March 2019 QI Evidence Update

This post contains all of the articles in the March 2019 QI Evidence Update. These are searchable using the search bar.

Improvement 

• Knowledge of Improvement methods and how to use them at all levels (NHS Improvement, Feb 2019)

• Using Data for Improvement (BMJ and the Health Foundation, Feb 2019)

• Explaining organisational responses to a board level quality improvement intervention: findings from an evaluation in six providers in the NHS (BMJ Quality & Safety, Feb 2019) 

• Harveian Oration 2018: Improving quality and safety in healthcare (Royal College of Physicians, Clin Med, Jan 2019) or watch it here

• The Answer to culture change: everyday management tactics (NEJM Catalyst, Mar 2019)

• Introduction of an electronic weekend handover system at a London university teaching hospital (Future Healthcare Journal 2018 Vol 5, No 3: 224–8)

Patient Experience and Engagement

• Every patient should be enabled to stop the line (BMJ Quality & Safety, Feb 2019) 

• What’s the problem with patient experience feedback? A macro and micro understanding, based on findings from a three-site UK qualitative study (Health Expectations Journal, Feb 2019) 

• Patient engagement from both sides of the bed (NEJM Catalyst, Dec 2018)

• The Proudest day of Grace’s life was graduating as a doctor. Then she began treating patients – Illustrated story. (Guardian, Jan 2019)

• Patient engagement survey: health care has a lot to learn from consumer-friendly industries (NEJM Catalyst, Jan 2019)

• There’s a ‘pub’ on a hospital dementia ward so the men can still meet for a pint ‘after work’ (Wales Online, Feb 2019) 

• Nurse work environments linked to outcomes (Science Daily, Mar 2019)

Technology

• The Topol Review: Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future (HEE, Feb 2019)

• Royal Liverpool NHS and Liverpool 5G launches ‘Livernerds Lab’ to test latest digital technologies (DigitalHealth, Mar 2019) 

• NHS video consultation system set to be rolled out across Lincolnshire (Lincolnshire Live, Mar 2019)

• The ATMs transforming healthcare in South Africa (BBC, Mar 2019)

• UPS uses drones to deliver medical samples (Healthcare IT News, Mar 2019)

New Models of Care

• Bridging the gap: person centred, place-based self-management support (Future Healthcare Journal 2018 Vol 5, No 3: 188–91)

• Enhanced data sharing and continuity of care in Denmark (Health Europa, April 2019)

• Extraordinary virtual multidisciplinary team meetings – a novel forum for the coordinated care of patients with complex conditions within a secondary care setting (Future Healthcare Journal 2018 Vol 5, No 3: 218–23)

• Helping hospital patients to get home (CAN DO Health & Care, Feb 2019) 

• Nobody wants a waiting room (NEJM Catalyst, Feb 2019)

• Surrey Heartlands Care Home Advice Line - Video (NHS Surrey Heartlands, Jan 2019) 

Efficiency and Planning

• NHS Long term plan (NHS, Jan 2019)

• The NHS long-term plan explained (The Kings Fund, Jan 2019)

• Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2018: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey (Nuffield Trust & The King’s Fund, Mar 2019)

• Guide to reducing long hospital stays (NHS Improvement, Mar 2019)

• Outcomes for mental health services. What really matters? (The Kings Fund, March 2019)

• What does improving population health really mean? (The Kings Fund, March 2019)