Introduction

Aims and Mission

The Team

The QI Process

The National Cancer Grid is committed to achieving its vision of excellence in cancer care, by nurturing the capacity and culture of high quality services across India. For the purpose of capacity building in Quality Improvement (QI), NCG now hosts a ‘Quality Improvement Hub’ (QI Hub-India). This has been done in collaboration with Stanford Medicine- USA, a leader in educational programs for quality improvement for clinical teams, through the generous grant from the Tata Trusts. The QI Hub functions in collaboration with the QI leadership team from Stanford Medicine, USA to enable high standard QI skills, that are accessible and available to Hub personnel, to the team of India based mentors and to the participating teams. It is the facilitatory centre for the annual QI projects and serves to access, disseminate and highlight Quality Improvement competencies. It will also be the resource for best practices in the field. QI Hub is the formalised outcome of the pilot project done in 2017-2018, when the core QI leadership team at Stanford Medicine, partnered with Indian leadership in palliative care. Physician leaders (team coaches) were recruited from seven global universities as QI faculty, to engage with the clinical teams from India to develop the PAICE program – Promoting Assessment & Improvement of Cancer Experience (List of Participation). This program combines Stanford’s structured curriculum with mentored experience, designing and implementing quality improvement projects to positively impact care. The PAICE program will initiate a common dataset to drive comparative understanding of performance and effective interventions, beginning 2020. The project outputs of each cohort will be utilized to develop national measures and standards in the quality of care

Vision of the QI Hub programme is to improve the quality of clinical services in cancer care in India through development of an internal capacity for quality improvement." class="system-pagebreak"