A framework for measuring and monitoring safety
This guide aims to support NHS organisations to apply a framework for measuring and monitoring sa...
A programme to spread eGFR graph Surveillance for the early Identification, Support and Treatment of people with progressive Chronic Kidney Disease (ASSIST-CKD)
Led by Kidney Research UK, this project will drive large-scale, measurable, sustainable change that reduces the burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and support understanding of the clinical cour...
A summit for safer care
Last April, at the BMJ International Quality Forum, we launched one of our most popular reports to date. It flew off our stands, all copies were gone by lunchtime on the first day and repeat ord...
A turning point for patient safety?
Fifteen years ago I was involved in developing a performance assessment framework for the NHS – an attempt to provide the public with a rounded analysis of their local NHS bodies. At the time, we w...
A whole system approach to using data to improve safety in acute mental health services
An NHS Tayside project, run in partnership with Healthcare Improvement Scotland, which will test the Safety Measurement and Monitoring within general adult acute psychiatry services. The team will ...
A&E departments are experiencing a perfect storm of factors leading to an increase in waiting times
As hospitals throughout the country increasingly fail to hit A&E targets, patients in England have been warned they could expect greater waits in emergency units. A new QualityWatch report provides...
Alf Collins: Measuring what matters to patients at the front line
Alf Collins discusses the approaches needed to measure what matters to individual patients, as opposed to measures for resource allocation, system quality or accountability.
Applying and integrating the Safety Measurement and Monitoring Framework across organisational levels
A Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust project, run in partnership with the Yorkshire and Humber Improvement Academy, which will involve working with frontline clinicians to evaluate, d...
Being sensitive to poor care
The headlines last week about the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) handling of concerns at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust have reignited the debate about how to ensure he...
Better data needed on growing part of the NHS workforce, say Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation
Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) are a growing part of the NHS workforce, accounting for over £2bn of the salary bill, yet there is remarkably little data on the contribution they make to the qua...
