Quality improvement (QI) is a systematic, continuous process of improving systems and processes to enhance quality and outcomes. It involves giving people closest to the issues the skills and resources to solve problems, often using data to understand variation and testing solutions on a small scale.

Health and Social Care Quality Improvement (HSCQI) Northern Ireland Website

Is a Quality Improvement (QI) Network whose purpose is to provide a supporting infrastructure for quality, improvement and innovation across the NI HSC system.
Working on the principles of: Learn together, Share together, Improve together, HSCQI is focused on building will, relationships and connections across system and professional boundaries.

HSCQI aims to empower clinicians, professionals, support staff and service users, to participate in QI across the NI HSC system.

Project ECHO Website

Is a worldwide movement providing an online learning and support methodology. It supports knowledge sharing between professionals from across health and social care, and facilitates the exchange of specialist knowledge and best practice.

Being Human: A Framework for Safety Culture within Health and Social Care

The Being Human Framework sets out what a good safety culture looks like within HSC in Northern Ireland. It defines safety culture as one that is safe and compassionate; just and open; and, continually learning and improving.