August 2021 QI Evidence Update

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This post contains all of the articles in the August 2021 QI Evidence Update. These are searchable using the search bar.

Improvement 

• Junior doctor-led quality improvement project to improve safety and visibility of an interspecialty referral system (BMJ Open Quality, July 2021)

• Scoping review of balanced scorecards for use in healthcare settings: development and implementation (BMJ Open Quality, July 2021)

• Application of comprehensive unit-based safety program model in the inter-hospital transfer of patients with critical diseases: a retrospective controlled study (BMC Health Services Research, July 2021)

• Hidden labour: the skilful work of clinical audit data collection and its implications for secondary use of data via integrated health IT (BMC Health Services Research, July 2021)

• Understanding and Working with Complexity (NHS Horizons, July 2021)

• How can we transfer service and policy innovations between health systems? (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, July 2021)

• Meaningful Changes Leaders Can Make to Promote the Long-Term Well-Being of the Health Care Workforce (The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, July 2021)

• Testing Changes for Respectful Maternity Care (The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, July 2021)

• How to Build a Learning Organization Culture (The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, July 2021)

• Sponge-on-a-string cancer test rolled out in Scotland (UK Research and Innovation, July 2021)

• What Does It Mean to Rethink Quality? (The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, July 2021)

• Starting your quality improvement journey in an NHS Trust (Picker Institute, June 2021)

Patient Involvement

• Improving communication between health care professionals and patients in the NHS in England (NHS England, July 2021) 

• Shared decision making: shared reality or insider jargon? (The Patients Association, July 2021)

• Understanding integration How to listen to and learn from people and communities (The Kings Fund, July 2021)

• How will we know integration of health and care services is working? (The Kings Fund, July 2021)

• Expanding the public and patient role in medical regulation (PHG Foundation, July 2021)

Strategy

• Lessons from the 2000s: the ambition to reduce waits must be matched with patience and realism (The Kings Fund, July 2021)

• Addressing the care backlog: An essential partnership between primary and secondary care (NHS Providers, July 2021) 

• What has been the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on key population health outcome measures? (The Strategy Unit, July 2021)

• A wait on your mind? A realistic proposal for tackling the elective backlog (Policy Exchange, July 2021)

• The Cost of Inequality – putting a price on health (Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, July 2021)

• Tackling obesity: the role of the NHS in a whole-system approach (The Kings Fund, July 2021)

• Unlocking solutions in imaging: working together to learn from failings in the NHS (Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, July 2021)

• Paying For Health Gains - CHE Research Paper 183 (Centre for Health Economics, July 2021)

• Chief Medical Officer’s annual report 2021: health in coastal communities (Department of Health and Social Care, July 2021)

• Department of Health and Social Care outcome delivery plan: 2021 to 2022 (Department of Health and Social Care, July 2021)

• Public perceptions of the NHS in 2020 (The Kings Fund, July 2021)

COVID-19 

• Health authorities’ health risk communication with the public during pandemics: a rapid scoping review (BMC Public Health, July 2021)

• Coronavirus: the consequences for mental health (Mind, July 2021)

• Unequal pandemic, fairer recovery (The Health Foundation, July 2021) 

• Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19 (BMJ, July 2021)

• People’s Perspective COVID-19: Preparing for the future (The Academy of Medical Sciences, July 2021)

• Attitudes towards and experiences of the NHS during Covid-19: views from patients, professionals and the public (Richmond Group of Charities, July 2021)

• The lived experience of disabled people during the Covid-19 pandemic (Cabinet Office Disability Unit, July 2021)

• Through the visor 2: further learning from member experiences during Covid-19 (British Geriatrics Society, July 2021) 

Technology

• Participatory co-design and normalisation process theory with staff and patients to implement digital ways of working into routine care: the example of electronic patient-reported outcomes in UK renal services (BMC Health Services Research, July 2021)

• The challenges in implementing digital change: cross-government (National Audit Office, July 2021)

• COVID-19 and the digital divide: Supporting digital inclusion and skills during the pandemic and beyond (The Centre for Ageing Better, July 2021)

• Digital Health Report: National Attitudes & Behaviours in the UK Today (ORCHA, July 2021)

• Care tech landscape review: mental health (Future Care Capital, July 2021)

• Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust gives patients ownership over their care with patient engagement portal (Health Tech Digital, July 2021)

• “We want action”: the need to transform mental health services with tech (Health Tech Digital, July 2021)

• Three new Trusts join nation’s largest medical staff bank (Health Tech Digital, July 2021)