Back to basics: checklists in aviation and healthcare

"Overreliance on checklists as a safety net can lead to omission of other safety practices that may better support safety through reliability and resilience. Checklists are excellent ‘aides memoire’ and directives to correct procedures, but they are not a panacea"

Back to basics: checklists in aviation and healthcare
R Clay-Williams, L Colligan
BMJ Quality and Safety 2015;24:428-431 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-003957

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Innovation in Health Care Leadership

"A growing demand for transparency has brought innovation in many areas of health care. In a video roundtable, three expert panels discuss the benefits and the challenges of these innovations, examining transparency in provider-driven quality data, in pricing, and in medical records."

Innovation in Health Care Leadership
D Blumenthal, et al.
New England Journal Medicine 2014; 371:e26 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1410441

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UK healthcare expertise collection

This is a collection of documents from Healthcare UK containing "information about the UK's different healthcare capabilities including case studies of successful overseas partnerships and projects with the UK"; including:

• Primary care: working in partnership
• Education and training in healthcare: working in partnership
• Infrastructure for health: working in partnership
• Digital health: working in partnership
• Health systems development: working in partnership
• Healthcare: public private partnerships

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Factors that prevent or enable improvements in healthcare professional practice

"Based on a systematic review and a consensus process we developed a checklist that aims to be comprehensive and to build on the strengths of each of the 12 included checklists. The checklist is accompanied with five worksheets to facilitate its use in implementation research and quality improvement projects."

A checklist for identifying determinants of practice: A systematic review and synthesis of frameworks and taxonomies of factors that prevent or enable improvements in healthcare professional practice
SA Flottorp, AD Oxman, J Krause, NR Musila, M Wensing, M Godycki-Cwirko, R Baker, MP Eccles
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:35

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Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years

"In this paper, John Appleby analyses the factors that influence the demand for health and social care, taking a long-term perspective."

Spending on health and social care over the next 50 years: why think long term?
J Appleby
The King's Fund
January 2013

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Closing the quality gap

"The overview describes the scope of the eight reports; describes the scope of the series by summarizing the quality levers, populations, interventions, outcomes, and other features across the reports; and discusses key messages by audience (patient/consumer/caregiver, health care professional, health care delivery organization, policymaker, and research community)."

Closing the quality gap: revisiting the state of the science
KA McDonald, C Chang, E Schultz
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
January 2013

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Doctors and nurses

"To improve the quality of healthcare and get better value for money from the NHS workforce, employers need the motivation and freedom to be better leaders and employers."

Doctors and nurses
T Cawston, A Haldenby, N Seddon
Reform
November 2012

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Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare

"The Health Foundation’s evaluation reports offer a rich resource of learning for those who undertake improvement work in healthcare."

Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant literature
M Dixon-Woods, S McNicol, G Martin
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2012, 21:876-884

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Health for the EU in 33 success stories

"Containing 33 selected projects from different health areas, this booklet is intended to present some meaningful results achieved by the European Union’s health programmes."

Health for the EU in 33 success stories: a selection of successful projects funded by the EU Health Programmes
European Commission
September 2012

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Health care quality for an active later life

"This report brings together recent scientific data from diverse sources to shed light on two broad questions:

1. As a country, how successful has England and the UK been in preventing later life disease and disability?
2. How well are we delivering high quality medical treatments for the common disabling diseases of later life?"

Health care quality for an active later life
D Melzer, B Tavakoly, R Winder, S Richards, C Gericke, I Lang
Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
May 2012

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Healthcare across the UK

"This report identifies key trends and variations in the delivery of healthcare across the four nations of the UK, and highlights where further examination may help determine those practices that could deliver better value for money."

Healthcare across the UK: a comparison of the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
National Audit Office
June 2012

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Uncovering middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation

"Because middle managers oversee these team initiatives, their potential to influence innovation implementation has grown."

Uncovering middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation
SA Birken, S-Y Daniel Lee, BJ Weiner
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:28

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Opening up healthcare innovation

"Innovative solutions for a 21st century healthcare system."

Opening up healthcare innovation
J Bessant, C Kunne, K Moslein
Advanced Institute of Management Research
February 2012

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Finding a balance between "value added" and feeling valued

"The ability to reach an identified target and deliver on objectives relies on the successful engagement and empowerment of front-line staff, clients and families."

Finding a balance between "value added" and feeling valued: revising models of care. The human factor or implementing a quality improvement initiative using Lean methodology within the healthcare sector
R Deans, S Wade
Healthcare Quarterly, 2011, 14(3):58-61

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Evaluating healthcare quality improvement

On the 6th June 2011, the Health Foundation hosted a roundtable event, where senior figures from the field of improvement science came together to discuss interventions to improve the quality of healthcare.

Evaluating healthcare quality improvement: a summary of learning from a Health Foundation roundtable
The Health Foundation
November 2011

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