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Tag Archives: Patient-Centred Culture
More on Organisational Approaches to Quality Improvement (Health Foundation / BMJ)
Summary The Health Foundation’s report investigates lessons derived from sponsoring and evaluating quality improvement, whether at team, organisation and / or system levels. Case studies covering three NHS trusts in England with a CQC rating of “Outstanding” and which implemented … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged AQuA’s QI Maturity Matrix, Barriers to Engagement, Barriers to Involvement, BMJ, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Chamberlain’s QI Building Blocks Framework, Co-production in Quality Improvement, Compassionate Care, Compassionate Inclusive and Effective Leaders, Compassionate Leadership, Compassionate Leadership and Innovation, Compassionate Leadership: Cultural Elements, Culture and Environment, Culture of Compassionate Care, Delivering Safe and Compassionate Care, Department of Applied Health Research: University College London (UCL), East London NHS Foundation Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), East London NHS Foundation Trust (QI), ELFT QI Method, Enablers of Organisational Improvement, GenerationQ, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health Foundation's Quality Improvement Reports, Improving Patient Safety, Infrastructure and Resources, Innovative Leadership, Intermountain Healthcare Delivery Institute, Intrinsic Motivation, Involvement and Participation, Jönköping County Council, Jönköping County Council: Sweden, Jönköping County Council’s QI Programme (Sweden), Johns Hopkins Medicine, Kaizen, Leaders Comfortable With More Autonomy at All Levels, Leadership, Leadership and Culture, Leadership and Governance, Leadership for Improvement Board Development Programme, Leadership Style, Lean and Quality Improvement, Lean Programme, Learning Culture, Learning-Based Approaches, Macro Meso and Micro Contributions to Quality Improvement, Macro Meso and Micro Contributions to Quality of Healthcare, Maximising Health Outcomes, Minimising NHS Costs, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS Partnership with Virginia Mason Institute, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Open Culture, ORCA Tool, Organisation-Wide Approaches to Quality Improvement, Organisational Barriers to Improvement, Organisational Improvement, ORIC Measure, Outstanding Care, Overcoming Challenges to Improving Quality, Overcoming Inertia, Patient Safety, Patient-Centred Culture, People-Driven Approaches to Change, Positive Culture, Positive Inclusion and Participation, Problem-Solving and Innovation, QI Culture, QI: Quality Improvement, QSIR, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Approaches, Quality Improvement Culture, Quality Improvement Resources, Quality Service Improvement and Redesign (QSIR) Programmes, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Research Culture, Respect for Autonomy, Return on Investment From QI, RUBIS.Qi, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Microsystems Coaching Academy, Skills and Workforce, Staff Empowerment, Staff Empowerment in the NHS, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Staff Motivation, Tackling Barriers to Innovation, Thedacare Accountable Care, Transformative Culture, Transparent Learning Culture, UCL Department of Applied Health Research, University College London (UCL), Virginia Mason Institute Production System, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Re-Vamped NHS Change Model (NHS England)
Summary NHS England’s Sustainable Improvement Team has released an updated version of the “NHS Change Model”, which last appeared in 2012. The model provides a framework intended to help guide NHS projects aiming to achieve transformational and sustainable change. The … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accelerating Innovation, Autonomy for Staff Innovation, Barriers to Innovation, Change Model Action Planning Template, Change Model Action Planning Templates, Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Collaborative Leadership, Collaborative Working, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Boundary Care Pathways, Cross-Organisation Learning, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Culture and Leadership, Culture Change, Culture of Care, Culture of Empowerment and Support, Culture of Safety, Culture: Lack of Leadership Support for Innovation (Barriers to Innovation), Culture: Silo Thinking in System (Barriers to Innovation), Engagement to Mobilise; Transparent Measurement and Rigorous Delivery, Evaluating Healthcare Quality Improvement, Improvement Framework for Commissioners; Delivering Large Scale Measurable Change, Improvement Science, Improvement Tools - Key Questions: Change Model Action Planning Template, Leadership by All - Key Questions: Change Model Action Planning Template, Leading Large Scale Change, Measurement - Key Questions: Change Model Action Planning Template, Motivate and Mobilise - Key Questions: Change Model Action Planning Template, New Care Models, New Models of Care, NHS Change Model, NHS Change Model: Engagement to Mobilise, NHS Change Model: Improvement Methodology, NHS Change Model: Leadership for Change, NHS Change Model: Rigorous Delivery., NHS Change Model: Shared Purpose, NHS Change Model: Spread of Innovation, NHS Change Model: System Drivers, NHS Change Model: Transparent Measurement, NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, No Harm Culture, Open Culture, Organisational Culture, Our Shared Purpose - Key Questions: Change Model Action Planning Template, Overcoming Challenges to Improving Quality, Patient Safety, Patient-Centred Culture, Positive Culture, Positive Inclusion and Participation, Problem-Solving and Innovation, Project and Performance Management - Key Questions: Change Model Action Planning Template, QI Culture, Quality Improvement, Research Culture, Shaping Culture, Spread and Adoption - Key Questions: Change Model Action Planning Template, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Improvement Team and Horizons Team (NHS England), Sustainable Improvement Team: NHS England, System Drivers - Key Questions: Change Model Action Planning Template
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Compassionate Leadership and Innovation in Health Care (King’s Fund / Health Foundation / NHS Leadership Academy / Novartis)
Summary Four aspects of organisational culture which might better promote innovative and high-quality care in the NHS are said to comprise: An inspiring vision and strategy. A culture of inclusion and participation. More open team and cross-boundary working. Greater support … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, National, NHS, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accelerating Innovation, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Adopters and Adoption of Innovation, Adoption of Innovations, Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA), AQuA (NHS Organisation), Aravind Eye Care Systems, Autonomy for Staff Innovation, Barriers to Innovation, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Cascading Leadership Pilot, Cascading Leadership: Leadership in Voluntary and Community Sector, Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Collaborative Leadership, Collaborative Working, Collective Leadership, Community-Based Dementia Care Networks, Compassion: the Core NHS Cultural Value, Compassionate Leadership, Compassionate Leadership and Innovation, Compassionate Leadership: Cultural Elements, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Boundary Care Pathways, Cross-Organisation Learning, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Culture and Leadership, Culture Change, Culture of Care, Culture of Empowerment and Support, Culture of Safety, Culture: Lack of Leadership Support for Innovation (Barriers to Innovation), Culture: Provider/Commissioner Risk Aversion (Barriers to Innovation), Culture: Silo Thinking in System (Barriers to Innovation), Developing People - Improving Care: National Framework for Leadership Development (NHS Improvement), Diffusion of Innovation, Empathy in Design (IDEO), End to Silo Working, Extreme Teaming: Delivering Integrated Care, Facilitating Large Scale Change Skills Development Programme, Fearless Organisations: Creating Psychological Safety for Teaming Failing and Learning, Freeing the NHS to Innovate, Healthcare Leadership Model, HEE: Health Education England, High-Quality Home Care (Buurtzorg: Netherlands), Horizon-Scanning, Improving Patient Safety, Inclusion, Inclusiveness, Inspiring Vision and Strategy, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Inter-Teamworking, Leadership and Organisational Development Team: King’s Fund, Leadership Development in NHS-Funded Services, Leadership for Culture Change, Leading Large Scale Change: A Practical Guide, Learning Culture, Narayana Health, National Improvement and Leadership Development Board (NILD), New Care Models, New Models of Care, NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Connecting Services, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Developing Capability, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Engaging the Team, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Evaluating Information, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Holding to Account, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Influencing for Results, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Inspiring Shared Purpose, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Leading With Care, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Nine Dimensions of Leadership Behaviour, NHS Healthcare Leadership Model: Sharing Vision, NHS Improvement’s National Framework for Leadership Development, NHS Leadership Academy, NHS Leadership Academy (NHS LA), NHS Leadership Academy Moved From NHS England to Health Education England, NHS Patient Safety Culture, NHS Quest, No Harm Culture, Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK, Novartis), Open Culture, Organisational Culture, Patient Safety, Patient-Centred Culture, Positive Culture, Positive Inclusion and Participation, Problem-Solving and Innovation, Professional Silos, Professor Amy Edmondson: Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, QI Culture, Quality Improvement, Research Culture, Sankara Eye, Shaping Culture, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Improvement Team and Horizons Team (NHS England), Sustainable Improvement Team: NHS England, Teamworking, VUCA World: Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous
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Time to Deliver on the Five Year Forward View (BBC News / NHS England / Department of Health)
Summary The seven main national health bodies (namely NHS England, Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Public Health England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Health Education England) jointly published … Continue reading →
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Social Care, Creative Use of NHS Estate, Culture, Culture and Leadership, Culture Change, Dalton Review (2014), Demand Management, Department of Biology and Woods Institute: Stanford University, Department of Psychology: Stanford University, Devon, Diabetes Prevention Programme, Efficiency Savings, Efficiency Savings: Diverting Resources to Front-Line Care, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources: Stanford University, Encouraging Innovation, Enforced Support (New Success Regime), Essex, Estate Efficiencies, Expert Patient Programme, Failing Hospitals, Failing Services (NHS and Social Care), Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Finance and Procurement, Finance Directorate, Financial Context, Financial Pressures, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Forest Bathing, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Forward View, Forward View Progress: Pilot Programmes Map, Funding Challenges, Gary Caplin: Chief Executive of Virginia Mason Hospital (Seattle), Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Governance Arrangements Driving the Five Year Forward View, GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Greater Manchester, Greening Grey Britain Campaign, Harpal Kumar: Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, Harpal Kumar: Head of NHS Cancer Taskforce, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Costs, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Reform, Health and Social Care Services, Health and Social Care: Integration Transformation Fund, Hospital Chains, Hospital Waiting Times, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Mental Health Services by 2020, Improving Access to Psychological 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Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Vanguards, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Deal for Primary Care, New Models of Care, New Success Regime (NHS England), NHS Clinical Commissioners, NHS Confederation Annual Conference 2015, NHS Confederation Conference (2015)), NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS England Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s New Success Regime, NHS England’s Success Regime, NHS Expert Patient Programme (EPP), NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Five Year Forward View Board, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Procurement, NHS Providers, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (NTDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), NHS Waiting Times, NHS Warrington CCG, NHS: Rated World’s Best Health Service, NICE Abandoning Work on Safe 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Standards, School of Community Medicine (Tulsa USA), Self-Care, Self-Help, Service Redesign, Service Transformation, Shared Strategic Planning, Shinrin-Yoku: Taking in the Forest Atmosphere aka Forest Bathing, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir David Dalton: Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Social Care, Social Isolation, Social Prescribing, Specialists in Out-Of-Hospital Settings, SSAC: Safe Staffing Advisory Committee, Staff Retention, Staff Sickness Levels, Stanford University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex (sgPFC), Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex Activation, Success Regime (NHS England), Success Regimes in England, Surgical Never Events, Sustainable Funding, SWASFT Right Care Right Place Right Time Initiative, Sweden, Thinking Outside of the Box, Transformational Commissioning, UEC Vanguards, Upstream Interventions, Urbanization and Mental Illness, Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards, Vanguard Programme, Variations in Procurement, Virginia Mason Hospital: Seattle, Voluntary and Community Sector, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times and Access Standards, Workforce Advisory Board, Workforce Advisory Board Exemplars, Workforce Race Equality Standard
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RCP’s Future Hospital Model: An Update (RCP)
Summary The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) earlier this month released a further document explaining their model for the future hospital. Roughly a year since publication of the original plan, and in readiness for the 2015 general election, the RCP … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 10-Year Vision, 2015 Challenge: NHS Confederation, ACH: Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Coordinator, Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Hub (ACH), Acute Hospital Care, Admissions, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Balance Between Care by Specialists and Generalists, Barriers to Engagement, Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Bed/Ward Moves, Beyond Institutional Boundaries, Care and Compassion, Care by Specialists and Generalists, Care focused on Prevention and Recovery, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care Seven Days a Week, Clinical Co-Ordination Centre, Clinical Coordination Centre, Clinical Coordination Centre (CCC), Clinical Leadership, Clinical Leadership for Cross Boundary Service Redesign, Clinical Quality Improvement, Clinician Citizenship, Collaboration, Collaborative Working, Communication, Community Care, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Compassionate Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Discharge Ward, Complex Needs, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Consultant Input, Consultant Physicians, Continuity of Care, Coordinated Specialist Care, Culture of Compassionate Care, Delivering the Future Hospital, Discharge, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Early Senior Review Across Medical Specialties, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Early Supported Discharge Teams, Elderly Care Assessment Unit (ECAU), Electronic Patient Record (EPR), Electronic Patient Records: NHS, End to Silo Working, Enhanced Care, Enhanced Recovery Programmes, Evidence-Based Legislation, Expert Care and Assessment, Extended Roles for Physicians in the Community, Extension of Hospital Services Into the Community, Five Point Plan for Hospitals (RCP), Frailty Units, Future Hospital Commission, Future Hospital Explained, Future Hospital Principles, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Generalist Inpatient Pathways, Generalist Ward-Based Teams, Generalists, Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit (GEMU), Good Communication, Handover, Health and Social Care Integration, High Dependency Unit (HDU), Holistic Care, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, Hospital Reconfiguration, Hospital: More Than a Building (RCP), Hospital–Community Interface, Hospital’s Public Health Role, Improving Public Health, Information Sharing, Information to Revolutionise Care, Integrated Acute and Specialist Care Beyond the Hospital, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrating Health and Social Care, Intermediate Care, Joined-Up Care, Large Scale Tendering of Health Services (in England), Liaison Psychiatry Services, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Division, Medical Division Remit, Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF), Medical Professionalism, Models of Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multidisciplinary CGA Approach, Multiple Health Issues, Multiple Needs, Multiple-Morbidities, Named Consultants, New Model of Care: Future Hospital Commission, New Model of Clinical Care (RCP), New Structures in the Future Hospital, NHS Confederation’s 2015 Challenge, NHS Service Reconfiguration, No Harm Culture, Ongoing Care, Optimal Assessment in Hospital, Out of Hours Services, Outliers, Outreach Services, Overcoming Barriers, Patient Discharge, Patient Experience, Patient-Centred Care, Patient-Centred Culture, Patient-Centred Vision, Payments to Drive Collaboration, Post-Discharge Activities, Post-Discharge Support, Preventative Care, Preventive Care, Primary / Secondary Care Interface, Principles of Patient Care (RCP), Principles of Service Redesign, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins: Chairman of Future Hospital Commission, Public Health, Public Health Agenda, Public Health Interventions, Rapid Access (‘Hot’) Clinics, RCP Acute Medicine Task Force, RCP’s Patient and Carer Network, Recovery, Rehabilitation Services, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Physicians of London, Safe and Compassionate Care, Seamless Care Between Settings, Self-Management, Self-Management in Chronic Illness, Self-Management Support, Service Redesign, Service Reviews, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Shared Decision-Making, Shared Responsibility, Single Medical Division, Specialist Inpatient Pathways, Stable Medical Teams, Support to Care Home Residents, Supporting Patients to Leave Hospital, Tackling Barriers to Innovation, Team Working, Teams, Urgent Care Centre (UCC), Vision of Patient Care: Future Hospital Commission, Vulnerable Older People
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Care Quality Commission: Special Measures Approach for Care Homes? (BBC News)
Summary The system of special measures, designed to improve failing hospitals in England, is likely to be extended to care homes. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2014). Hospital failure regime extended to care homes. London: BBC Health News, July … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Avoidable Harm, BBC Health News, Buddying Schemes, Care Home Assessments, Care Home Inspections, Care Home Market, Care Home Regulation, Care Home Sector, Care Homes, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Compassion and Care, Compassionate Care, Culture Change, Culture of Zero-Harm, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Dignity and Respect, Failing Care Homes, Failing Hospitals, Human Rights in Care Homes, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Independent Scrutiny, Living Well in Care Homes, Management Changes, National Care Association (NCA), NHS Culture, NHS Patient Safety Culture, NHS Safe Staffing, No Harm Culture, Nurse Staffing Levels, Open Culture, Openness and Transparency, Organisational Culture, Patient Safety, Patient-Centred Culture, Professor Sir Mike Richards: Former Chief Inspector of Hospitals (CQC), Quality Ratings, Rating Systems, Safe Staffing, Safeguarding Adults in Care Homes, Scrutiny, Special Measures, Transparency, Transparency and Public Trust
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NHS Reform: Reform From Within (King’s Fund)
Summary The “Reforming the NHS from within: beyond hierarchy, inspection and markets” report from the King’s Fund reviews different approaches to reforming the NHS in England. The focus is said to be on the implementation of new models of care … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
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Tagged Active Engagement, Approaches to Improving Public Services, Barker Commission, Bottom-Up NHS Reform, Canterbury District Health Board: DHB (New Zealand), Characteristics of Continuously Learning Health Care Systems, Choice, Choice and Competition, Chris Ham: The King’s Fund, Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Collaborative Leadership, Collaborative Working, Command-and-Control Versus Systems Thinking, Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, Commitment (Rather Than Compliance), Competition and Choice, Complementary Approaches to Reform, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning Culture, Cultural Leadership, Decentralisation of Public Services, Devolution (NHS Reform), Edwards Deming, Enabling Devolution, Engagement, Extrinsic Motivation, Front Line Engagement, Government Policy, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Care Reform, Health Policy, Health Reform, High-Performing Organisations, Improvement From Within, Incentives, Inspection and Regulation, Institute for Government (IfG), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Institute of Medicine (IOM), Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Intermountain Healthcare (US), International Comparisons, Intrinsic Motivation, Jönköping County Council: Sweden, Kaizen, Kate Barker: Chair of Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England, King's Fund’s Time to Think Differently Programme, Lack of Consistency, Leadership, Leadership Development, Learning Organisations, Local Leadership, Local Strategic Commissioning, NHS Leadership, NHS Management, NHS Modernisation Agency, NHS Payment Reform, NHS Reform, Openness and Transparency, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), Patient Choice, Patient Engagement, Patient-Centred Culture, Patient-Centred Leadership, Patient-Centred Vision, Patient–Clinician Partnerships, Performance Targets, Policy, Provider Engagement, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Approaches, Realistism in Inspection and Regulation, Reforming Social Care, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust’s Improvement Strategy, Science and Informatics, Self-Directed Care, Shared Culture, Social Care Reform, Staff Motivation, Systems Thinking in the Public Sector, Targets, Targets and Performance Management, Tendency Towards Hyperactivity (Interventionism), Time to Think Differently Programme, Top-Down Policy, Toyota Production System (TPS), Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Unwarranted Variations, Veterans Health Administration (VA), Virginia Mason Medical Center (US), Virginia Mason Production System (VMPS), Westminster and Whitehall
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Healthcare Providers Supplying Misleading Information: Consultation (Department of Health)
Summary The Care Bill 2014 will make it a criminal offence for healthcare providers to supply or publish false or misleading information. The offence in the Care Bill is wide in its areas of potential interpretation, so may be limited by … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Department of Health, In the News, Local Interest, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accuracy of Public Information, Ambulance Response Rate Times, Applying FOMI to Quality Accounts, C.difficile Rates, Cancer Outcomes Dataset, Candour, Care Bill 2013-14, Commissioning Data Sets (CDS) and Quality Accounts, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Culture Change, Data Errors, False or Misleading Information, False or Misleading Information (FOMI), FOMI Offence, Friends and Family Test (FFT), Government Response to Francis Inquiry Report, Hard Truths, Healthcare Providers Supplying Misleading Information: Consultation, Honesty, Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) Complaints, Hospital Mortality Rates, Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs), Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Improving Patient Safety, Incentivising Candour, Inspections by CQC, Liberating the NHS: Transparency in Outcomes, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Misleading Information, Myocardial Infarction, National Cancer Waiting Times Dataset, National Maternity Services Dataset (NMDS), NHS Culture, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts, Open Culture, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational and Professional Cultures, Organisational Culture and Climate, Patient Safety Incident Reporting, Patient-Centred Culture, Positive Culture, Provider Registration with CQC, Reporting Culture, Risk Assessment for Venous Thrombo-Embolism, Stroke, Summary Hospital-level Mortality indicator (SHMI), Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Transparency and Open Data, Transparency and Public Trust
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Changing for the Better? (BBC News)
Summary Thousands of people across the NHS are pledging to try something different to improve care, as their contribution to NHS Change Day. “NHS Change Day is about breaking down traditional barriers and recognising that everyone who works in, uses … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Attitudinal Change, BBC Health News, Bottom-Up NHS Reform, Care and Compassion, Commitment to People with Dementia, Compassionate Care, Culture Change, Culture of Compassionate Care, Delivering Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Dignity in Care, Empathy, Freeing the NHS to Innovate, Grass-Roots NHS Reform, Innovation, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Change Day, NHS Culture, Nursing: a Force for Change, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Patient-Centred Culture, Patients First and Foremost, Positive Culture, Quality Improvement, Safe and Compassionate Care, Spreading Change, Staff Commitment, Staff Engagement, Unison
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Overhaul of Hospital Care (BBC News / RCP / Future Hospital Commission)
Summary The Future Hospital Commission has recommended a radical re-structuring of care for frail elderly people with complex needs. There is a need to avoid multiple moves for patients with multiple morbidities after their admission to hospital. Instead of moving … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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