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Common challenges to improving quality
Date published: 16 April 2012In my experience, improvement leaders often begin new areas of work with a compelling personal vision of the potential for quality to be much improved. I think there’s a cultural bias in health management of action over reflection, and often a ...
Next steps for the quality improvement community in Scotland
Date published: 18 January 2012It feels like quality improvement programmes are everywhere in healthcare just now. Everybody wants to embed it in daily practice, so that quality improvement is ‘just how we do things here’. But is it truly embedded where you work? Pr...
Shared decision making: time to act now!
Date published: 07 December 2011We need action on the ground to ensure Secretary of State's rhetoric around shard decision making becomes reality, says Stephen Thornton. Words are important and leadership right from the top is essential. But action ultimately speaks louder than wor...
Quality improvement lessons from the US
Date published: 20 September 2011We need to harness the positive energy that already exists for improving quality, but hospitals run at such a pace and with continuous capacity issues this can seem impossible, says Tricia Woodhead.
Get out there and see for yourself
Date published: 01 September 2011It is all too easy to claim to be too busy and therefore to have to rely, at worst, on memory of what life used to be like at the coal face, or at best on what others tell you is happening. There is nothing to beat getting out there and seeing for yo...
A year in the US and learning to adjust
Date published: 31 August 2011Being back from a year at the IHI is a little like having stepped back one or two steps from the daily reality, and having a more questioning and reflective perspective, but also having a head full of new ideas from all the many interesting organisat...
Who at the very top is responsible for patient safety?
Date published: 05 August 2011Following the launch of the outline of the new NHS Commissioning Board, Martin Bromiley discusses where he thinks the responsibilities of patient safety lie.
Learning to cross the bridge: my GenerationQ journey
Date published: 21 June 2011GenerationQ is not just about leadership and quality improvement theories, says Tim Lyttle, a current GenerationQ fellow. It’s about leaders as individuals and the day-to-day conversations and actions, which they chose to engage in and perform....
A weekend of inspiration – a glimmer of hope for the NHS
Date published: 15 June 2011It is not often that 35 busy professionals come together for a weekend of discussion, reflection and inspiration. Yet that is what happened recently with the Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellows, says Peter Lachman.
Getting it right: top tips for GenerationQ applications
Date published: 25 January 2011Sophie Bulmer, the Programme Officer for our GenerationQ programme, shares her top tips for making your application stand out.
Our wish for the future of leadership
Date published: 21 December 2010The turn of the year is always a useful prompt to reflect on achievements, challenges, and wishes for the future.
Head down or up for the challenge?
Date published: 05 October 2010This country has an NHS that it should be proud of and indeed many of us are. We have made significant improvements over the past few years in relation to both quality of care and efficiency, however we are a long way from achieving this universally....
