Quality improvement Improving quality in health care is about making it safe, effective, patient-centred, timely, efficient and equitable
We think of quality improvement as a systematic approach that uses specific techniques to improve quality in health and health care.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
Research report
Quality improvement in general practice: what do GPs and practice managers think?
Our research shows that most GPs and Practice Managers see quality improvement as a core aspect of...
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Quality improvement made simple
This guide focuses on one important element of the quality agenda: quality improvement. It looks in particular at what are known as organisational or industrial approaches to quality improvement.
Webinar: The NHS as an anchor
This webinar expands upon the findings of our recent report 'Building healthier communities: the role of the NHS as an anchor institution'.
Making FREED (First episode Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders) a national and international model
This project will continue the successful scale up of the FREED (First episode Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders) programme, which has been shown to reduce treatment waiting times and the ...
New opportunity to improve health care through collaborative communities
A new £2.1m programme for partnerships developing collaborative communities where people, families, health care professionals and researchers work together to improve health care.
Saving lives through safer hip fracture care
Aiming to save lives and secure greater independence for hip fracture patients.
OASI2 Care Bundle
OASI2 is a project that will further investigate the mechanisms and strategies that support the sustainability and spread of the OASI Care Bundle, a quality improvement project implemented across 16 U...
Citizens Advice Ways to Wellbeing for All
This project will involve scaling up the Liverpool APP approach, which provides a social treatment option for primary care teams to address underlying causes of ill health, for example financial hards...
Scale, spread and embed
This three-year project will test and evaluate the scalability of using natural language processing to analyse patient feedback and provide information to point-of-care staff and quality improvement l...
Quality improvement in general practice: what do GPs and practice managers think?
Our research shows that most GPs and Practice Managers see quality improvement as a core aspect of their work.
Improving continuity of care in general practice: four lessons from the frontline
How can general practices balance continuity of care with the need to see a GP promptly? Angus Wiltshire explores four early findings from the Increasing Continuity of Care in General Practice program...
The measurement maze
Our briefing suggests there's potential to make better use of quality measurement to improve quality of care.
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