Developing collective leadership for health care

"Collective leadership cultures are characterised by all staff focusing on continual learning and, through this, on the improvement of patient care. It requires high levels of dialogue, debate and discussion to achieve shared understanding about quality problems and solutions."

Developing collective leadership for health care
M West, K Steward, R Eckert, B Pasmore
The King's Fund, Center for Creative Leadership
May 2014

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Best BMJ Quality & Safety articles 2013

"This special collection reflects the depth and breadth of content from BMJ Quality & Safety, which encourages innovation and creative thinking to improve the quality of health care and the science of improvement."

Articles included in the collection are:

• Identification of doctors at risk of recurrent complaints: a national study of healthcare complaints in Australia
• The global burden of unsafe medical care: analytic modelling of observational studies
• Systematic review of the application of the plan–do–study–act method to improve quality in healthcare
• Assessing adverse events among home care clients in three Canadian provinces using chart review
• 'Care left undone’ during nursing shifts: associations with workload and perceived quality of care
• Allocating scarce resources in real-time to reduce heart failure admissions: a prospective, controlled study
• Culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service: overview of lessons from a large
  multimethod study

BMJ Quality & Safety: A collection of key articles
The Health foundation

April 2014

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Learning communities and the skills needed to improve care

"Part of the reason why quality improvement is so hard to achieve may be that those involved in leading QI programmes need to deploy three different but interrelated types of improvement skills: technical, soft and learning skills. A lack of skills in one area will constrain progress, irrespective of the team’s strengths in other skill areas."

Skilled for improvement? Learning communities and the skills needed to improve care: an evaluative service development
J Gabbay, A le May, C Connell, JH Klein
The Health Foundation
March 2014

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Medical revalidation: From compliance to commitment

"Medical revalidation, with the right conditions, can be a valuable driver of behaviours and cultures that support sustained quality improvement. The time to develop those conditions is now. Above all, leaders should bear in mind that large-scale change requires them to have the tenacity and vision to create a process that is valued by all who are involved in it." 

Medical revalidation: From compliance to commitment
V Nath, B Seale, M Kaur
The Kings's Fund
March 2014

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