Measuring and monitoring safety: an acute care perspective
Dr Carol Peden offers reflections on the measurement and monitoring of safety from the perspective of a practising clinician based at a busy district general hospital.
Dr Carol Peden offers reflections on the measurement and monitoring of safety from the perspective of a practising clinician based at a busy district general hospital.
Jane O’Hara and Ruthe Isden consider the role of patients and citizens in the identification of risk and the measurement and monitoring of safety within health care.
This paper forms part of a programme of work we are undertaking to help answer the question: 'How do we know care is safe?'
This paper forms part of a programme of work we are undertaking to help answer the question 'How do we know care is safe?'
This evidence scan compiles examples, from published empirical research, of strategies used to help improve patient flow across organisations or pathways of care.
This report introduces an approach – the clinical community – to support and secure improvements in health systems across multiple sites.
The focus of this briefing is on bridging the gap between the actions set out by the government in Hard Truths and their practical application by people working in the service.
This report from our QualityWatch programme, in partnership with the Nuffield Trust, examines changes over the last decade in the distance travelled from home to receive emergency care.
Successes and lessons from the first two rounds of the Health Foundation’s Shine programme: annual awards to test small-scale innovative interventions that aim to improve health care services.
This thought paper is the result of a week-long study tour to India, facilitated by the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery.