Improving the follow-up of microbiology results

"Our intervention, the Pink Book of Results, provides a simple, cost effective system to follow-up microbiology results for discharged patients. It has been extremely well received by paediatric A&E staff and is now rolled out across the general paediatric ward and special care baby unit."

Improving the follow-up of microbiology results: the origins of the Pink Book
Henry Boyle, Charlie Hunt, Catherine McIlroy, Imran Qureshi
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2014;3: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u721.w504

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Service improvement in microbiology

"Working in partnership with the Department of Health (DH) Pathology Programme, NHS Improvement has supported a number of microbiology teams, including the eight acute Trusts in the former East Midlands SHA, to learn how Lean methodology can enable the service to achieve improvements to support the QIPP, (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) transformation programme."

Service improvement in microbiology
National Pathology Programme
NHS Improvement - Diagnostics
July 2012

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