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Shifting the Focus
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A guide to quality improvement methods
A guide to quality improvement methods from Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) brings together twelve quality improvement (QI) methods, providing an overview of each and practical advice on how and when to implement them, with illustrative case examples. QI methods covered include clinical audit; Plan, Do, Study, Act; model for improvement; LEAN/Six Sigma; performance benchmarking, process mapping and statistical process control and it is aimed at all professionals with an interest in QI. The purpose of this guidance is to signpost those working within, leading, commissioning and using healthcare services to a broad range of quality improvement methods. It should be especially useful to those putting together quality improvement programmes.
Developing a Quality Culture
The purpose of this monograph is to construct a package of proposals which will allow an NHS Board to achieve improvements in the delivery of patient care and implement its clinical governance responsibilities. Prepared with a specific Board in mind, the recommendations will be relevant to all clinical organisations in Scotland at Trust and NHS Board level. The introduction sets out the study and the context for the monograph. The study started with the key principles relating to clinical quality outlined in 'Designed to Care' (The Scottish Office Health Department, 1997) and the 'Scottish Health Plan' (The Scottish Executive Health Department, 2000) and reinforced in other associated docume...
Vital Systems
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Safety and Improvement in Primary Care
In recent decades most of the international effort given over to studying and improving the safety of patient care has been focused in acute hospital settings. To some extent this was always something of a puzzle to those of us with a direct interest in this important issue...Now, however, the tide is slowly turning. Policymakers, healthcare leader
Managing Quality
First published in 1999, this eclectic collection of papers examines quality management in health care from a variety of standpoints. Managers, health care professionals and patients all have valid – but often differing – perspectives on the nature of quality, its creation and maintenance. This book explores these perspectives, beginning by asking such fundamental questions as ‘Is health care a business?’, ‘How should health services be designed?’ and ‘What is quality of care?’. Subsequent chapters then address the practicalities of measuring and improving health care quality. The chequered history of clinical audit is exposed in the UK (essentially the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycl...
