September 2021 QI Evidence Update

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This post contains all of the articles in the September 2021 QI Evidence Update. These are searchable using the search bar.

Improvement 

• Learning from patient safety incidents involving acutely sick adults in hospital assessment units in England and Wales: a mixed methods analysis for quality improvement (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, August 2021)

• Reporting standards, outcomes and costs of quality improvement studies in Ireland: a scoping review (BMJ Open Quality, August 2021)

• Can pizza lead to sustainable quality improvement in the NHS? (NHS Providers, August 2021) 

• Joy in Work Results-Oriented Learning Network Case Study: NorthShore University HealthSystem (The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, August 2021)

• The presence and potential impact of psychological safety in the healthcare setting: an evidence synthesis (BMC Health Services Research, August 2021)

• Approaches to Measure Efficiency in Primary Care: A Systematic Literature Review (Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, August 2021)

  
  

Patient Involvement

• Inclusive language in health and care: why the words we use matter (The Kings Fund, August 2021)

• Co-creation of practical “how-to guides” for patient engagement in key phases of medicines development—from theory to implementation (Research Involvement and Engagement, August 2021)

• A first-hand experience of co-design in mental health service design: Opportunities, challenges, and lessons (August 2021)

Strategy

• Integrated Care Systems: Guidance (NHS England, August 2020)

• Guidance on the functions and governance of the integrated care board, and the model constitution (NHS Providers, August 2021)

• It’s not just about the front door of the hospital: lessons from the medical generalism in smaller hospitals study (The Nuffield Trust, August 2021)

• Ambitions for change: Improving healthcare in care homes (The British Geriatrics Society, August 2021) 

• Waiting times for elective (non-urgent) treatment: referral to treatment (RTT) (The Kings Fund, August 2021)

• Could NHS waiting lists really reach 13 million? (Institute for Fiscal Studies, August 2021)

• Right time, right place: Urgent community-based care for older people (British Geriatrics Society, August 2021)

• A system approach to the demand crunch (NHS Confederation, August 2021) 

• Social care funding: complex but not impossible (The Nuffield Trust, August 2021)

• Untapped? Understanding the mental health clinical support workforce (The Nuffield Trust, August 2021)

• The mental health workforce: challenges facing the NHS (The Nuffield Trust, August 2021)

• Five things we learnt from our work on the health and wellbeing of lower paid NHS staff (The Health Foundation, August 2021)

• Wizards of Oz? What the UK can learn from Australia’s healthcare system (Institute of Economic Affairs, August 2021)

• Mirror, mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly: Health Care in the U.S. compared to Other High-Income Countries (Commonwealth Fund, August 2021)

COVID-19 

• The role of the ambulance sector in transforming services and coping with the long-term impact of Covid-19 (NHS Providers, August 2021)

• Caring for hospital patients with COVID-19 Quality of care in England examined by case record review (Royal College of Physicians, August 2021)

• Transformations in the landscape of primary health care during Covid-19: themes from the European region (Health Policy, August 2021)

• Waiting for care: understanding the pandemic’s effects on people’s health and quality of life (The Health Foundation, August 2021)

• The pandemic transformed how social care was delivered – and these changes could be here to stay (The Conversation, August 2021)

• Long Covid – The illness narratives (Social Science & Medicine, August 2021)

  
  

Technology

• What Good Looks Like framework (NHSX, August 2021)

• Who Pays for What proposals (NHSX, August 2021)

• Royal Berkshire extends avatar-led interactive programme following pilot (Digital Health, August 2021)

• Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Babylon partner to deliver digital-first services (Health Tech Newspaper, August 2021)

• Will an uptake in digital health services have implications on inequalities? (Digital Health, August 2021)

• YouTube to add new features that help the public identify credible, trusted health information (Health Tech Newspaper, August 2021)

• Digital health is a vital tool: here’s how we can make it more sustainable (The Conversation, August 2021)