World Health Organisation

World health statistics 2011

[Links to external webpage]

Royal College of Nursing

RCN works with NICE on quality standards

[Links to external webpage]

NICE

New online tool brings all NICE guidance together for the first time

[Links to external webpage]

National Academies Press

Health literacy: a prescription to end confusion

[Links to external webpage]

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Child and adolescent health and healthcare quality: measuring what matters

[Links to external webpage]

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Patient and family centered care: why it matters and how to practice it (online video)

[Links to external webpage]

INAHTA

Comparison of tools for assessing the methodological quality of primary and secondary studies in health technology assessment reports

[Links to external webpage]

Healthcare Governance Review

National health service landscape review (England)

Health Matters: new directions in healthcare governance

[Links to external webpages]

Health Information and Quality Authority (Ireland)

International review of health information governance management

[Links to external webpage]

E-Watch on Innovation in Health Services

Transforming Canadian healthcare through consumer engagement: the key to quality and system innovation

Interventions encouraging the use of systematic reviews by health policy makers and managers: a systematic review

Using evidence: advances and debates in bridging health research and action

Can evidence based medicine and clinical quality improvement learn from each other?

The effectiveness of strategies to change organizational culture to improve healthcare performance: a systematic review

[Links to external webpages]

Department of Health

Allied Health Professions service improvement project

Governance arrangements for research ethics committees

Extension of mandatory surveillance to E.coli bloodstream infections – June 2011

[Links to external webpages]

Commonwealth Fund

Lessons from high and low performing states for raising overall health system performance

Interventions to reduce hospitalizations from nursing homes: evaluation of the INTERACT II collaborative quality improvement project

[Links to external webpages]

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

Engaging doctors: what can we learn from Trusts with high levels of medical engagement?

[Links to external webpages]

AHRQ

Engaging minority communities in safer healthcare

Keeping the commitment: a progress report on four early leaders in patient safety improvement

Health literacy interventions and outcomes: an updated systematic review

[Links to external webpages]

Centre for Reviews and Dissemination

CRD/NIHR announce launch of international database of registered systematic reviews (PROSPERO). PROSPERO website here.

[Links to external webpage]

Department of Health

Quality governance in the NHS: a guide for provider boards

Health is global: an outcomes framework for global health 2011-2015

Maintaining and improving quality during the transition: safety, effectiveness, experience – part 1, 2011-2012

[Links to external webpages]

E-watch on Innovation in Health Services

Future directions for the national healthcare quality and disparities reports

Research synthesis on cost drivers in the health sector and proposed policy drivers

Effective strategies for public engagement in the development of healthcare policies and programs

Creating a global health policy worthy of the name: discussion paper

To what extent to nurses use research in clinical practice? A systematic review

Healthcare technology collaboratives: filling a niche in the English R&D landscape

Uptake of newer methodological developments and the deployment of meta-analysis in diagnostic test research: a systematic review

How can we improve guideline use? A conceptual framework of implementability

United Kingdon (England) health system review

Performance measurement for health system improvement: experiences, challenges and prospects

[Links to external webpage]

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Achieving an exceptional patient and family experience of inpatient hospital care

[Links to external webpage]

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Clinical practice guidelines we can trust

Finding what works in healthcare: standards for systematic reviews

Innovations in health literacy research: workshop summary

The health of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: building a foundation for better understanding

[Links to external webpages]

King's Fund

Integrating health and social care: where next?

Improving the quality of care in general practice: report of an independent enquiry commissioned by the King’s Fund

[Links to external webpages]

NHS Education for Scotland

The development of the clinical healthcare support worker role: a review of the evidence

[Links to external webpage]

Scottish Government

Healthcare associated infection (HAI) task force report on delivery programme: 2008-2011

Scrutiny improvement: progress 3 years on from the Crerar report

[Links to external webpages]

World Health Organisation

Core competencies for patient safety research: a cornerstone for global capacity strengthening
 Core competencies to carry out patient safety research

[Links to external webpages]

AHRQ

Creating effective quality improvement collaboratives: a multiple case study

Preventing medication error: a $21 billion opportunity [Fact sheet]

The patient safety initiative at America’s public hospitals: the year one overview

[Links to external webpages]

Audit Commission

Nothing but the truth? [Data reporting in the public sector]

[Links to external webpage]

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health

The economic value of innovative health technologies: discussion paper

[Links to external webpage]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Health, United States 2010: in brief

[Links to external webpage]

Department of Health

Enabling excellence: autonomy and accountability for healthcare workers, social workers and social care workers

No health without mental health: a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages [multiple documents]

[Links to external webpages]

Remote control: the patient-practitioner relationship in a digital age

Measuring impact in health improvement: an accessible guide for health practitioners

Safer patients initiative: lessons from the first major improvement programme addressing patient safety in the UK

Planning for knowledge translation: a researcher’s guide

Methodology in conducting a systematic review of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions

What’s leadership got to do with it? Exploring links between quality improvement and leadership in the NHS

[Links to external webpages]

INAHTA

Comparison of case note review methods for evaluating quality and safety in healthcare

[Links to external webpage]

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Achieving an exceptional patient and family experience of inpatient hospital care [Free registration required]

[Links to external webpage]

National Academies Press

Digital infrastructure for the learning health system: workshop series summary [Free registration required]

Clinical data as the basic staple of health learning: a workshop summary [Free registration required]

[Links to external webpages]

NHS Education for Scotland

NES products and services database (PASDA)

[Links to external webpage]

Scottish Public Services Ombudsman

Care and compassion? Report of the health service ombudsman on ten investigations into NHS care of older people

[Links to external webpage]

Scottish Government

NHS Scotland effiency and productivity: framework for SR10, 2011-2015

A refreshed framework for maternity care in Scotland

[Links to external webpages]

World Health Organisation

Global patient safety alerts [Information sharing resource]

[Links to external webpage]

Care Quality Commission

Managing patients’ medicines after discharge from hospital

[Links to external webpage]

Centre for Health Economics

Research bulletin: increasing the productivity of the English NHS

[Links to external webpage]

Centre for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

NMC progress review: a review of the NMC’s fitness to practice directorate’s progress since 2008

[Links to external webpage]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC health disparities and inequalities report: United States 2011

[Links to external webpage]

Commonwealth Fund

State strategies to improve quality and efficiency: making the most of opportunities in national health reform

The impact of a regulatory intervention on resident-centred nursing home care: Rhode Island individualized care pilot

[Links to external webpages]

Department of Health

Health and social care bill 2010-11

Technical guidance for the 2011/12 operating framework

Extension of mandatory surveillance to Meticillin Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus (MSSA) and updated Healthcare Associated Infections clinical guidance (“HCAI Compendium”) – January 2011 [Letter]

Local involvement networks (LINks) annual reports 2009/10: commissioning, analysis and intelligence team

[Links to external webpages]

Department for Work and Pensions

Evaluation of the 50+ face to face guidance pilot

[Links to external webpage]

E-watch on Innovation in Health Services

Framework for assessing, improving and enhancing health service planning

Involving the public in healthcare policy: an update of the research evidence and proposed evaluation framework

The impact of ehealth on the quality and safety of health care: a systematic overview

Knowledge exchange processes in organizations and policy arenas: a narrative systematic review of the literature

Fidelity of implementation: development and testing of a measure

A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research

[Links to external webpages]

Health Protection Scotland

Quarterly report on the surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias in Scotland July – September 2010

Quarterly report on the surveillance of Clostridium difficile infection in Scotland July – September 2010

HAI compendium of guidance

[Links to external webpages]

Health Rights Information Scotland

PIF annual conference: meeting the challenges in health information [Conference, Birmingham]

International patients summit: treating patients as partners [Conference, Edinburgh]

[Links to external webpages]

NHS Information Centre

Mental health bulletin: fourth report from mental health minimum dataset annual returns 2010

[Links to external webpage]

Information Commissioner’s Office

Freedom of information tips for communication professionals

Opening up public bodies to public scrutiny: new plans to extend the scope of the Freedom of Information Act

[Links to external webpages]

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Improvement skills to empower front-line nurses [Audio conference]

[Links to external webpage]

King's Fund

How do quality accounts measure up? Findings from the first year

[Links to external webpage]

National Academies Press

What you need to know about infectious disease

[Links to external webpage]

National Audit Office

National Health Service (England) landscape review

[Links to external webpage]

NHS Litigation Authority

NHSLA risk management standards for NHS Trusts providing acute, community or mental health and learning disability services and independent sector providers of NHS Care

[Links to external webpage]

OECD

Health at a glance: Europe 2010

[Links to external webpage]

Patient's Association

Public attitudes to pain

[Links to external webpage]

Royal College of Nursing

Finding, using and managing information: nursing, midwifery, health and social care information literacy competencies

[Links to external webpage]

Scottish Government

Early years framework: progress so far

A refreshed framework for maternity care in Scotland

[Links to external webpages]

Scottish Public Services Ombudsman

Statement of complaints handling procedures

[Links to external webpage]

AHRQ

Hand hygiene project: best practices from hospitals participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare project

Learning to use patient stories

Patient safety executive development program [conference]

[Links to external webpages]

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare

Patient-centered care: improving quality and safety by focusing care on patients and consumers

Windows into safety and quality in healthcare 2010

[Links to external webpages]

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health

The Rx for Change database: a first-in-class tool for optimal prescribing and medicines use [article]

Canadian Patient Safety Institute

Patient safety in primary care

[Links to external webpage]

Care Commission

Regulating care in Scotland from April 2011: what the changeover means for care service providers [leaflet]

Mental welfare commission annual report 2009-10

[Links to external webpages]

Centre for Health Economics

Budget allocation and the revealed social rate of time preference for health

[Links to external webpage]

Dr Foster

The intelligent board 2010: patient experience

[Links to external webpage]

Department of Health

The NHS outcomes framework 2011/12

The operating framework for the NHS in England 2011/12

Liberating the NHS: legislative framework and next steps

Healthy lives, healthy people: our strategy for public health in England

[Links to external webpages]

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control,

Developing health communication research: a focus on communicable diseases - challenges and opportunities

Annual epidemiological report on communicable diseases in Europe 2009

[Links to external webpages]

E-Watch on Innovation in Health Services,

Health policy analysis: a tool to evaluate in policy documents the alignment between policy statements and intended outcomes

Bridging the gap: knowledge translation in Alberta

A guidebook to patient safety leadinig practices 2010

The impact of health technology assessments: an international comparison

Performance audit handbook: routes to effective evaluation

Knowledge translation in healthcare: a review of the literature

[Links to external webpages]

Health Information and Quality Authority (Ireland),

Guidelines for the budget impact analysis of health technology impact

[Links to external webpage]

Health Professions Council

In focus: Health Professionals Council newsletter issue 32

[Links to external webpage]

Health Survey for England

Health Survey for England: 2009 trend tables

Health Survey for England: 2009 health and lifestyles

[Links to external webpages]

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Self-management and patient engagement: an opportunity to maximize outcomes [web course, Feb 2011

Getting started in video ethnography: a catalyst for guiding and motivating quality improvement [toolkit]

The Pursuing Perfection Initiative: lessons on transforming healthcare [free registration required]

[Links to external webpages]

Institute for Health Economics

Prioritizing methodological research in the evaluation of health technologies in Canada: forum summary

[Links to external webpage]

King's Fund

Mental health and the productivity challenge: improving quality and value for money

[Links to external webpage]

MHRA

MHRA communication strategy 2010-2015

[Links to external webpage]

National Academies Press

Digital infrastructure for the learning health system: workshop summary [free registration required]

For the public’s health: the role of measurement in action and accountability [free registration required]

[Links to external webpages]

National Audit Office

Management of NHS hospital productivity

[Links to external webpage]

NHS Confederation

Liberating the NHS? Analysis and questions on the white paper

[Links to external webpage]

National Patient Safety Agency

Back on track framework for further training: restoring practitioners to safe and valued practice

[Links to external webpage]

NHS Litigation Authority

Risk e-news [newsletter]http://www.nhsla.com/NR/rdonlyres/6549BD0B-1C22-4091-B9BE-1CEA4FA171C9/0/Issue1.pdf

[Links to external webpage]

OECD

Health at a Glance: Europe 2010

[Links to external webpage]

Royal College of Nursing

Principles of nursing practice [resource]

[Links to external webpage]

Scottish Government

Annual report of the Chief Medical Officer 2010

[Links to external webpage]

Scottish Public Health Observatory

Knowledge, attitudes and motivations to health

[Links to external webpage]

World Health Organisation

Health systems financing: the path to universal coverage

New scientific evidence supports WHO findings: a surgical safety checklist could save hundreds of thousands of lives [news]

[Links to external webpages]