September 2025 QI Evidence Update
- Andrea Gibbons
- Sep 7
- 4 min read
Welcome to the September 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 the QI Evidence 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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Quality Improvement
A one-stop clinic improvement project for postmenopausal bleeding in NHS Forth Valley (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Enhancing equity and efficiency in cervical screening uptake: a multidisciplinary quality improvement initiative (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Low-touch approach empowering clinical teams to improve the medical on-call communication experience (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Measuring health confidence: benefits to patients, clinicians and healthcare providers (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Metabolic monitoring among patients with psychotic disorders taking antipsychotics: results of a quality improvement project to address this challenging guideline-practice gap (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Identifying facilitators, barriers and areas of opportunity in diabetic retinopathy screening: quality improvement through qualitative methods (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Quality improvement project to reduce length of stay for patients with urinary tract infections in an NHS hospital trust (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Reducing incidents of violence and aggression and self-harm on a secure mental health inpatient ward for women with learning disabilities (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Task shifting: a key aspect to improving care for women at risk of preterm birth (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Transforming improvement training at scale with essential digital training skills (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
Cluster randomised evaluation of a training intervention to increase the use of statistical process control charts for hospitals in England: making data count (BMJ Quality & Safety, Aug 2025)
From complaint material to quality improvement: Exploring the use of patient complaints or compensation claims in quality improvement initiatives—a scoping review (BMJ Quality & Safety, Aug 2025)
QIing your QI: a 13-year experience of a paediatric residency QI programme (BMJ Quality & Safety, Aug 2025)
Using individualised bowel care plans to improve clinical outcomes in specialist intellectual disability mental health units in England and Wales: quality improvement project (BJPsych Open, Aug 2025)
Development of a Best Practice Guide to Optimise the Reporting of Patient Reported Measures by Clinical Quality Registries for Quality Improvement Purposes (Health Services Insights, Aug 2025)
Evaluation of four learning collaboratives for improving diagnostic excellence in radiology (Learning Health Systems, Aug 2025)
LiveWell: Reducing admissions through community-led peer support (NHS Confederation, Aug 2025)
The SusQI 5Ms: A Model for Achieving Age-Friendly, Planet-Friendly Care (The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, Aug 2025)
Patients & Carers
'Alone on our NF1 island: a patient-led mixed-method survey study to understand the care pathway for neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) patients in the UK (BMJ Open Quality, Aug 2025)
“Why Should Anyone Want to Make Things Better for me Particularly?” – A Qualitative Exploration of Care Opinion and NHS Care Improvements (Patient Experience Journal, Aug 2025)
Strategy
Reframing the evaluation of integrated care; examples from the NHS in England (Health Policy, Aug 2025)
ICB clusters and mergers: what you need to know (NHS Confederation, Aug 2025)
Delivering a neighbourhood health service: what the 10 Year Health Plan means for local integration (NHS Confederation, Aug 2025)
NHS league tables: why thoughtful design is essential (NHS Confederation, Aug 2025)
Podcast: The neighbourhood shift: Can the 10 Year Health Plan deliver? (NHS Confederation, Aug 2025)
Making commissioning strategic (NHS Providers, Aug 2025)
What do trusts need to help them to deliver the 2025/26 financial reset? (NHS Providers, Aug 2025)
Bringing NHS England back under closer political control: lessons from history (The Health Foundation, Aug 2025)
Health care for older adults (The Health Foundation, Aug 2025)
Leading NHS groups: Findings from interviews with group leaders in England (The Health Foundation, Aug 2025)
NHS reliant on beds in the independent sector for mental health care (The Kings Fund, Aug 2025)
Podcast: Will the 10 Year Health Plan really tackle the nation’s health crisis? (The Kings Fund, Aug 2025)
The NHS at a crossroads, the app that can transform Britain's health (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Aug 2025)
Events
QI Week: Week of QI Events: 8-12 September 2025, multiple online events
QI Grand Round with Somerset NHS FT – 16 and 30 September 2025 12:00-13:00, Free MS Teams event
Skills for collaborative change: 17 September 2025 12:00-13:00, Free online Q Community event
One QI project born every minute: a maternity workshop: 18 September 2025 12:30-13:30, Free online Q Community event
Paediatric Hearing Services Improvement Programme webinar: Providers: 18 September 2025 12:00-13:00 led by the Office of the Chief Scientific Officer at NHS England
National Improvers Learning Network Session: 19 September 2025 10:00-10:45 - network members only - apply to join network here
Teamwork, leadership and collaboration: facilitating improvement in South London perinatal services: 14 October 2025 12:30-14:00, Free online Q Community event
The Use of Evaluation in Improvement: 16 October 2025 9.30, Free NHS IMPACT Masterclass,
Leading Successful Partnerships: November 2025: 19 November 2025 12:00-13:00, Free online Q Community 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
