August 2025 Improvement Evidence Update

Welcome to the August 2025 edition of the Evidence Update. This summer edition brings together quality improvement research, evidence, tools, and events from June and July 2025, expertly curated into just 2 pages for easy reference.

Keep pace with emerging trends, evidence, and research in quality improvement and use the latest evidence and research to inspire, inform, and strengthen your QI initiatives.

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• Evaluating the implementation of a longitudinal cocurricular experiential quality improvement training programme for undergraduate medical students (BMJ Open Quality, July 2025)

• Improving the rates of inpatient HbA1c assessment and medication deintensification in people with diabetes and frailty (BMJ Open Quality, July 2025)

• Improving venous access by using a near-infrared vein-finder device and ultrasound skill building: a quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality, June 2025)

• Quality improvement project to reduce length of stay for patients with urinary tract infections in an NHS hospital trust (BMJ Open Quality, August 2025)

• Quality improvement project to routinely identify sensory and eating challenges in childhood neurodevelopmental movement disorders (BMJ Open Quality, July 2025)

• Reducing incidents of violence and aggression and self-harm on a secure mental health inpatient ward for women with learning disabilities (BMJ Open Quality, August 2025)

• Timely identification of deteriorating patients from acute respiratory infections at the primary care level in the COVID-19 era: quality improvement collaborative (BMJ Open Quality, July 2025)

• Using Quality Improvement to improve serious incident reporting in the English NHS (BMJ Open Quality, July 2025)

• A realist review of how, why, for whom and in which contexts quality improvement in healthcare impacts inequalities (BMJ Quality & Safety, July 2025)

• What Do We Know About Contemporary Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Training Curricula in Health Workers? A Rapid Scoping Review (Healthcare, June 2025)

• Acceptability of Components for a Mandatory Quality Improvement Framework: A Survey Among Swiss General Practitioners (Health Services Insights, June 2025)

• Six Sigma Applied to Healthcare: A Global Scientometrics Analysis of Health Services Quality Improvement Research (Health Services Insights, June 2025)

• Development of a Comprehensive Tool to Assess Rigor When Evaluating Quality Improvement Projects (Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, June 2025)

• Transforming Health Care Through Quality and Safety (Mayo Clinic Proceedings, August 2025)

• How to resource improvement and transformation - Podcast (NHS Confederation, June 2025)

• Implementing the Ten-Year Health Plan: ensuring an effective approach to change (NHS Confederation, July 2025)

• Improvement across the interface: Lessons from collaboratives (NHS Confederation, July 2025)

• Mission improvement: insight from system improvement leaders (NHS Confederation, July 2025)

• Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape (NHS Providers, June 2025)

• Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change Part of Elements of Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare Series (THIS Institute, June 2025)

• Explain THIS: Spread, Scale-Up, and Sustainability (THIS Institute, June 2025)

• Fit for the future: 10 Year Health Plan for England (UK Government, July 2025)

• Ten-Year Health Plan: what you need to know (NHS Confederation, July 2025)

• Truly fit for the future? The 10 Year Health Plan explained (Kings Fund, July 2025)

• Dazed and confused? Policy ideas behind the 10-Year Health Plan (Health Foundation)

• The 10 Year Health Plan: what is it and what happens next? - Podcast (Kings Fund, July 2025)

• Is the Ten-Year Health Plan the right plan for the NHS? - Podcast (NHS Confederation, July 2025)

• Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape (UK Government, July 2025)

• Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape - Briefing (NHS Providers, July 2025)

• Dash review: seven considerations for local NHS leaders (Health Foundation, July 2025)

• Value in Health: Addressing the productivity challenge in acute care (Carnall Farrar, July 2025)

• Value in Health: Unmet care gaps in the treatment of chronic diseases (Carnall Farrar, July 2025)

• Hitting the right targets Working paper (Health Foundation, June 2025)

• Creating a health hub in Whitehawk: East and Central Brighton PCN's learning about neighbourhood care (Kings Fund, June 2025)

• From burnout to belief: reflections on reforming the NHS from within (Kings Fund, July 2025)

• A new front door: reimagining primary care for the next decade (NHS Confederation, June 2025)

• Health and devolution reforms 2025: what you need to know (NHS Confederation, July 2025)

• How ICSs are moving care closer to home – four case studies (NHS Confederation, June 2025)

• Mental Health: delivering the three shifts (NHS Providers, June 2025)

• How AI-powered consultation services in internet hospitals influence patient satisfaction: A structural analysis (Digital Health, June 2025)

• A qualitative study to improve how we partner with patients and families in Healthcare Improvement Collaboratives (Health Expectations, June 2025)

• The impact of social drivers of health on the experience of the caring process: how the perceived quality of care can help identify health inequities (Journal of Health Equity, July 2025)

• The Pediatric Experience Collaborative: Paving the Way in Pediatric Experience (Journal of Patient Experience, July 2025)

• Identifying Patients’ Preference During Their Hospital Experience. A Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Patient-Experience Comments via Natural Language Techniques (Patient Preference & Adherence, July 2025)

• Why children and young people’s voices matter in health and care (The Kings Fund, July 2025)

• Leveraging AI to Drive Timely Improvements in Patient Experience Feedback: Algorithm Validation (JMIR Medical Informatics, July 2025)

• QI Week: Week of QI Events: 8-12 Sept 2025, multiple online events

• Working Together to Improve the Experience of Discharge at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust: 9 Sept 2025 12:00-13:00, Free MS Teams event

• Q collaboration event, Bath: 10 Sept 2025, Free in person event

• Skills for collaborative change: 17 Sept 2025 12:00-13:00, Free online Q Community event

• One QI project born every minute: a maternity workshop: 18 Sept 2025 12:30-13:30, Free online Q Community event

• National Improvers Learning Network Session: 19 Sept 2025 10:00-10:45 - apply to join network here

• Teamwork, leadership and collaboration: facilitating improvement in South London perinatal services: 14 Oct 2025 12:30-14:00, Free online Q Community event

• The Use of Evaluation in Improvement: 16 Oct 2025 9.30, Free NHS IMPACT Masterclass,

• Leading Successful Partnerships: November 2025: 19 Nov 2025 12:00-13:00, Free online Q Community event

• THIS Space 2025: 25 Nov 2025 from 10.00, Free online conference

• In conversation with the National Improvement Board: 27 Nov 2025 9:30-11:00, Free online