April 2025 QI Evidence Update

Welcome to the April 2025 QI Evidence Update — your go-to monthly summary of the latest quality improvement research, evidence, tools, and events—all from the past month and condensed into just 2 pages for easy reference.

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• Save Time: Skip the hours of searching with a concise, expertly curated summary of the most relevant QI resources.

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• Enhance Your Work: Use the latest evidence and research to inspire, inform, and strengthen your QI initiatives.

  
  

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1.   Quality Improvement

• Continuous quality improvement across a South Australian health service and the role it plays in a learning health system: a qualitative study (BMC Health Services Research, March 2025)

• Integrating patient and public involvement into co-design of healthcare improvement: a case study in maternity care (BMC Health Services Research, March 2025)

• Economic case for reducing inequities in patient safety (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Improving capacity and flow in a children and young peoples Community Eating Disorder Service (CEDS): how a quality improvement initiative led to a reduction in waiting times in the service (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Improving the quality of care for preterm infants in the golden hour (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Increasing clinical recruitment rate to a single-site observational study: a quality improvement study (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Increasing take-home naloxone kit distribution to patients with substance use disorder before hospital discharge: a quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Initiative to improve oxygen prescribing and oxygen delivery to patients in the emergency department of a national referral hospital (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• 'Mondays feel calmer when creative practitioners are here: a quality improvement project exploring whether creative-practitioner sessions on adult inpatient mental-health wards reduce levels of violence and aggression (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Reducing laboratory delays in blood culture pathogen identification: a quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Same-day discharge pathway for elective total hip and knee arthroplasty patients: a quality improvement project at a Canadian community hospital (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Service-level interventions to reduce waiting time in outpatient and community health settings may be sustained: a systematic review (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Using quality improvement methodology to reduce Did Not Attends in healthcare within a UK prison (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Validation and application of a tool to assess self-confidence to do improvement (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Using data science to improve patient care: rethinking clinician responsibility - editorial (BMJ Quality and Safety, March 2025)

• Transparency and accountability in healthcare: bridging antiracism and quality improvement to advance health equity (Critical Public Health, March 2025)

• Situational Analysis of European and International Oral Health Policy Making for Quality Improvement (European and International Oral Health Policy Making, March 2025)

• Reporting feedback on healthcare outcomes to improve quality in care: a scoping review (Implementation Science, March 2025)

• The Development of Quality Improvement Education Program of the National Cancer Grid – EQuIP- India (Enable Quality Improve Patient Care), and Its Impact on the Quality of Cancer Care in India (Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology, March 2025)

• Environmental Impact and Provider Satisfaction Associated with ePrescriptions in Otolaryngology: A Quality Improvement Study (Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, March 2025)

• Reducing Fasting Time Before Anesthesia for Pediatric Bronchoscopy: A Quality Improvement Project (Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, March 2025)

• Quality improvement initiative to decrease severe intraventricular hemorrhage rates in preterm infants by implementation of a care bundle (Journal of Perinatology, March 2025)

• NHS England’s management of elective care transformation programmes (National Audit Office, March 2025)

• PODCAST: Learning from failure in healthcare (THIS Institute, March 2025)

2.   Integrated care & strategy

• Can the government achieve its 18-week elective waiting time target? (IFS, March 2025)

• What should national policy-makers do to make care closer to home a reality? (Kings Fund, March 2025)

• Pioneers of reform: realising a new vision of ICB strategic commissioning (NHS Confederation, March 2025)

• Abolishing NHS England: what you need to know (NHS Confederation, March 2025)

• Impacts and benefits of provider collaboration at scale (NHS Providers, March 2025)

• Health in the UK after Brexit: moving apart or stuck together? (Nuffield Trust, March 2025)

• A framework for the safe, efficient and effective implementation, use and maintenance of AI in health and care in London (One London, March 2025)

• Designing a neighbourhood health service (Reform, March 2025)

• Preparing the NHS for the AI era: why smarter triage and navigation mean better health care (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, March 2025)

3.   Patients & people

• Feedback from bereaved relatives via Medical Examiners: what kinds of concerns are raised? (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Leveraging principles of behavioural economics to encourage patient engagement with population health screening programmes (BMJ Open Quality, March 2025)

• Evaluation of the Patient Innovation Partner Role: Perceived Benefits, Structures, Supports, and Recommendations for Lived Experience Engagement in Healthcare Innovation Teams (Health Expectations, March 2025)

• A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Negative Patient Experiences in Emergency Department Care: Identifying Challenges and Evidence-Informed Strategies Across the Care Continuum (Journal of Patient Experience, March 2025)

• Validation of the Patient Experience Assessment of In-Center Hemodialysis (PEACHD) Survey (Journal of Patient Experience, March 2025)

• Delivery of patient letters: an opportunity to improve patient access and productivity (NHS Providers, March 2025)

• Patient experience and trust in NHS primary care (NHS Race & Health Observatory, March 2025)

4.   Events

• NHS Impact Lunch & Learn: Medical consultant job planning 24 April 2025, 1:00

• Rapid Evaluation in Health Care 2025 Nuffield Trust / Health Foundation, London 14 May 2025

• NHS Impact Masterclass: Leadership for improvement 19 May 2025, 3:30

• NHS ConfedExpo 2025, Manchester Central 11-12 June 2025

• NHS Impact Masterclass: Tools to understand an improvement opportunity 13 June 2025, 11:00

• NHS Impact Masterclass: Mastering the PDSA cycle 15 July 2025, 10:00

• In conversation with the National Improvement Board 26 June 2025, 9:30-11:00

• THIS Space 2025 25 November 2025, 10:00

• In conversation with the National Improvement Board 27 November 2025 9:30-11:00