2005: Hannover

ESQH recently held its 13th International Workshop in Hannover, Germany, with the title “Accelerating Quality Improvement.”

Accelerating Quality Improvement

With this Workshop, the Society wished to explore methods of speeding up quality improvement that are evolving among certain organisations and personnel within the Quality field.

As such, presenters were invited from the following organisations, and asked to share their experience of taking tried and trusted Quality tools and making them work in new and more effective ways:

Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
AMNCH Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Philips Medical, Hamburg, Germany, and
SANA Kliniken, Munich, Germany.

As with all ESQH Workshops, generous time was allowed for questions, panel discussion and break-out groups. A full Workshop Report is currently being prepared and will be posted here shortly.

The Programme

“We Have the Tools: Now What Do We Do With Them?”
Workshop Chair: Marius Buiting, ESQH.

Accelerating Best Practice: The Breakthrough Programme
Caroline van Weert, Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO,

Accelerating Error Reduction: Six Sigma
Mary Hickey, AMNCH Hospital.

Accelerating Learning & Sharing: SANA Kliniken
Heidemarie Haeske-Seeburg, SANA Kliniken.

Accelerating Learning from Industry
TQM in a Philips Medical Systems Business Unit.
Thomas Kröger, Philips Medical.

“We Have the Tools: Now What Do We Do With Them?”
Panel Discussion

Accelerating Communicating: The ESQH Website
Antwan Reijnen, CBO & Noel Harrington, ESQH

Workgroups
1. Accelerating Knowledge Exchange
2. Accelerating Quality Improvement in the Workplace
3. Accelerating the Integration of Methodologies

Summary & Close.


You can view the presentations by clicking on Files below.

You can visit the websites of the organisations represented by clicking on the Links below.