June 2025 Improvement Evidence Update
- Andrea Gibbons
- Jun 6
- 4 min read
Welcome to the June 2025 QI Evidence Update — your go-to monthly summary of the latest healthcare improvement research, evidence, tools, and events—all from the past month and condensed into just 2 pages for easy reference.
Feel free to customise and share this update. If you do, please credit Dr Andrea Gibbons and Somerset NHS FT as the creators.
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Improvement
National stakeholders’ consensus to optimise research awareness through mandatory induction training using the Nominal Group Technique: the INTRO project (BMC Health Services Research)
Assessment of urgent investigative images transfer effectiveness from trauma and orthopaedic to neurosurgery department: a quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality)
Collaborative quality improvement initiative to enhance adult asthma management (BMJ Open Quality)
Decreasing prevalence of anaemia in pregnant women at delivery: a quality improvement initiative (India) (BMJ Open Quality)
How does QI work? A trust-building framework in African healthcare: primary evidence from Kenya and Malawi (BMJ Open Quality)
Improving accurate documentation for reducing restraint use: a quality improvement project in a Dutch academic hospital (BMJ Open Quality)
Improvement in safety measures to reduce ED returns (BMJ Open Quality)
Improving patient access to symptomatic treatment through self-serving nausea stations at Peace Arch Hospital emergency department (BMJ Open Quality)
Improving the quality of induction of labour in maternity services (BMJ Open Quality)
Improving the safety of heparin usage by standardisation of practice (BMJ Open Quality)
Improving the suspected cauda equina syndrome pathway at a district general hospital: a quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality)
Improving utilisation of the WHO surgical safety checklist at Wollega University Referral Hospital: a multidimensional quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality)
One step on the QI journey: team perspectives on surveys for improvement (BMJ Open Quality)
Prehospital to emergency department handoff: can team-based reporting improve markers of clinical efficiency in an adult emergency department? (BMJ Open Quality)
Reducing routine group and save testing in emergency laparoscopic appendicectomy surgery: a quality improvement project assessing the triple bottom line (BMJ Open Quality)
Striking the right balance between accountability and quality improvement: a discharge summary timeliness tale (BMJ Open Quality)
Improving weaning and liberation from mechanical ventilation for tracheostomy patients: a quality improvement initiative (BMJ Quality & Safety)
Metrics used in quality improvement publications addressing environmental sustainability in healthcare: a scoping review (BMJ Quality & Safety)
Sustainable Radiology: Health Equity and Quality Improvement (Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal)
How Can We Decrease Early Dialysis Initiation? An Interactive Quality Improvement Teaching Case for Health Care Providers and Narrative Review of Quality Improvement Methodology (Canadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease)
Reducing Unnecessary X-Rays for Nasal Fractures: A Quality Improvement Project (Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery)
Implementing innovative flexible working to combat escalating demand on services – Case Study (NHS Employers)
Health inequalities in health protection report 2025 (UK Health Security Agency)
Strategy & Integrated Care
Mental health inpatient settings: overarching report of investigations directed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Health Services Safety Investigations Body)
A new operating model for health and care (NHS Confederation)
Can the ten-year health plan deliver on its promise? (NHS Confederation)
Patient safety healthcare inequalities reduction framework (NHS England)
Bold action: tackling inequalities in maternity care (NHS Providers)
Model ICB Blueprint (NHS Providers)
Connected care: transforming care coordination (Partnership for Change)
Hospital of the future: hospital as a service, not a building (Re:State)
Improving clinical co-ordination of care for people with multiple long-term conditions (The Kings Fund)
Patients & People
What do people do in the aftermath of healthcare-related harm? A qualitative study on experiences and factors influencing decision-making (BMJ Quality & Safety)
Health and social care support for people with dementia (Care Quality Commission)
Putting young people at the heart of care (NHS Providers)
What does it take to learn from patient and caregiver experiences to improve healthcare? Key considerations from patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals at a Canadian hospital (SSM-Health Systems)
Events
11-12 June 2025: NHS ConfedExpo 2025 - Free for NHS Staff and public sector, Manchester Central
13 June 2025: Tools to understand an improvement opportunity - Free NHS IMPACT Masterclass
13 June 2025: Deadline for entries for HSJ Awards 2025
26 June 2025: In conversation with the National Improvement Board - Free online
27 June 2025: Behavioural science - Free NHS IMPACT Masterclass
10 July 2025: Inequalities and improvement - high intensity use of emergency departments - Free NHS IMPACT Lunch & Learn
15 July 2025: Mastering the PDSA cycle - Free NHS IMPACT Masterclass
15 July 2025: AI, quality and safety: implications for QI methods - Free online Q Community event
31 July 2025: Quality Improvement South West - Free online quality improvement conference
7 August 2025: Quality Management Systems - Free NHS IMPACT Masterclass
16 October 2025: The Use of Evaluation in Improvement - Free NHS IMPACT Masterclass
25 November 2025: THIS Space 2025 - Free online conference
27 November 2025: In conversation with the National Improvement Board - Free online
