November 2018 QI Evidence Update

This post contains all of the articles in the November 2018 QI Evidence Update. These are searchable using the search bar.

Improvement 

• The Taunton & Somerset Improvement Model (Fab, October 2018)

• The Taunton & Somerset Blended Methodology (Fab, October 2018)

• Approaches to better value in the NHS, improving quality and cost (The King’s Fund, Oct 2018) 

• Quality Improvement in hospital trusts, sharing learning from trusts on a journey of QI (CQC, Sept 2018)

• Videos, Embedding quality improvement skills with Pedro Delgado (NHS Improvement, Aug 2018)  

• Staff improvement ideas get a boost with new app (UCL Partners, Nov 2018)

Outpatients

• Briefing: Reducing emergency admissions: unlocking the potential of people to better manage their long term conditions (The Health Foundation, Aug 2018)

• Briefing: Rethinking outpatient services: learning from an interactive workshop (Nuffield Trust, Aug 2018)

• Please, write to me. Writing outpatient clinic letters to patients guidance (AOMRC, Sept 2018)  

• Advice line for GPs saves hours of travel for patients and £100k to be reinvested back into NHS (NHS England, Nov 2018)

• The app giving power to outpatients at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS FT (Digital Health, Oct 2018)

• Group Appointments - NHS efficiency savings are unsustainable (London Business School, Oct 2018) 

Patient Experience

• Shared decision making: Staying focused on the ultimate goal (NEJM Catalyst, Sept 2018)

• Improving Hospitalist Patient Experience Scores: The Importance of Physician-to-Physician Coaching and Medical Director Engagement (NEJM Catalyst, Aug 2018)

• Getting more health from healthcare: quality improvement must acknowledge patient coproduction (BMJ Sept 2018)

Models of Care

• Unlocking capacity: smarter together, helping health and adult social care work better together, 7 Case studies (Quality Matters)

• ‘Virtual wards’ reduce readmissions in people after hospitalisation for heart failure (NIHR Signal, Aug 2018)

• A year of integrated care systems: reviewing the journey so far (The King’s Fund, Sept 2018)

Efficiency and Planning

• Five tests for the NHS long term plan (NHS Providers, Sept 2018)

• Making the most of efficiency and the long term plan (NHS Providers, Oct 2018)

• Steeling ourselves for winter 2018/19 (NHS Providers, Oct 2018)