Academy Summer School

The Academy Summer Series is back.

The West of England Academy is hosting a series of four highly practical online workshops from July to September, designed to help you build confidence and capability in Quality Improvement (QI).

Every session is interactive, with practical tools you can apply immediately in your role, whether or not you are currently working on a formal QI project.

Each workshop is 90 minutes, free to attend, and fully standalone. You can choose to attend a single session or sign up for the full series.

Workshop dates, times and topics

Generating Ideas for Change
Learn practical creative problem‑solving tools to generate, refine and select ideas to test for improvement.
• Wednesday 8 July, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
• Thursday 23 July, 10:00am to 11:30am

Overcoming Obstacles for Change
Understand why change can be difficult and explore practical ways to overcome resistance, behavioural barriers and stalled progress.
• Wednesday 29 July, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
• Thursday 6 August, 10:00am to 11:30am

Getting the Word Out
Build a clear and effective communication plan to share your improvement work, engage stakeholders, and spread learning.
• Wednesday 12 August, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
• Thursday 20 August, 10:00am to 11:30am

Measuring Your Impact
Develop confidence in measuring what matters, using data to understand progress and demonstrate impact in improvement work.
• Wednesday 26 August, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
• Thursday 3 September, 10:00am to 11:30am

Please select which dates you would like to attend when booking and a calendar invite will be sent through to you. 

Who can apply?

The Academy is for people working in health and social care, including NHS colleagues, voluntary and community sector teams, and innovators in the health-tech space living, working or planning to work in the West of England.

If you would like to talk to us about whether this is the right course for you, please do get in touch with healthinnowest.academy@nhs.net