Improving acute psychiatric care for adults in England

"The Commission’s starting point is that patients with mental health problems should have the same rapid access to high quality care as patients with physical health problems. It proposes the introduction of firm targets for improvement combined with new approaches to quality, data management, innovation and investment."

Old problems, New solutions: Improving acute psychiatric care for adults in England
The Independent Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care
February 2016

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A patient-initiated voluntary online survey of adverse medical events

"This large voluntary survey of medical harm highlights the potential efficacy of patient-initiated surveys for providing meaningful feedback and for guiding improvements in patient care."

A patient-initiated voluntary online survey of adverse medical events: the perspective of 696 injured patients and families
FS Southwick, NM Cranley, JA Hallisy
BMJ Quality and Safety 2015;24:620-629 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-003980

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Using technology to improve delivery of health and care services (speech)

"Life sciences minister George Freeman on how integrated data and technology can improve the delivery of effective health and care services."

Using technology to improve delivery of health and care services (speech)
Department of Health, National Information Board, Office for Life Sciences and George Freeman MP
Delivered on: 3 September 2015

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Using FRAM to align work-as-imagined with work-as-done when implementing clinical guidelines

"Using FRAM to reconcile differences between work-as-imagined and work-as-done when implementing a guideline can reduce the need for clinicians to adjust performance and create workarounds, which may be detrimental to both safety and quality, once the guideline is introduced."

Where the rubber meets the road: using FRAM to align work-as-imagined with work-as-done when implementing clinical guidelines

Robyn Clay-Williams, J Hounsgaard, E Hollnage
Implementation Science 2015, 10:125  doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0317-y

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Using Incentives To Improve Experience In Maternity, Children And Young People's Services

"The report will discuss three core recommendations, each with a number of sub-recommendations to support local, regional and national discussions on how CQUINs and other financial incentive schemes can be used to improve the quality and effectiveness of maternity, children and young people’s services." 

Using Incentives To Improve Experience In Maternity, Children And Young People's Services
P Kumalo, M Cunnington
NHS South East CSU
July 2015

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“Conversation Ready”: A Framework for Improving End-of-Life Care

"This white paper describes the Conversation Ready framework, the changes associated with the framework’s five principles that can be implemented to improve end-of-life care, examples of changes tested by organizations, and suggested measures to guide improvement."

“Conversation Ready”: A Framework for Improving End-of-Life Care (IHI White Paper)
K McCutcheon Adams, A Kabcenell, K Little, L Sokol-Hessner
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
June 2015

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Improving evidence-based management of irritable bowel syndrome across Somerset

"By identifying cost savings from reducing referrals to secondary care for patients of 16-45 years old with no red flag symptoms and likely IBS, and limiting investigations to those with a likely inflammatory pathology, we were able to fund faecal calprotectin testing for general practice and a specialist dietetic-led gastroenterology clinic"

Improving evidence-based management of irritable bowel syndrome across Somerset
Somerset Gastroenterology Flexible Healthcare Team
NICE Shared Learning example
June 2015

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Sexual health commissioning in local government

"This resource describes how public health in a number of councils has started to build on the opportunities of a local government setting to improve sexual health and wellbeing. The case studies were chosen because they show a range of ways in which public health in councils is approaching the commissioning of sexual health services."

Sexual health commissioning in local government: building strong relationships, meeting local needs
Local Government Association
June 2015

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Improving Care for Chronic Conditions

"The goal of this project is to document the current range of chronic care management services, identify best practices, and elicit industry trends. We also attempt to identify factors in the plans’ operating environment that limit their ability to optimize chronic care programs."

Improving Care for Chronic Conditions: Current Practices and Future Trends in Health Plan Programs
S Mattke, T Mengistu, L Klautzer, EM Sloss, RH Brook
RAND Corporation
2015

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London Leadership Academy: Providing the time and space for future success

"As a pan-London NHS leadership development organisation we have access to a wealth of health care leaders and leadership experience. This creates plenty of opportunities to bring the London leadership community together to learn new skills, create connections, build networks and deliver the best possible care to patients and service users."

Providing the time and space for future success
NHS London Leadership Academy
April 2015

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The Managers and Management We Need to Improve Care (audio recording)

"what middle managers do, now, on behalf of quality improvement – and what they could do more of, if their contributions and unique positioning in the organization were better utilized and understood. Especially when it comes to making improvement endeavors operational and sustainable."

WIHI: The Managers and Management We Need to Improve Care (audio recording)
D Munch, S Calcasola, K Mate
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
March 2015

Listen to the audio recording here.

Improving quality of life for people with dementia and their carers through impact investment

"The development of products and services to tackle dementia needs more proactive support from government, policymakers, charities and healthcare professionals"

Remember me: Improving quality of life for people with dementia and their carers through impact investment 
E Ní Ógáin, K Mountain

Nesta
March 2015

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Compliance of monitoring side effects of medication in the treatment of ADHD

"The audit was carried out to determine compliance of monitoring side effects of medication in the treatment of ADHD/ADD in children and young people as recommended by NICE Clinical Guideline 72. The audit was deemed necessary to provide a basis on which to carry out future audits and to improve the service."

To determine compliance of monitoring side effects of medication in the treatment of ADHD in children and young people as recommended by NICE CG72
NICE Shared Learning example
South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
March 2015

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The future is now: The innovations of today that point to better health care tomorrow

"Uncertainty and unpredictability will be an intrinsic part of the challenges facing our future health service. New technology will undoubtedly change the way we approach health and care – it already is. But as well as the gadgets we use, change will be as much about different ways of working and relating to each other."

The future is now: The innovations of today that point to better health care tomorrow
C Ham, A Brown
The King's Fund
February 2015

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Implementation of a ward round pro-forma to improve adherence to best practice guidelines

"This study has two main aims. Firstly, to measure the adherence to specific best practice guidelines for the prevention hospital acquired causes of mortality and morbidity (HACMMs) by doctors on a medical assessment unit in regional teaching hospital. Secondly, to measure the effectiveness of the study’s interventional checklist (the ward round pro-forma) on rates of adherence to best practice guidelines."

Implementation of a ward round pro-forma to improve adherence to best practice guidelines
X Boland
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u207456.w2979

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Personalised Care & Support Planning Handbook

"The handbook is aimed at commissioners and care practitioners (i.e. not just health and care professionals, but also other non-clinical and volunteer roles), and is intended to set out what personalised care and support planning is, and how to deliver it. It will show how personalised care and support planning fits within the wider context of person-centred care and can be used as a system enabler to help provide more proactive and coordinated care for people with long-term conditions and better support for self-management."

NHS England: Personalised Care & Support Planning Handbook
Coalition for Collaborative Care, NHS England
January 2015

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Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients

"Attempting to improve a physician’s productivity by placing arbitrary limits on length of appointments or setting high targets for the numbers of patients that he or she should see each day lowers costs at the front end of a care cycle. But they incur much higher costs later in the cycle when preventable complications are treated in emergency rooms and intensive care units."

Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients
DA Haas, YC Krosner, N Mukerji, RS Kaplan
Harvard Business Review
December 2014

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Sheffield's Heart Failure MDT (Outreach service into non-cardiology wards)

"Delivering a cardiac outreach service requires perseverance and consistent hard work, made worthwhile by demonstrable improvements in patients outcomes."

Sheffield's Heart Failure MDT (Outreach service into non-cardiology wards)
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
NICE Local Practice Collection
November 2014

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Coalition for collaborative care: action for long-term conditions

"The Coalition brings together a growing number of people and organisations. These include those wanting to introduce person-centred, collaborative care to their lives and work, as well as those responsible for NHS delivery and development at a national level."

Visit the Coalition for collaborative care website to find out more.

Changes in costs and effects after the implementation of disease management programs

"After one year we have found indications of improvements in level of integrated care for cardiovascular risk  patients and lifestyle indicators for all diseases, but in none of the diseases we have found indications of cost savings due to disease management programs. However, it is likely that it takes more time before the improvements in care lead to reductions in complications and hospitalizations."

Changes in costs and effects after the implementation of disease management programs in the Netherlands: variability and determinants
A Tsiachristas, J Murray Cramm, AP Nieboer, MPMH Rutten-van Mölken
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2014, 12:17

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