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Drawing on interviews with NHS managers and leaders, this long read sets out insights on the role and practice of managers and the main challenges still to address.
We spoke to Dr George Findlay about how he’s using the leadership and quality improvement skills he gained from the Health Foundation’s Generation Q fellowship programme to share learning and support ...
Objectives: To determine whether team performance in a simulated emergency is related to generic teamwork skills and behaviours. Methods: Design – Cross-sectional analysis of data from the S...
Key content: The importance of guideline development. The gap between knowledge and practice. Evidence for implementation strategies. Learning objectives: To understand how simple...
Objective: To determine the bias associated with frequency of visits by physicians in adjusting for illness, using diagnoses recorded in administrative databases. Setting: Claims data from the US ...
Telehealth is heralded as a panacea to control burgeoning demand on healthcare resources and lack of streamlining in care delivery. However, evaluating the effectiveness of telehealth on health and ca...
Following the Public Enquiry into avoidable deaths and poor standards of care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, the English National Health Service (NHS) is aiming to become a system devoted ...
Background: Quality and safety improvement initiatives in healthcare often display two disconcerting effects. The first is a failure to outperform the secular trend. The second is the decline effect,...
Effective training has been shown to improve perinatal care and outcome, decrease litigation claims and reduce midwifery sick leave. To be effective, training should be incentivised, in a realistic co...
Objective: To assess the development of local clinical dashboards in line with UK national guidance and to identify ongoing issues being faced by maternity units, across an entire health region, in ...
Objective: To assess the usability of virtual-reality (VR) simulation for obstetric ultrasound trainees. Methods: Twenty-six participants were recruited: 18 obstetric ultrasound trainees (with li...
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