Sustainable change requires an engaged team. It is important that, before you begin, your practice establishes a cancer screening and prevention QI ‘micro-team’.

Their role will be to:

• Undertake the implementation of quality improvement activities.

• Champion cancer screening quality improvement across the practice team.

Ideally, this team will include the following practice staff:

• Practice manager / Senior administrator: This person will be the toolkit lead and oversee the system improvement work.

• GP: The GP’s role is to provide clinical advice and to act as a clinical champion for cancer screening quality improvement. 

• Primary Care Nurse: nurse’s play an important role in data cleaning and supporting improvements in patient education and counselling.

• Reception staff: the reception team play an important role in reminder systems and cancer screening awareness raising.

If it is not possible for your practice to include all of these staff, at a minimum, you need to have a practice manager/senior administrator and a GP to lead and champion the work.

Once you have nominated your team, it may be helpful to watch the below videos to gain an overview of the toolkit and emphasise the fundamental role your team play in cancer care.

Before working through the modules, we recommend your team first identifies areas for improvement in your practice:

• The Primary Care Toolkit: readiness checklist (PDF) is an easy-to-use checklist that will help your practice team identify areas for improvement.
   
• Using the tool in conjunction with reading through (and reflecting on) common challenges and solutions is a simple way for your team to undertake a problem analysis.
   

We also offer module-specific checklists you can refer to within each cancer screening and cancer prevention QI module, or within resources and tools

Utilise the module specific Quick Reference Guides and Model for Improvement templates to plan your QI activities.  

The templates will step you through both the ‘planning’ and ‘thinking’ for the different levels of suggested QI activities for each module. 

Utilising the Plan, Do, Study, ACT approach in each template supports a structured approach to making sustainable changes and recording key learnings for your practice team.

  Where can I find the guides and templates?

• The Quick Reference Guides can be found at the beginning of each module and also within the resources and tools section of this website
• The QI activity templates can be found within the 'Quality Improvement' section of each module and also within the resources and tools section of this website