Constructive comfort: accelerating change in the NHS

"To achieve change at the pace and scale now needed in the NHS requires much careful thinking about the mechanisms employed to effect change. In this report we have focused how best to design national policy on the NHS to accelerate improvements to health care."

Constructive comfort: accelerating change in the NHS 
C Allcock, F Dormon, R Taunt, J Dixon
February 2015

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Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection

"Urinary catheter reminders and stop orders appear to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates and should be used to improve patient safety. Several evidence-based guidelines have evaluated CAUTI preventive strategies as well as emerging evidence regarding intervention bundles. Implementation strategies are important because reducing urinary catheter use involves changing well-established habits."

Reducing unnecessary urinary catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection: an integrative review
J Meddings, MAM Rogers, SL Krein, MG Fakih, RN Olmsted, S Saint
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014, 23 (4) 277–289

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Application of the plan–do–study–act method to improve quality in healthcare

"There is varied application and reporting of plan-do-study-act cycles and lack of compliance with the principles that underpin its design as a pragmatic scientific method. The varied practice compromises its effectiveness as a method for improvement and cautions against studies that view quality improvement or PDSA as a ‘black box’ intervention."

Systematic review of the application of the plan–do–study–act method to improve quality in healthcare
MJ Taylor, C McNicholas, C Nicolay, A Darzi, D Bell, JE Reed
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014; 23(4): 290-298

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Transforming local care

"This Briefing shows how the community health sector is driving the transformation of local care systems and how innovative community healthcare providers are enabling people to stay healthy and independent and avoid crises that lead to unplanned hospital admissions."

Transforming local care
NHS Confederation
March 2013 Issue 258

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