Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant literature

Summary

Formal evaluations of programmes are an important source of learning about the challenges faced in improving quality in healthcare and how they can be addressed. The authors of this narrative review in BMJ Quality & Safety aimed to integrate lessons from evaluations of the Health Foundation's improvement programmes with relevant literature. They argue that securing improvement may be hard and slow and faces many challenges, but formal evaluations assist in recognising the nature of these challenges and help in addressing them.