It was KGHP’s values that attracted me to the organisation in 2016, when I undertook a 6-month placement at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone’s tertiary centre in the capital, Freetown. I helped the heath records team design and implement a new system of patient folders with unique identifiers.
The system is still functioning well today and Connaught’s medical records team continues to improve it. The data available is now used in ongoing quality improvement and research projects. All I really did was make some suggestions for how we could approach designing the system, drawing on my experience as an NHS hospital service manager, and they did the rest, backed by practical and moral support from me.