Reducing harm to patients
This briefing follows a March 2014 speech by the Secretary of State for Health at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, in which he set out a new ambition to reduce avoidable harm to patients in t...
This briefing follows a March 2014 speech by the Secretary of State for Health at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, in which he set out a new ambition to reduce avoidable harm to patients in t...
This is a special collection of the best articles published in BMJ Quality & Safety in 2013.
This report assesses the performance of the NHS on the quality of patient care in all four UK countries since devolution.
This guide aims to support NHS organisations to apply a framework for measuring and monitoring safety.
The principles of person-centred care, activities that a person-centred system should undertake in different contexts, and how to construct measurement systems for use in these contexts.
This evidence scan provides examples from the published empirical literature of techniques for spreading innovation and improvement.
This report from our QualityWatch programme, in partnership with the Nuffield Trust, examines the trends in antidepressant prescribing in English primary care from 1998 to 2012.
An evaluation report of our Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships programme by the Office for Public Management (OPM).
This scan compiles research about whether quality improvement collaboratives are effective.
This report from our QualityWatch programme looks at patterns of A&E activity, the nature of the increased demand and what has driven waiting times upwards.