Building Q: Learning from designing a large scale improvement community

"The report identifies lessons for anyone seeking to support improvement work across organisations or through networks, as well as those engaged in designing initiatives with many diverse stakeholders. It draws on a variety of sources including the independent real-time evaluation of Q undertaken by RAND Europe."

Building Q: Learning from designing a large scale improvement community
P Pereira, H O'Malley
The Health Foundation
May 2016

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Atrial fibrillation care improvement collaborative

"Interdepartmental collaboration and care standardization offer opportunities to improve quality of care and reduce costs for patients with atrial fibrillation. These patients are able to avoid inpatient hospitalization, benefit from a new anticoagulation option, and follow up more closely with their primary care providers in order to address long term care plans."

 Atrial fibrillation care improvement collaborative
P Robelia, S Kopecky, T Thacher
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports, 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u208947.w3629

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Identification of promising strategies to sustain improvements in hospital practice

"Joining a quality improvement collaborative may not be enough to achieve long-term normalisation of transformed care, and additional investments may be needed. The findings suggest that certain post-implementation strategies are valuable in sustaining implementation successes achieved after joining a quality improvement collaborative."

Identification of promising strategies to sustain improvements in hospital practice: a qualitative case study
SMC Ament, F Gillissen, A Moser, JMC Maessen, CD Dirksen, MF von Meyenfeldt, T van der Weijden
BMC Health Service Research, 2014; 14(1): 641. doi:  10.1186/s12913-014-0641-y

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5000 safety fellows initiative

"Together with NHS England, we are working to develop an ambitious initiative that will connect and support people with safety and wider quality improvement expertise across the UK.
The initiative will help share effective improvement ideas throughout the health care system
We are working with organisations connected to those at the forefront of safety and quality improvement to launch the initiative in early 2015."

5000 safety fellows initiative

The Health Foundation
December 2014

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Improvement collaboratives in health care

"This scan suggests that collaboratives may have some potential to support improvements in the quality of health care but, like most initiatives, they are not a ‘silver bullet’ and cannot be relied upon in isolation to spread broad change." 

Improvement collaboratives in health care: Evidence scan
The Health Foundation
July 2014

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Positive Cardiometabolic Health Resource

"This clinical resource supports the implementation of the physical health CQUIN http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sc-cquin-guid.pdf which aims to improve collaborative and effective physical health monitoring of patients experiencing Serious Mental Illness. It focusses on antipsychotic medication for adults"

Positive Cardiometabolic Health Resource: an intervention framework for people experiencing psychosis and schizophrenia
DE Shiers, I Rafi, SJ Cooper, RIG Holt
Royal College of Psychiatrists
2014 update

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Did a quality improvement collaborative make stroke care better?

"Some aspects of stroke care improved during the quality improvement collaborative, but the effects of the quality improvement collaborative were modest and further improvement is needed." 

Did a quality improvement collaborative make stroke care better? A cluster randomized trial
M Power, PJ Tyrrell, AG Rudd, MP Tully, D Dalton, M Marshall, I Chappell, D Corgié, D Goldmann, D Webb, M Dixon-Woods, G Parry
Implementation Science, 2014, 9: 40

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