October 2019 QI Evidence Update

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

Improvement 

• Course Corrections: How Health Care Innovators Learn from Setbacks to Achieve Success (Commonwealth Fund, September 2019)

• Re-energising the way we manage change in healthcare: the case for soft systems methodology and its application to evidence-based practices (BMC Health Services Research, September 2019)

• Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme, Annual Report 2018-19 (PQIP, September 2019)

• Can quality improvement improve the quality of care? A systematic review of reported effects and methodological rigor in plan-do-study-act projects (BMC Health Services Research, October 2019)

• How to improve healthcare improvement - an essay by Mary Dixon-Woods (BMJ, October 2019)

• Better care for patients and service users (NHS Providers, October 2019)

• How putting NHS staff first is making hospitals better (The Guardian, October 2019)

Technology

• Transforming care through technology: A toolkit for new models of outpatient care (The Shelford Group, September 2019) 

• Text message reminders increase attendance at NHS health checks (NIHR Signal, September 2019)

• What HCPs think about online consultation (Pharmaphorum, September 2019)

• What the NHS can learn from global healthcare tech (Raconteur, September 2019)

• How New Health Care Platforms Will Improve Patient Care (Harvard Business Review, October 2019)

• World’s First 5G Tele-Examination of an Eye (NHS Forth Valley, October 2019)

• Thoughtonomy launches shared marketplace for NHS automation (Digital Health, October 2019)

• Video Consultations offer more choice and flexibility to patients in Cumbria (Health Tech Digital, October 2019)

• Over 300,000 service users treated through digital NHS therapy (Digital Health, October 2019)

• NHS Vale of York rolls out predictive analytics to cut A&E admissions (Digital Health, October 2019)

Patient Experience & Engagement

• Organisational strategies and practices to improve care using patient experience data in acute NHS hospital trusts: an ethnographic study (NIHR, September 2019)

• What We Can Learn from Orwell's Rules for Great Writing for Effective Communication with Patients (NHS Horizons, September 2019)

• There and back. What people tell us about their experiences of travelling to and from NHS services (Healthwatch, October 2019)

Efficiency & Planning

• Strengthening health systems through nursing: Evidence from 14 European countries (ebook, Local Government Association & Social Care Institute for Excellence, September 2019)

• Caring, supportive, collaborative: a future vision for the NHS (BMA, September 2019)

• Elective care: Indicator update (QualityWatch, September 2019) 

• The state of  the NHS provider sector (NHS Providers, October 2019)

• The politics of health: what do the public think about the NHS? (The Kings Fund, October 2019)

• Is it becoming winter all year round for the NHS? (Nuffield Trust, October 2019)

• A consensus on healthy ageing (Public Health England & Centre for Ageing Better, October 2019)

• Departmental Overview: Department of Health and Social Care 2019 (National Audit Office, October 2019)

• The state of health care and adult social care in England 2018/19 (CQC, October 2019)

Blogs

• Adding the sparkle to change programmes (NHS England, September 2019)

• Going Dutch in West Suffolk: learning from the Buurtzorg model of care (The Kings Fund, September 2019) 

• Quality Improvement is best done by health staff, not academics, writes John Lister (The Lowdown, October 2019)