May 2025 QI Evidence Update
- Andrea Gibbons
- May 13
- 4 min read
Welcome to the May 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.
What’s Inside?
A downloadable PDF and editable Word version of the update for easy sharing and customisation.
A searchable list of resources—just use the search bar at the top of the page.
Why Use This Update?
Save Time: Skip the hours of searching with a concise, expertly curated summary of the most relevant QI resources.
Stay Updated: Keep pace with emerging trends, evidence, and research in quality improvement.
Enhance Your Work: Use the latest evidence and research to inspire, inform, and strengthen your QI initiatives.
Feel free to customise and share this update, crediting andrea.gibbons@somersetft.nhs.uk and Somerset NHS FT.
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1. Quality Improvement
Improving and supporting quality of care in Dutch nursing homes: a quantitative study (BMC Health Services Reseach, April 2025)
Domiciliary subcutaneous furosemide in patients with CKD and HF: a quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Ending PJ paralysis for hospitalised patients: a quality improvement initiative (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Enhancing patient satisfaction and experience through bedside interdisciplinary rounds: a quality improvement study (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Identifying frail patients at the front door: a quality improvement project on improving identifying frailty and accuracy of Clinical Frailty Scale in the emergency department in an acute general hospital (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Implementation of the bedside paediatric early warning system, its sustainability in clinical practice and patient outcomes: a quality improvement initiative (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Ethical and legal considerations governing use of health data for quality improvement and performance management: a scoping review of the perspectives of health professionals and administrators (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Improving hydration among hospitalised older adults in an acute geriatric ward with a bundled multi-component intervention (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Improving ototoxicity monitoring in patients receiving aminoglycosides using a novel digital approach: a quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Improving respiratory rate monitoring in general wards following implementation of a rapid response system: a quality improvement initiative (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Improving safety and timeliness around nasogastric tube feeding on an Acute stroke unit (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Improving uptake of telemedicine (phone/video consult): methods and lessons learnt (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Increasing evidence-based care practices for patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia through required infectious diseases consultation in a tertiary care hospital: a quality improvement initiative (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Quality improvement initiative to reduce inappropriate urinary catheterisation on a clinical teaching unit (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Quality improvement project to reduce the incidence of nasal bridge pressure sores in adults requiring acute non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Reduction of inappropriate perioperative neurology outpatient referrals for perioperative risk assessment and antithrombotic risk management in a major academic hospital (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Spreading of hand hygiene change package across an acute hospital (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Using a collaborative approach to reduce falls in older people’s adult mental health wards in a local health board in Wales (BMJ Open Quality, April 2025)
Effect of text message reminders to improve paediatric immunisation rates: a randomised controlled quality improvement project (BMJ Quality & Safety, April 2025)
The impact of staff fatigue on patient safety (Health Services Safety Investigations Body, April 2025)
Implementation of a quality improvement tool ‘Recover25’ to guide the care of patients experiencing prolonged critical illness: a mixed-method feasibility study (Kings College London, April 2025)
How senior leaders support innovations in large learning health systems: Insights from United States Veterans Health Administration national program office leaders (Learning Health Systems, April 2025)
Supporting system improvement: lessons from a peer learning programme (NHS Confederation, April 2025)
Elements of Improving Quality and Safety in Healthcare - Clinical Microsystems and Team Coaching (THIS Institute, April 2025)
2. Integrated care & strategy
Community mental health survey 2024 (Care Quality Commission, April 2025)
Resetting the relationship: towards a social model of health creation and care (NHS Confederation, April 2025)
Prescription for outpatients: reimagining planned specialist care (Royal College of Physicians, April 2025)
Did the NHS experience record pressures this winter? (The Health Foundation, April 2025)
Electronic patient records: why the NHS urgently needs a strategy to reap the benefits (The Health Foundation, April 2025)
Place-based partnerships: challenges and opportunities (The King’s Fund, April 2025)
Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2024: results from the British Social Attitudes survey (The King’s Fund, April 2025)
3. Patients & people
Co-production in maternal health services: creating culturally safe spaces, respecting difference and supporting collaborative solutions – Editorial (BMJ Quality & Safety, April 2025)
Workforce and patient safety: primary and community care co-ordination for people with long-term conditions (Health Services Safety Investigations Body, April 2025)
Forging a more equitable healthy future through patient and public involvement and engagement (Health Innovation Network, April 2025)
Addressing Health Communication Gaps: Improving Patient Experiences and Outcomes Through Human-Centered Design (Journal of Patient Experience, April 2025)
4. Events
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
