The redesign of clinical pathways have the potential to improve the quality of patient care and do so in a productive way. This document has just been published by NHS Improvement.
The best of clinical pathway redesign - practical examples delivering benefits to patients
You may also find these resources from the NHS Institute useful:
Mapping the Last Ten Patients
By mapping patient journeys, you can find out what is really happening to patients along their journey. It may expose differences in practice or workload which can cause variation and unnecessary delay. Tackling these can reduce referral to treatment time.
Co-ordinate the Surgical Pathway
For optimising the use of theatre, surgical and anaesthetic time to maximise throughput without affecting the safety of patients.
There are also have some tools developed by NHS Trusts around the country, which may help when redesigning clinical pathways for specific conditions.
Also see:
Reducing clinical variations with clinical pathways: do pathways work?
Queensland Health’s A Toolkit for Developing a Clinical Pathway