Research
Dementia care
Improvement report
This improvement report aims to bring together data, research and good practice guidance for dementia services, together with an assessment of the current quality gap. We will also recommend actions that need to be taken to bring UK practice up to recommended levels.
Healthcare professionals’ views on clinician engagement in quality improvement
Best evidence review
Evidence review updating the 2007 report 'Healthcare professionals’ views on clinician engagement in quality improvement'.
Helping people help themselves
Best evidence review
As the population ages and our lifestyles and habits change, more and more people are living with long term conditions that cannot currently be cured. We have commissioned the Evidence Centre to review the international literature of the evidence that self-management works and the types of support that are most effective.
New ways of working in primary and community care
Best evidence review
We have commissioned a review of the international literature on the transfer or relocation of hospital-based services in to primary and community care.
The Commonwealth Fund 2010 international health policy survey of health service users in eleven countries
Original research
What is revalidation? In Policy
Original research
‘What is revalidation? In Policy’ is an 18-month (2010-2011) primary research study that aims to explore policy and decision makers’ views of the origins, definitions, and potential purpose of revalidation. It will also address how revalidation relates to concerns about assuring and promoting patient safety and quality of care.
