The Government’s white paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS focuses on continuously improving outcomes in healthcare and empowering clinicians to innovate and improve healthcare services
For more information including supplementary documentation, opinion and analysis, see NHS Evidence’s section on the white paper or the Department of Health’s website.
You may also be interested in the following QIPP case study films:
Improving efficiency in radiographer services at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
Reducing length of stay following orthopaedic surgery: the Conquest Hospital in Hastings
Regional Innovation Fund 2010
The SHA have opened the application process for this years Innovation Fund. Please see the guidance and application form. Funding is only for this financial year (from 1st November to 31st March) and has to impact upon Primary Care, Management of Long Term Conditions or Mental Health and Learning Disabilities.
The timescale for applications (deadline for submission is Friday 10th September) is tight and so if you have a bid you wish to submit please let David Furley have completed applications as soon as possible as they will need to be signed off by the Chief Executive prior to being submitted to the SHA.
The bidding process is simple initially but for the applications shortlisted will require a presentation at a Dragons' Den to determine which ones will be funded.
eQIPP website
NHS Improvement has a new website dedicated to the QIPP agenda.
Featured this month: Cancer
Living with and beyond cancer: The improvement story so far
Transforming Cancer Inpatient Care Programme. New publications include:
Consolidation Report (2009) - From testing to spread
An integrated approach: The transferability of the Winning Principles - [Sharing the learning] [Case Studies]
Presentations from the Annual National Transforming Inpatient Care Conference
Reducing medication errors
In 2009, the NPSA issued Safety in Doses: improving the use of medicines in the NHS after having received 74, 482 medication incident reports in 2007.
To reduce medication errors, you may find the following links useful:
- Applying Toyota production system techniques for medication delivery: improving hospital safety and efficiency
- Interruptions to nurses during medication administration: are there implications for the quality of patient care?
- Safer intensive care prescribing: engaging users in the implementation of an electronic prescribing system
- An interprofessional approach to improving paediatric medication safety
- Organization-wide adoption of computerized provider order entry systems: a study based on diffusion of innovations theory
- Exploring the factors contributing to drug errors and how to improve knowledge
- Following the patient journey to improve medicines management and reduce errors
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has tools and resources on reducing medication errors. Also see the NeLM for more information.
This month’s tool: Value Stream Mapping
This technique helps achieve service improvements by setting goals to improve service and reduce delays. Using this tool, a cross functional team can produce a visual map of the ‘current state', identifying all the steps in a patient's pathway, and then focus on the ‘future state' which often represents a significant change in the way the system currently operates.
The technique is described in more detail at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. Its Cytology improvement guide - achieving a 14 day turnaround time in cytology has case studies in which this technique is used in chapter 15.
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