An evaluation of the Health Foundation's Engaging with Quality Initiative

Background

The Engaging with Quality Initiative was inspired by the claim that clinicians are attentive to the need to improve quality in healthcare but are often not sufficiently or appropriately engaged in this process. EwQI has funded eight professionally led projects, each of which involves clinicians in different ways in different approaches to quality improvement.  

All the projects involve clinical areas where there is thought to be a bridgeable gap between good and actual practice. Each project includes measures to narrow the gap and to measure how successful this has been.

Contents 

Chapter 1 Developing context and background
Chapter 2 Key issues
Chapter 3 Service user involvement in EwQI projects – a discussion
Chapter 4 Preparing for the Delphi
Chapter 5 Progress against aims

Who should read this report 

This report will be of interest to those in and connected to the initiative.