Maggie Mackinnon Email and Phone Number

The principal function of this post was to provide a supportive (but capacity-building) service to clinicians who are involved in taking forward quality improvement initiatives to implement national, local or service level priorities. This is through providing a range of skills: project planning; project management; pinpointing sources of evidence, information and improvement tools; designing data collection tools (including audit and surveys); data analysis; report writing; abstract writing;… Show more The principal function of this post was to provide a supportive (but capacity-building) service to clinicians who are involved in taking forward quality improvement initiatives to implement national, local or service level priorities. This is through providing a range of skills: project planning; project management; pinpointing sources of evidence, information and improvement tools; designing data collection tools (including audit and surveys); data analysis; report writing; abstract writing; poster design; guideline development; facilitation, including process mapping and focus groups linked to improvement initiatives; gathering patient experience via surveys, semi-structured interviews/patient stories Show less

Management of a national project delivering a specific action of Living and Dying Well in the development of a national palliative care information resource for patients and carers, regardless of their diagnosis. The web resource was launched on 16 January 2012 and is available at www.nhsinform.co.uk/palliativecare

Central point of contact and communication at NHS Board; responding and co-ordinating response to respiratory related letters addressed to the CEO; development of proposals to Board for funding service development, alongside lead clinicians; reviewing disease related data, budgetary responsibility, liaising with industry, acaedemic and voluntary sectors identifying joint working opportunities to benefit patients, carers and healthcare practitioners

The project officer post was based in the performance assessment unit of NHS QIS. During my employment I was involved in 2 projects, national overview of cervical screening standards and peer review of Clinical Governance and Risk Management Standards