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Bringing research to the front line: next steps for our improvement research institute

15 August 2016

Will Warburton

I’ll never forget how I felt the day I found out I had let down hundreds of patients. Paper records of referrals to one of the services I was accountable for had been found in a drawer. They had...

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Quality control: keeping a tight grip on systems

17 July 2014

Nick Barber

There is a paradox about safety in hospitals. In more than 20 years of research I often found errors in 5-10% (and sometimes far higher) of actions, and yet there are certain areas of hospitals in ...

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The application of improvement science

19 July 2011

Martin Marshall

The health sector is not short of new ideas, many of them derived from basic and clinical research, which have the potential to improve outcomes for patients. The challenge for health systems aroun...

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