Document of the Week (13th May): The Power of Video Recording. Taking Quality to the Next Level

This JAMA article discusses whether the video recording of medical procedures can improve quality of care.

Monday May 13th, 2013

Report captures critical lessons and translates them into messages that are relevant to new commissioners

This NHS Confederation report explores the achievements and challenges experienced over more than a decade of NHS commissioning

Thursday April 25th, 2013

Assessing the quality of NHS hospitals

This research is the first ever overall assessment of NHS hospital quality and contributes to the debate about how best to measure quality

Monday March 18th, 2013

Document of the Week (25th Feb): The association between health care quality and cost – a systematic review.

This review found that evidence of the direction of association between cost and quality in health care is inconsistent

Tuesday February 26th, 2013

Determinants of success of quality improvement collaboratives: what does the literature show?

This review describes potential determinants of team success and how they relate to effectiveness.

Tuesday February 12th, 2013

How commissioners negotiate, specify, monitor and manage contractual mechanisms to improve services and allocate financial risk – a survey

PRUComm study of the use of contractual mechanisms in commissioning

Tuesday February 5th, 2013

How blood sciences teams used lean methodology to improve quality, delivery and effiicency

This NHS Improvement report shows how how multidisciplinary teams worked collaboratively to achieve improvements to support QIPP

Thursday January 31st, 2013

Quality in the new health system: maintaining and improving quality from April 2013

NHS Commissioning Board report on how the new system should prevent, identify and respond to serious failures in quality

Monday January 28th, 2013

Document of the Week (10th Dec): A decade of austerity?

This report highlights the funding challenges facing the NHS and social care system in England over the next decade

Tuesday December 11th, 2012

Document of the Week (3rd December): Quality measures: bridging the cultural divide

This viewpoint from Liam Donaldson and Ara Darzi, discusses the importance of measuring and collecting good quality healthcare data

Tuesday December 4th, 2012

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