Bridging the quality gap: Heart failure
A review of existing heart failure care, assessing quality in six domains: effectiveness, access and timeliness, capacity, safety, patient-centredness and equity.
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Five principles for implementing the NHS Impact approach to improvement in England
To support the implementation of the new NHS Impact approach to improvement, this long read sets out five guiding principles and some recommendations.
Global trigger tools
Signposts the published evidence about the benefits and challenges of global trigger tools, which help identify adverse evects and areas for improvement by regularly auditing patient notes
Evidence: How safe are clinical systems?
Primary research into the reliability of systems within seven NHS organisations and ideas for improvement
The patient will see you now
How changing the interaction between patients and service providers can be a driver for improving quality
Implementing shared decision making in the UK
This report explores how shared decision making can be embedded into clinical practice as a core part of mainstream health services.
Can automation help with growing dissatisfaction among GPs?
Justine Karpusheff explores common themes emerging from Health Foundation funded research linked to automation and primary care.
The Francis Inquiry and an international picture of safety
For the World Health Organization (WHO), the Francis Inquiry report into very poor standards of care in a hospital in the NHS represents, at one level, a domestic response to a domestic issue in one o...
Something for healthcare which is uplifting, inspiring, scientific and relevant to you all
Francis has presented an amazing opportunity for healthcare, if people are able to grasp it. Looking from just over the fence has allowed me to observe behaviours, especially over the last few weeks, ...
Congestion and safety: home thoughts from abroad
The news for UK hospitals, those they treat and those who work in them, seems grim. Hospital doctors, nurses and Royal Colleges note that hospitals are at bursting point. Robert Francis was concerned ...
