Red and Green Bed Days‘Red and Green Bed Days’ are a visual management system to assist in the identification of wasted time in a patient’s journey. 

Applicable to in-patient wards in both acute and community settings, this approach is used to reduce internal and external delays as part of the SAFER patient flow bundle.It is not appropriate for high turnover areas such as Emergency Departments, Assessment Units, Clinical Decision Units/Observation Units, and Short Stay Units where using Red and Green on an hours/minutes basis may be more appropriate.You can read the Rapid Improvement Guide here

Spreading and sustaining red2green in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Building on the learning of the MCA Ward Collaborative and involvement in the NHS Improvement safety initiatives to test we knew we needed to develop new approaches to piloting and spread from 12 wards to 65 wards

Piloting a new approach - Red2Green is a new development to the Trust and there was uncertainty of how it would work locally. You can find out here how Sheffield managed and maintained spread.

RED to GREEN days: eliminating ‘waste’ to improve patient care - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust

Exploring options to reach maximum staff with minimal cost to the organisation, without taking clinical staff away from the clinical areas, the concept of utilising the Trust eLearning platform came to fruition. We utilised resources from NHSI to support this as well as our own organisations posters.

In the first 2 months 132 staff members have accessed the eLearning tool. 89 staff members completed it with 87 of those passing the quiz at the end (98% pass rate). You can find out more here