The Clinical Human Factors Group was set up by Martin Bromiley with support from the Health Foundation in 2007. The group is a broad coalition of healthcare professionals, managers and users of services who have partnered with experts in human factors from healthcare and other high-risk industries to campaign for change in the NHS.
Our Clinician Scientist Fellowships provide five-year funding for academic research proposals that will improve patient care.
Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships aims to transform the dynamic between people who use health services and those who provide them.
The focus for this Closing the Gap programme is on quality improvement projects led by clinicians who have a track record as influential leaders in their clinical networks.
This programme has been designed to achieve measurable improvements in the quality of life of patients with a long term condition and to improve their experience of the healthcare system by embedding self management support within mainstream health services.
This programme is working in parallel with the Scottish Quality & Safety Improvement in Primary Care Closing the Gap project and will build expertise, experience and knowledge about patient safety within general practices and boards in NHS Tayside, and NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.
This programme focuses on the relationship between patient flow, costs and outcomes in two NHS hospital trusts. It is examining patient flow through the emergency care pathway and developing ways in which capacity can be better matched with demand, to prevent queues and poor outcomes for patients.
GenerationQ is our flagship leadership programme. It aims to create a group of enthusiasts for quality improvement who will work with the Health Foundation on an ongoing basis to champion continuous improvement in healthcare.
Our Hospital Pathways programme will demonstrate how the health service can achieve its aim of putting the patient at the centre of everything we do. It is run in partnership with The King’s Fund as part of its Point of Care programme, and works with patients, families, healthcare staff and hospital boards to improve the patient experience.
This programme is a new and innovative kind of fellowship, which will provide four fellows with a unique mix of research funding, leadership development, and access to an international network of improvement science experts.
Our work in Malawi - the MaiKhanda programme - has been running since 2006. It aims to reduce by 30% the number of maternal and neonatal deaths in the Lilongwe, Kasungu and Salima districts of Malawi, working within the strategy already established by the Malawi Ministry of Health’s roadmap for maternal health.
This two-year programme began in June 2010 and involves encouraging commissioning of the IRIS mode (supporting GP practices to help them identify and refer patients who are experiencing domestic violence) by primary care trusts and providing educator training.
MAGIC (Making Good Decisions in Collaboration) is a programme which explores how shared decision making can be embedded into clinical practice as a core part of mainstream health services.
The Patient and Family-centred Care programme is a partnership with The King’s Fund. It’s breaking new ground in improving the experience of hospital care for patients and their families, and the working lives of staff. We're currently looking for NHS provider organisations to participate in the next phase (please note there is no grant for this programme).
We are now preparing to implement and test the PRIMO tool more widely in four diverse healthcare settings. This work will focus on identifying key factors for successful implementation, refining the tool and assessing the impact of the tool on staff.
The prestigious Quality Improvement Fellowships programme allows clinically qualified senior NHS professionals to become equipped with the tools and techniques of quality improvement by spending a year at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (www.ihi.org).
Our Safer Clinical Systems programme takes a fresh and proactive approach to safety improvement. Rather than learning from harm and failure once it has occurred, the programme helps healthcare teams proactively identify potential safety breaches, enabling them to build better, safer healthcare systems.
Our Shared Purpose programme will work with up to eight award holder teams who understand the value of aligning staff in corporate support and frontline services around a common purpose: continuously improving the quality of healthcare.
Our annual Shine programme aims to stimulate thinking, activity and the development of innovative approaches that will improve healthcare quality. It gives teams the space and encouragement to try out, develop and evaluate new ideas.
Each year our Shine programme focuses on a different aspect of healthcare quality that reflects a key issue facing the UK health service. The 2011 Shine challenge is to find new approaches to delivering healthcare that reduce the need for acute hospital care while improving quality and saving money.
Open for application
Our annual Shine programme focuses on aspects of healthcare quality that reflect the key issues the UK health service faces. This year the challenge is to find new approaches to delivering healthcare that aim to achieve one of the following: supporting patients to be active partners in their own care, improving patient safety or improving quality while reducing costs.
There are currently no tested models to assess the business case for quality improvement initiatives. A business case model would help departments and organisations illustrate the potential savings from such programmes and would help individuals to see the full impact of their changes.
We are seeking applicants with a passion for improving healthcare who have a clear idea for a network they would like to set up or who are already running an established network with a goal that in some way supports improvement in healthcare.
This programme has been designed to help SHAs develop their patient safety infrastructure, test different programmes and increase understanding of measures that can be used to spread safety improvement across the SHA region.
