Handling Ethics Issues in the Quality Improvement Process — Ensuring that QI projects protect patients and the healthcare organisation Abstract author: Nancy Dixon from Healthcare Quality Quest
Dr Wasim Baqir from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust discusses the important differences between audit and quality improvement.
Measuring Patient Safety in Real Time: An Essential Method for Effectively Improving the Safety of Care
We asked Peter Lachman, deputy medical director for safety at Great Ormond Street Hospital, who he thought should be doing quality improvement work, and how professionals can work together on ...
Quality improvement is a systematic approach to improving health care based on an iterative process of continuous testing, measurement, learning and change. In this video we speak to quality ...
What is the plan, do, study, act cycle, and why do we use it in quality improvement projects? Watch our short animation to learn more.
Dr Avi Mehra and Dr Jen Perry give us their top 5 tips for making a quality improvement project on handover.
Dr Sinead Millwood joins us to talk about her motivations for doing a quality improvement project, where she got her inspiration, and her overall experiences through this process. You can see her ...
This week, Dr Mareeni Raymond (GP and managing editor of BMJ Quality Improvement Reports) gives us an overview of quality improvement, including what it consists of, who it is for, and why you ...
The excellent Don Berwick's plenary speech at the International Forum in Berlin 2009
Compassion 'has to be our number one priority' says Hiro Tanaka, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
IHI faculty member Doug Bonacum makes the case for high reliability as the cornerstone of patient safety.