ryder – supporting implementation and scale up of safety huddles across services
Ramsay Health Care – supporting implementation and scale up of safety huddles across services
Royal College of Physicians – collaboratively providing training around SJR, learning from deaths and QI

Additional organisations supporting the ‘second victim’ support website include:

Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
BAPO
BMA
Royal College of Emergency Medicine
Intensive Care Society
Medical Defence Union
The Society and College of Radiographers

Our Academies

We are developing centres of excellence with those founding organisations that have been at the forefront of the development of one of our flagship programmes. These organisations have demonstrated sustained and significant impact by working with the Improvement Academy to develop the prototypical intervention, scaling up where appropriate, and embedding the new practices into mainstream working. These organisations have also demonstrated exceptional insight and leadership for improvement. Each of these factors is an essential part of the success of the work and therefore need to be recognised in the spread of our work nationally and internationally.

Principles of how we work with partners:

Mutual respect between partners recognising equal but different expertise.
Together with partners we develop and implement feasible and effective interventions based on research
We aim to leave skills behind in the organisations we work with
We aim to facilitate working across the region, and beyond, through networks and collaborations

Work With Us

Our partnerships are centred in the Yorkshire and Humber region but extend nationally. We are continuously developing our partnerships and relationships with health and care organisations.