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]

AHRQ

National voluntary consensus standards for patient safety measures: first report

Patient safety framework for Albertans

[Links to external webpages]

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare

Australian guidelines for the prevention and control of infection in healthcare

[Links to external webpage]

Care Commission

Equality Act starter kit [Toolkit]

[Links to external webpage]

Centre for Health Economics

Regional variation in the productivity of the English national health service

[Links to external webpage]

Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

Right-touch regulation

[Links to external webpage]

Department of Health

Mortality monitoring bulletin: update to include data for 2009

Expanding the list of ‘never events’: policy proposals for engagement

Liberating the NHS: an information revolution [Consultation]

[Links to external webpages]

E-watch on Innovation in Health Services

Innovation takes leadership: opportunities and challenges for Canada’s health care system

Enhancing the benefits from biomedical and health research spillovers between public, private and charitable sectors in the UK

Ivey Centre for Innovation and Leadership [Website]

A critical synthesis of literature on the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework

[Links to external webpages]

Health Foundation

Health Foundation response to Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS

[Links to external webpage]

Information Commissioner's Office

Data sharing code of practice: consultation paper

[Links to external webpage]

NHS Information Centre

Quality and Outcomes Framework exception reporting 2009/10 [Website]

[Links to external webpage]

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

An introduction to the IHI improvement map [Video clip]

[Links to external webpage]

NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Evaluation of the leadership qualities framework 360 review process

[Links to external webpage]

King's Fund

Quality improvement in general practice [Discussion paper]

How to deliver high quality, patient-centred, cost-effective care: consensus solutions from the voluntary sector

[Links to external webpages]

MHRA

Review of medicines legislation: informal consultation on the Medicines Act 1968 exemptions for sale, supply and administration of medicines

[Links to external webpage]

National Academies Press

Public health effectiveness of the FDA 510(k) clearance process: balancing patient safety and innovation [Workshop report]

[Links to external webpage]

NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme

Dissemination and publication of research findings: an updated review of related biases

[Links to external webpage]

NPSA

Never events annual report 2009/10

Never events framework update 2010/11

[Links to external webpages]

OECD

Health: improving healthcare is vital for long-term growth [News item]

[Links to external webpage]

Scottish Government

Long-term monitoring of health inequalities: headline indicators

Scotland’s national dementia strategy

[Links to external webpages]

Scottish Public Health Observatory

Know, feel, do? Health behavior change in Scotland 1996-2007

[Links to external webpage]

World Health Organisation

mhGAP intervention guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized healthcare settings

[Links to external webpage]

Other

Clinical negligence annual review 2009

[Links to external webpage]

AHRQ

Improving America’s hospitals: the Joint Comissions annual report on quality and safety 2010

Industrial and systems engineering and health care: critical areas of research: final report

[Links to external webpages]

Care Commission

Mental health collaborative programme newsletter (summer 2010)

[Links to external webpage]

Centre for Health Economics

Workshop in methods of economic evaluation in public health: presentations

[Links to external webpage]

Department of Health

Essence of care 2010

Quality outcomes for people with dementia: building on the work of the National Dementia Strategy

Getting it right for children and young people: overcoming cultural barriers in the NHS so as to meet their needs

[Links to external webpages]

Department for Work and Pensions

Publication of DWP research report 693: partnerships with local authorities and health agencies

[Links to external webpage]

E-watch on Innovation in Health Sciences

Expediting systematic reviews: methods and implications of rapid reviews

Using common work environment metrics to improve performance in healthcare organizations

Reducing the use of ineffective health care interventions

Alberta’s health research and innovation strategy

Key factors influencing adoption of an innovation in primary health care: a qualitative study based on implementation theory

Healthcare improvement and innovation resource centre

Scoping studies: advancing the methodology

[Links to external webpages]

Health Information and Quality Authority (Ireland)

Guidance on developing key performance indicators and minimum data sets to monitor healthcare quality

[Links to external webpage]

Health Protection Scotland

Compliance with hand hygiene: audit report (9th bi-monthly audit)

Quarterly report on the surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias in Scotland, April – June 2010

Quarterly report on the surveillance of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in Scotland, April – June 2010

[Links to external webpages]

Institute for Healthcare Improvement

The pursuit of genuine partnerships with patients and family members: the challenge and opportunity for executive leaders

Options for large-scale spread of simple, high-impact interventions

[Links to external webpages]

Irish Soc. for Quality and Safety in Healthcare,

Health matters: national staff magazine of the health service executive (spring 2010)

[Links to external webpage]

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Equality and diversity and older people with high support needs

[Links to external webpage]

King's Fund

A high performing NHS? A review of progress 1997-2010

[Links to external webpages]

National Academies Press

The future of nursing: leading change, advancing health (Free to download)

Redesigning the clinical effectiveness research paradigm: innovation and practice-based approaches: workshop summary (Free to download)

[Links to external webpages]

National Patient Safety Foundation

Unmet needs: teaching physicians to provide safe patient care

[Links to external webpage]