Wacky ideas at #FellowsConnect

This week FellowsConnect brought together 150 fellows, ex-fellows, fellowships organisers and fellowship funders to talk all things Fellow-related. 

Last session of the day was ‘Open Space-lite’ where anyone could volunteer to run a discussion group.

I offered people the opportunity to join the Blue Sky, Blank Page & Wacky Ideas table.

Five people joined and this is the result of our endeavours – deliberately unstructured because so was the discussion.

QI/Evidence into Practice Cult (yes we know that’s an emotive word but it is the wacky ideas table) – which creates enthusiasm, has a charismatic leader (who later becomes a benign dictator who does QI at gun-point e.g. anyone who does a single PDSA cycle without linking it to a series gets shot!), has wristbands, has people tithe 10% of their salary, has a ‘uniform’ (which is exactly what each individual want to wear), achieves culture change in practice by shifting the whole population not just a few individuals (fellows) – like putting QI in the water, frees up time for everyone to do QI, works bottom-up including the people at the bottom (together with the CEO), has many fellows from the same team at the same time, or 1 fellow continuously from a team until everyone has been a fellow, creates critical mass at different levels with different perspectives, creates a nation of QI fellows with mandatory in all organisations (not just healthcare), QI lessons at school, QI leisure courses, QI badges at Brownies and Cubscouts, provides 1^st year undergrad MDT QI year (nurses, managers, doctors, AHPs) or 1^st year postgrad MDT QI finishing school, stops people going native by firing everyone experienced or jaded every 5 years unless they pass a ‘cheerful about QI’ appraisal, leads the hospital song and dance every morning run by skype for single-handed GPs and homeworkers, uses the experience of fellows and the knowledge that’s in the system, maps it, passes on learning from fellowships, including through ‘Fellowstock’ an annual music festival initially funded by the Wellcome Trust where fellows present their projects in song, interpretive dance or juggling, provides a responsive QI/Evidence into Practice service that answers people’s questions about anything to do with anything to do with QI or Evidence into Practice and provides a responsive QI/Evidence into practice coaching & mentoring service for anyone who wants or needs it, gets rid of boundaries between organisations by sharing health & social care budgets and making integrated care organisations successful, breaks down barriers between individuals by getting everyone naked and banning gender, it cancels all innovation so we can celebrate catch-up, allows organisations to value things that are ‘not invented here’, bans regulation and targets and uses all the funds released for QI.  Oh, and goes for the ‘No’.

Phew! Wacky enough?  I’ll let you decide…

For more info on the day search twitter for #fellowsconnect.

The event was chaired by Bill Lucas, Professor of Lifelong Learning at University of Winchester, and sponsored by The Health Foundation, NHS Improving Quality, NHS Education Scotland, Universities UK and the National Insitute for Health Research. It was held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Regents Park, London.