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Tag Archives: Quality Improvement Methodologies
Systems Thinking For NHS Quality Improvement (NHS Improvement)
Summary The following report explores how an engineering (sic “systems”) approach to service re-design could contribute to quality improvement in health and social care. Full Text Link Reference Engineering better care: a systems approach to health and care design and … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Improvement, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards
Tagged Academy of Medical Sciences: King's College London, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Quality Improvement, Engineering Better Care: a Systems Approach, Esther Model, Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Future Hospital, Future Hospital Commission (FHC), Future Hospital Programme, Healthcare and Engineering Improvement Approaches, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Holistic Quality Improvement, Iterative Improvement, Map of Healthcare and Engineering Improvement Approaches, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycles, PDSA Cycles, PDSA Improvement Methodology, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Approaches, Quality Improvement Methodologies, Quality Improvement Resources, Quality Improvement Terminology, Quality Improvement Tools, RCP's Future Hospitals Model, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Physicians’ Future Hospital Commission (RCP FHC), Sweden’s Esther Model: Improving Care for Elderly Patients with Complex Needs, Systems and Processes, Systems Approach, Systems Thinking, Systems-Spiral Improvement Process, Whole System Change, Whole-System Approaches
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A New Quality Improvement Manual (HQIP) Plus an Investigation Into Online Repositories of Quality Improvement (BMJ Quality and Safety / BMJ / King’s Fund)
Summary Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has produced a guide to the main twelve quality improvement (QI) methods. Section headings comprise: Introduction: Purpose. Definition of ‘quality’. Good governance. Regulation, accreditation and inspection. Patient involvement in quality improvement. Collaboration for quality … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A Mental Health Interactive Database (PIRAMHIDS), AcademyHealth, AcademyHealth: EDM Forum, Accreditation, Accreditation Canada, Accreditation Canada: Leading Practices Database, American Society for Quality, American Society for Quality: Fishbone Cause and Effect Tool, Audit Cycles, Automation, Balanced Scorecards, Benchmarking, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, BMJ Quality and Safety, Canada, Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement: Patient Engagement Resource Hub, Canadian Health Human Resources Network, Canadian Health Human Resources Network: HHR Innovations Portal, Clinical Audit Cycles, Clinical Audits, Clinical Effectiveness, Clinical Effectiveness and Audit, Clinical Quality Improvement, Collaborative Quality Improvement, Commonwealth Fund, Communication Tools, Continuous Improvement, Decision Trees, Department of Public Health (Finland), Don Berwick: International Visiting Fellow at the King’s Fund, EDM Forum, Evidence-Based Quality Improvement, Finland University of Toronto, Fishbone Cause and Effect Diagrams, Five Whys Technique, Good Governance, Harvard Medical School, Health Care Quality Improvement Project Repository, Health Foundation, Health Foundation's Q Initiative, Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analyses, Healthcare Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (HFMEA), Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Healthcare Improvement Scotland: Positive and Innovative Resources: A Mental Health Interactive Database (PIRAMHIDS), Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Healthcare Technologies for Quality Improvement, Healthy Mendocino, Healthy Mendocino: Promising Practices, Helsingin Yliopisto Laaketieteellinen tiedekunta, Helsinki, HHR Innovations Portal, High Quality Care for All, IDEAS, IDEAS: ShareIDEAS: Health Care Quality Improvement Project Repository, Improvement Institute for Healthcare Improvement Resources, Improving Quality in the NHS: King’s Fund Strategy, Information Exchange, Information Sharing, Innovation and Improvement, Inspection, Institute for Healthcare, Institute for Healthcare: Improvement Institute for Healthcare Improvement Resources, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation: University of Toronto, Jönköping County Council, Jim Mackey: Chief Executive of NHS Improvement, Kaizen, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Leading Practices Database, Lean and Quality Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma, Lean Elimination of Waste, Lean Thinking, Literature Review Journey, Literature Reviews in Quality Improvement, Model for Improvement, Model for Improvement (IHI), Model for Improvement: FOCUS, Modernisation Agency, National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes (NCAPOP) Programme, National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), National Primary Care Collaborative, National Primary Care Development Team (NPCDT), NCAPOP Library, Networks, NHS Improving Quality, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, NHS Institute's Spread and Adoption Tool, NHS Leadership Centre, NHS Modernisation Agency, NHS Scotland, NHS Scotland: Quality Improvement Hub, Online Repositories of Quality Improvement (QI), Online Repositories of Quality Improvement Projects, Patient Engagement Resource Hub, Patient Experience, Patient Involvement in Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Collaboratives, PDSA (Plan Do Study Act) Model, Performance Benchmarking, Performance Targets, Positive and Innovative Resources, Process Mapping, Professor Don Berwick, Promising Practices, QI: Quality Improvement, QIPP Decision Tree, Quality Accounts, Quality Accounts Resource (HQIP), Quality Framework, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement (QI) Methods Directory, Quality Improvement Approaches, Quality Improvement Hub, Quality Improvement Methodologies, Quality Improvement Terminology, Regulation, Remote Technologies for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Root Cause Analyses, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Service Improvement in Healthcare, ShareIDEAS, Spread and Adoption Tool (NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement), Spreading Improvement Ideas, Stakeholder Analysis Tools, Statistical Process Control, Statistical Process Control (SPC) Principles, Statistical Process Control Methodology, Technological Innovations, Telemedicine, UCLPartners, University of Toronto, USA, VA National Centre for Patient Safety: Basics of HFMEA
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The Financial and Human Costs of Mistakes (BBC News / Frontier Economics / CQC / NHS England / NHS IQ / BMJ Quality and Safety / Department of Health / BMC Family Practice)
Summary The NHS in England is being urged to reduce mistakes by half, as mistakes in hospitals cost the NHS around £2.5bn per year. Four aspects of poor patient safety include falls, bed ulcers, urinary infections caused by poorly fitted … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Adverse Events, AHSNs, Australia, Australia's Safety Alert Broadcasting Systems, Avoidable Harm, Avoiding Litigation, Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, BBC Health News, BBC Shared Data Unit, Bed Sores, Bed Ulcers, Behavioural Insights Team, Berwick Review, Berwick Review of Patient Safety, Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH), Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Blood Clots, BMC Family Practice, BMJ Quality and Safety, Bradford, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Capping Lawyers' Payments (Negligence Claims), Care Quality Commission (CQC), Centre for Clinical Governance Research: University of New South Wales, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Costs of NHS Mistakes (Statistics), Costs of Unsafe Care in NHS, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, CQC Hospital Inspections, Decubitus Ulcers, Dr Chris Streather: Managing Director of Health Innovation Network (AHSN for South London), Dr Liz Mear: Chief Executive, Dr Mike Durkin: NHS England’s Director of Patient Safety, DVT, Effectiveness, Ensuring Correct Personal Information, Falls Prevention, Financial Incentives, Financial Penalties, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Francis Inquiry, Frontier Economics Ltd, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Haelo (Innovation and Improvement Centre), Harm Free Care, Harm Free Care Website (Run by Haelo Team), HC 691, Healthbus, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Hospital Aquired VTE, Hospital Discharge, IHI Outpatient Adverse Event Trigger Tool, Improving Patient Safety, Incentives, Infection Prevention, Institute of Psychological Sciences, Institute of Psychological Sciences: University of Leeds, Leeds, Legal Costs: Negligence Claims, Litigation Claims, Local Area Teams (LATs), Local Patient Safety Collaboratives, Medical Negligence Claims, Medicines Safety, National Audit Office (NAO), National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), Negligence Claims Against the NHS, Never Events, Never Events Policy Framework, Never Events Policy Framework Review, Never Events Policy Framework Review Consultation, NHS Area Teams (ATs), NHS England's Sign Up to Safety Campaign, NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS IQ, NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), NHS Resolution, NHS Safety Thermometer, NHS Standard Contract, NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre: University of Manchester, North West Coast AHSN, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, NRLS Harm Definitions, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Patient Safety, Patient Safety Collaboratives, Patient Safety Collaboratives Programme, Patient Safety Thermometer, Pay-Outs by NHS Litigation Authority, Payments in Respect of Negligence Claims Against the NHS, Performance Incentives, Positive and Negative Deviance, Positive Behaviours, Positive Deviance, Pressure Sores, Pressure Ulcer Avoidance, Pressure Ulcers, Pressure Ulcers: Prevention, Preventable Adverse Events, Productivity, Professor Don Berwick, Promise to Learn: Berwick Report, Prospective and Proactive Thinking, Quality Improvement Methodologies, Raising Concerns, Raising Questions, Reducing Clinical Negligence Claims, Reducing Litigation Costs, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Safety Alert Broadcasting Systems (Australia), Safety Initiatives, Safety Standards in Hospitals, Safety Standards in Hospitals in England, Safety Thermometer, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, School of Community Health Sciences: University of Nottingham Medical School, Serious Incident Framework, Service Redesign for Productivity, Severe Pressure Ulcers, Sign up to Safety, Sign Up to Safety Campaign, Sign Up to Safety Pledges, STEIS, Strategic Executive Information System (StEIS), Suzette Woodward: Sign Up to Safety, Tools for Primary Care Patient Safety, UK NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Primary Care Trigger Tool, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, University of New South Wales, University of Nottingham, University of Nottingham Medical School, Unsafe Care in NHS, Urinary Catheters, Urinary Infections, Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Tract Infections (in Patients with Catheters), Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Venous Thromboembolisms (VTEs), VTE (Venous Thromboembolism), Winterbourne View, Zero Harm
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