Quality control: keeping a tight grip on systems
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 ...
Improvement research goes large!
It started like an Agatha Christie novel: a group of people from around the world, huddled together in an English country house, waiting for the ash from an Icelandic volcano to clear from the skie...
Countdown to the Q Improvement Lab: five things you need to know
It's no secret that health and care systems all over the world are under pressure and organisations are facing increasingly complex challenges. Some of the current approaches to tackling these chal...
Carl Macrae, Improvement Science Fellow
Carl Macrae is a social psychologist specialising in how organisations achieve high levels of safety, quality and resilience. His work has focused on health care and aviation. Formerly a special...
Christopher Burton, Improvement Science Fellow
Chris is a senior research fellow with the School of Healthcare Sciences at Bangor University in Wales, where he is working with a team of improvement scientists. He holds a PhD in health scienc...
Davina Allen, Improvement Science Fellow
Davina qualified as a registered general nurse from Cambridge and Huntingdon School of Nursing and has a PhD in sociology from the University of Nottingham. She was appointed post-doctoral rese...
Dougal Hargreaves, Improvement Science Fellow
Dougal Hargreaves' 2014 Improvement Science fellowship project aims to improve care of long-term conditions in children and young people.
Eleanor Murray, Improvement Science Fellow
Eleanor Murray's 2014 Improvement Science Fellowship project will involve assessing large-scale system change as a mechanism to achieve patient safety.
Julie Reed, Improvement Science Fellow
Julie Reed is the research strategy manager for the National Institute for Healthcare Research CLAHRC (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care) for north west London. Sh...
Josephine Ocloo, Improvement Science Fellow
Josephine Ocloo's 2014 Improvement Science Fellowship project will be on understanding the impact of patient and public involvement in patient safety improvement activities.
