QualityWatch: Focus on preventable admissions
This QualityWatch report explores patterns of emergency admissions across England for people with ambulatory care sensitive conditions.
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QualityWatch: Focus on hip fracture
This QualityWatch report explores the quality of care and outcomes of treatment for hip fracture, drawing on 10 years of hospital inpatient activity data.
Measuring and monitoring safety: a primary care perspective
Professor Aneez Esmail discusses the measurement and monitoring of safety from the perspective of primary care.
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.
Identifying risks and monitoring safety
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.
Asymmetry of influence
This paper forms part of a programme of work we are undertaking to help answer the question: 'How do we know care is safe?'
Taking safety on board
This paper forms part of a programme of work we are undertaking to help answer the question 'How do we know care is safe?'
Improving patient flow across organisations and pathways
This evidence scan compiles examples, from published empirical research, of strategies used to help improve patient flow across organisations or pathways of care.
Using clinical communities to improve quality
This report introduces an approach – the clinical community – to support and secure improvements in health systems across multiple sites.
Hard truths: essential actions
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.
