Patient safety research: an overview of the global evidence
Safe Patients, Smart Hospitals: How One Doctor's Checklist Can Help Us Change Health Care from the Inside Out.
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2009.
Creating champions for health care quality and safety
New Approaches to Researching Patient Safety
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland gathers the latest in quality improvement, innovation and adopted best practice. This bulletin brings you research, resources and publications from across the international improvement community. Follow our posts and keep up to date on the improvement methodologies, techniques and policies influencing your healthcare.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
New CDC Study Finds Colorectal Cancer Screening Practices Need Improvement
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Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
CRD databases - Wednesday 21 April 2010 update
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Department of Health
Inclusion Health: improving primary care for socially excluded people
The Nursing Roadmap for Quality: a signposting map for nursing
The Healthy NHS Board: Principles for Good Governance
Quality and productivity
Clinical governance and adult safeguarding: an integrated process
Making Policy Count: Developing Performance Indicators for Health and Social Care Partnerships
The Communicating Organisation: Using Communication to Support the Development of High-performing Organisations
The NHS Operating Framework for England for 2010/11
NHS 2010 - 2015: From good to Great. Preventative, People-centred, Productive
Improving Quality in Primary Care
Checklist for reporting, managing and investigating information governance serious untoward incidents
Meeting the quality and productivity challenge for the NHS in partnership
The Health and Social Care Act 2008: Code of Practice for healthcare, including primary care, and adult social care on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance - draft for consultation
Inclusion Health: improving primary care for socially excluded people
National Quality Board annual report
Improving care and saving money: learning the lessons on prevention and early intervention for older people
Making policy count: developing performance indicators for health and social care partnerships
Launch of the National Care Service
NHS continues strong performance
NHS goes Global
NHS celebrates 10 years of improvement in cardiac care
New study to drive further improvements in health care for the most vulnerable
Integrated care network to drive up quality of care
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The Nursing Roadmap for Quality: a signposting map for nursing
The Healthy NHS Board: Principles for Good Governance
Quality and productivity
Clinical governance and adult safeguarding: an integrated process
Making Policy Count: Developing Performance Indicators for Health and Social Care Partnerships
The Communicating Organisation: Using Communication to Support the Development of High-performing Organisations
The NHS Operating Framework for England for 2010/11
NHS 2010 - 2015: From good to Great. Preventative, People-centred, Productive
Improving Quality in Primary Care
Checklist for reporting, managing and investigating information governance serious untoward incidents
Meeting the quality and productivity challenge for the NHS in partnership
The Health and Social Care Act 2008: Code of Practice for healthcare, including primary care, and adult social care on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance - draft for consultation
Inclusion Health: improving primary care for socially excluded people
National Quality Board annual report
Improving care and saving money: learning the lessons on prevention and early intervention for older people
Making policy count: developing performance indicators for health and social care partnerships
Launch of the National Care Service
NHS continues strong performance
NHS goes Global
NHS celebrates 10 years of improvement in cardiac care
New study to drive further improvements in health care for the most vulnerable
Integrated care network to drive up quality of care
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Institute for Healthcare Improvement
A healthy bottom line: Healthy life expectancy as an outcome measure for health improvement efforts
The hospital standardised mortality ratio: A powerful tool for Dutch hospitals to assess their quality of care?
Nursing's role in transforming healthcare
LEAD Program Case Studies: Transforming Safety and Quality Performance
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The hospital standardised mortality ratio: A powerful tool for Dutch hospitals to assess their quality of care?
Nursing's role in transforming healthcare
LEAD Program Case Studies: Transforming Safety and Quality Performance
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Joint Commission
Joint Commission Annual Report Shows Gains in Patient Care Quality
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King's Fund
Getting the most out of PROMs: Putting health outcomes at the heart of NHS decision-making
Getting the measure of quality: opportunities and challenges
Radical changes to the delivery and commissioning of care needed, say new reports from The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust
New patient data has the power to transform health care management – new report published today
The King's Fund response to the Marmot Review of Health Inequalities
Quality measures can improve quality of care but risk misinterpretation – The King’s Fund
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Getting the measure of quality: opportunities and challenges
Radical changes to the delivery and commissioning of care needed, say new reports from The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust
New patient data has the power to transform health care management – new report published today
The King's Fund response to the Marmot Review of Health Inequalities
Quality measures can improve quality of care but risk misinterpretation – The King’s Fund
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Monitor
Compliance Framework 2010-11. The Compliance Framework sets out the approach Monitor will take to assess the compliance of NHS foundation trusts with their Terms of Authorisation.
NHS Employers
Equality and diversity - are we meeting your needs?
The health of health professionals
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The health of health professionals
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Nat.Library for Health
"The power to transform working practices and lives" - social services launch KM strategy
Improving information sharing in social services
A summary of the 2010 COSLA - IS Conference
Evaluation of ScotPHO Community Health and Wellbeing Profiles 2008
Governing health services research: is it working? (NHS Confederation)
Rising to the challenge: health priorities for government and the NHS (NHS Confederation)
Improving information sharing in social services
A summary of the 2010 COSLA - IS Conference
Evaluation of ScotPHO Community Health and Wellbeing Profiles 2008
Governing health services research: is it working? (NHS Confederation)
Rising to the challenge: health priorities for government and the NHS (NHS Confederation)
The Accreditation Mark
Guidance about compliance: Essential standards of quality and safety (CQC)
National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care
PACE: 10 lessons from the PACE programme show how success in implementing change in clinical practice can be achieved
Guidance about compliance: Essential standards of quality and safety (CQC)
National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care
PACE: 10 lessons from the PACE programme show how success in implementing change in clinical practice can be achieved
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