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The Health Foundation policy team carried out this project to communicate clear recommendations for enabling successful change in the NHS, grounded in the UK’s experience of what has gone before, where the NHS is now, and the principles of quality improvement.

A report of the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute's roundtable on consumer engagement in patient safety.  This US based report looks at how increasing engagement between those who provide care and those who receive it at every level can result in improved health care outcomes for individuals and safer and more productive work environments for healthcare professionals. 

As cancer care becomes inundated with cutting edge and novel treatments, such as personalised medicine, oral chemotherapy, biosimilars, and immunotherapy, new safety challenges are emerging at increasing speed and complexity. 

This paper, by the King's Fund, argues that the NHS in England cannot meet the healthcare needs of the population without a sustained and comprehensive commitment to quality improvement as its principal strategy.

Patient-controlled personal health records facilitate coordinated management of chronic disease through improved communications among, and about, patients across professional and organisational boundaries. An NHS foundation trust hospital has used 'Patients Know Best' (PKB) to support self-management in patients with inflammatory bowel disease; this paper published in Digital Health presents a case study of usage.

Presentation by Andrew Brent (Sepsis Clinical Lead, Oxford AHSN & Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) and Bethan Page (Oxford AHSN) in collaboration with Dr Matt Inada-Kim (Wessex AHSN).

The “WHO handbook for national quality policy and strategy” outlines an approach for the development of national policies and strategies to improve the quality of care. Such policy and strategy can help clarify the structures, roles and responsibilities within national quality efforts, support the institutionalisation of a culture of quality, and secure buy-in from health system leaders and stakeholders. The handbook is not a prescriptive process guide but is designed to support teams developing policies and strategies in this area, and very much recognizes the varied expertise, experience and resources available to countries. It outlines eight essential elements to be considered by teams developing national quality policy and strategy: national health goals and priorities; local definition of quality; stakeholder mapping and engagement; situational analysis; governance and organizational structure; improvement methods and interventions; health management information systems and data systems; quality indicators and core measures. The NQPS handbook was co-developed with countries each finding themselves at different stages of the development and execution of national quality policies and strategies and was informed by the review of a sample of more than 20 existing quality strategies across low-, middle- and high-income countries globally.