NHS Education for Scotland: Model for improvement

Summary

The Model for Improvement is a simple yet powerful tool for accelerating improvement. The model is not meant to replace change models that organizations may already be using, but rather to accelerate improvement.

Content

An Improvement Team would use the tool as a framework for applying the five fundamental principles of improvement:

1. Knowing why there is a need to improve.
2. Being able to interpret if improvement is happening through measurement.
3. Developing an effective change theory which will result in improvement.
4. Testing a change before moving to implementation.
5. Knowing when and how to implement a change.