08 July 2022
The Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) Learning Collaborative, JIA Learn, is an exciting new BSR-funded programme, aiming to improve the quality of care for children and young people with new-onset JIA living across the UK.
We're hugely grateful to the 12 teams who applied to join the collaborative. Each application was well-considered and supported; the judging panel, led by clinical leads Drs Flora McErlane and Gavin Cleary, will now work to whittle this down to the six teams joining the collaborative.
The successful teams will work with an improvement collaborative model (external link) and come together at peer-learning events over 18 months to learn about quality improvement (QI) methodology and work toward improving patient care.
After each face-to-face learning event, the six chosen teams will enter an ‘action period’, where they'll test out their plans in their own clinical settings with the help of an improvement coach, who'll guide teams on how to adapt their aims into real change on the ground.
Patients are at the heart of this collaborative, with a steering group made up of patient representatives, representatives from patient charities, experts in the field of rheumatology, and experts in QI.
The first learning event will be held in Brighton on 27 September, coinciding with our Case-based
and Paediatric and Adolescent conferences.