

Royal Surrey’s Transformation and Quality Improvement team holds regular sessions for staff giving them the chance to highlight and share improvements they have made to ways of working within their department.
Members of the trust’s Executive team are invited along to these sessions to hear about and applaud the changes that have been made and the impact they’ve had.
In a recent session, Ivan Maglanque, Lead Falls Prevention Nurse, shared his new initiative designed to make patients who are at high risk of falls more visible to staff.
Bright yellow socks are provided for these vulnerable patients to wear, with the aim of improving their visibility and helping all staff to be more aware of them in the ward.
The proposal for the introduction of the bright socks was assessed and approved and Ivan’s idea is now being piloted with patients on the frailty wards at Royal Surrey.
The Transformation team’s sessions demonstrate how small improvements can lead to outcomes that make a difference for both patients and staff at the hospital.
Pictured above, Ivan with his falls prevention proposal and patient David Beamish with nurse Annie.