Six steps to de-implementation: A toolkit for leaders

Summary

Some healthcare practices, including tasks intended to make care safer, are implemented without any evidence that they are of benefit, and can add an unnecessary burden to the day-to-day work of healthcare staff. This six-step toolkit provides resources to help identify which tasks or processes might be suitable for streamlining, and a step-by-step a guide to developing an evidence-based strategy for safely rethinking, reducing or removing a practice. It has been developed by the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group at the Bradford Institute for Health Research, UK, through consultation with healthcare professionals and public contributors.