October 2025 QI Evidence Update
- Andrea Gibbons
- Oct 2
- 4 min read
Welcome to the October 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. Feel free to customise, rebrand and share this update, crediting andrea.gibbons@somersetft.nhs.uk and Somerset NHS FT.
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Use of implementation science frameworks to identify core components and sustainability characteristics of a quality improvement learning collaborative (BMC Health Services Research)
Decreasing blood culture contamination rates in a rural emergency department: a quality improvement initiative (BMJ Open Quality)
Enhancing senior physician-led multidisciplinary team rounds to improve patient care at Wallaga University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, 2025 (BMJ Open Quality)
Evaluating the implementation of the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle Version 2 from service user and healthcare professionals perspectives: a questionnaire study (BMJ Open Quality)
Improving the detection and documentation of suspected cauda equina syndrome: a quality improvement project (BMJ Open Quality)
Informed consent: is it more than a formality? a quality improvement project in surgical practice (BMJ Open Quality)
Multidisciplinary initiative to reduce 30-day readmissions in heart failure: a quality improvement perspective (BMJ Open Quality)
On the same (evaluation) page: a novel approach to enhance mixed-methods implementation evaluation (BMJ Open Quality)
Reducing surgical site infections in patients undergoing pancreatic resection: a quality improvement initiative (BMJ Open Quality)
Do patient safety incident investigations align with systems thinking? An analysis of contributing factors and recommendations (BMJ Quality & Safety)
Outpatient operational guide: Standardising outpatient clinic templates (Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT))
How Have Quality Improvement Strategies Been Adopted and How Has Impact Been Assessed in Care Homes for Older People? A Systematic Search and Narrative Review (International Journal of Older People Nursing)
Impact of Care Delivered in Nondesignated Areas on Older Patients Admitted With Hip Fractures: A Quality Improvement Initiative (Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Improving oral health in Ireland: a dental and public health nurse collaborative quality improvement initiative (Journal of Public Health)
Podcast: The role of improvement in implementing the shift from analogue to digital (NHS Confederation)
Q’s new home at the NHS Confederation (NHS Confederation)
From hospital to community? The good, the bad, and the ugly of the 10-year plan to move care to the community – editorial (British Journal of General Practice)
How ICSs are supporting the wider economy - four case studies (NHS Confederation)
Implementing the 10 Year Health Plan: eight things we’ve learned (NHS Confederation)
The model region blueprint: what you need to know (NHS Confederation)
Towards a new co-investment model: what is next for NHS public-private partnerships? (NHS Confederation)
Transforming the NHS estate to enable a neighbourhood health service (NHS Confederation)
Jess’s Rule: Three strikes and we rethink (NHS England)
NHS oversight framework – NHS trust performance league tables process and results (NHS England)
All or nothing? Access and variation in NHS continuing health care (Nuffield Trust)
From hospital to community: International lessons on moving care closer to home (Nuffield Trust)
‘Well-led’: an evidence review (Think Local Act Personal)
Lived experience in Italian mental health services: a national survey of peer support and co-production practices (BMC Health Services Research)
Beyond the methodological binary: coproduction as the third pillar of mental health science (BMJ Mental Health)
Adult inpatient survey 2024 (Care Quality Commission)
Amplifying the Future of Patient Voices and Cross-Disease Networking Through the Advocacy Exchange (Journal of Patient Experience)
From Frustration to Understanding: The Effectiveness of an Emergency Department Waiting Room Video in Enhancing Patient Satisfaction (Journal of Patient Experience)
Insights on the Future Priorities of Patient Experience Research as Care Experience Research (Journal of Patient Experience)
Co-creating an everyday language illustration of learning health systems alongside patient, caregiver, and community partner (Learning Health Systems)
National Cancer Patient Experience Survey 2024: National Qualitative Report (NHS England)
Insights from people with lived experience to inform inclusive approaches to health protection (UK Health Security Agency)
Teamwork, leadership and collaboration: facilitating improvement in South London perinatal services: 14 October 2025 12:30-14:00, Free Q event
The Use of Evaluation in Improvement: 16 October 2025 9.30, Free NHS IMPACT Masterclass
NHS IMPACT Lunch & Learn - Learning from North East and North Cumbria: peer review toolkit: 30 October 2025 12:00-13:00, Free MS Teams event
Leading Successful Partnerships: November 2025: 19 November 2025 12:00-13:00, Free Q event
THIS Space 2025: 25 November 2025 from 10.00, Free online conference
In conversation with the National Improvement Board – 27 November 2025 9:30-11:00, Free online
For full national quality improvement events listing go to: https://www.theqihub.com/post/events
Feel free to customise and share this update, crediting andrea.gibbons@somersetft.nhs.uk and Somerset NHS FT.
