Posters

Submit a poster demonstrating the most useful lessons for shared learning and be considered for an IMPRESS award, or simply bring with you to display!

Share with us your experience of things that have gone well and those that haven’t. There will be an award in each category for the most useful learning, and one best runner up, judged in advance by an expert IMPRESS panel.

Categories are:

1. Improving quality defined as improved patient experience, improved personalisation, improved outcomes, improved fairness, and/or better safety
2. Increasing high value services and reducing low value services (this might include improved self-management, workforce substitution, effective use of technology, and/or stopping certain activities [this category requires financial data])
3. Integration across boundaries

All posters will be available on the IMPRESS website after the meeting (if author consent is provided). Authors will have one week to review before going live.

To qualify for the Award please produce a poster with this structure:
Structure for posters

• TITLE
• BACKGROUND: who we are and why we have undertaken the project
• METHOD: what we did / how we did it
• RESULTS: what worked well / what didn’t and why
• CONCLUSIONS: what others can learn

Note: initiatives that don’t work can offer valuable lessons, so positive and negative stories are welcomed. We also accept qualitative evidence.

Deadline for submission of electronic copy of poster for consideration by the judges for the IMPRESS awards – Tuesday 3rd May 2011. Posters not entered for the awards may still be brought for display.

Stories
In addition, there may be teams that wish to share stories or case events. These are welcomed, and can be displayed as A3 stories. The important point is to answer the “so what?” question: what does this tell us about how we could do things differently in the future.

Please submit material to: gailryan@redhotirons.com by 3rd May 2011