NI health & social care staff asked to pledge for Change Day

Northern Ireland Health & Social Care staff are being asked to take part in a nationwide initiative aimed at encouraging HSC staff to pledge to do something to improve their team or the care they provide.

HSC Change Day is 11 March 2015 and it is hoped everyone connected to health and social care services in Northern Ireland – social workers, allied health professionals, nurses, doctors, students, pharmacists, managers, patients, dentists, and members of the public – will make a pledge.

The Change Day initiative stems from an idea the NHS in England hosted when they had their first NHS Change Day in 2012. This social media-based innovation was a huge success, with hundreds of NHS staff members, patients and volunteers submitting ‘pledges‘ to improve patient care within their health service.

If you‘re a member of staff in HSC and there’s something you have always wanted to do, a process you have wanted to change or a quality improvement project you have always wanted to conduct but haven’t quite got round to doing it yet then HSC Change Day presents you with the opportunity to do it.

You can ‘turn a whinge into a way‘ or ‘do something better together’ by pledging with other people in your multidisciplinary team.

If you don‘t work in Health and Social Care you can still make a pledge – for example, you could pledge to donate blood on Change Day itself, or you could pledge to visit an elderly neighbour once a month.

For more, visit: http://hscchangeday.com/