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Sustainability in quality improvement: measuring impact
(2018-06)
Sustainable value’ considers patient and population
outcomes against environmental, social and economic costs
or impacts, providing a framework for driving sustainable
improvements in healthcare for current and ...
Wellbeing Wednesdays: nurse-led clinic for improving physical health care in a general adolescent inpatient unit
(2020-02)
Background: Young people with mental illness are at high risk of physical health complications. Physical healthcare on a general adolescent inpatient unit is complex.
Aim: To establish a wellbeing clinic to improve ...
Applying the triple bottom line of sustainability to healthcare research—a feasibility study
(2019-05)
The triple bottom line (TBL) of sustainability is an important emerging conceptual framework which considers the combined economic, environmental and social impacts of an activity. Despite its clear relevance to the ...
Building improvement capacity in mental health services
(2020-10)
Improving the delivery of existing treatment may often bring much greater benefits than developing new treatments and technologies. To achieve this, clinical teams and organisations need to build capacity for sustained and ...
Absconding: reducing failure to return in adult mental health wards
(2016-11)
Failing to return from leave from acute psychiatric wards can have a range of negative consequences for patients, relatives and staff. This study used quality improvement methodology to improve the processes around patient ...
Building improvement capability in frontline staff: a UK perspective
(2020-06)
This paper gives a narrative account of how the Oxford Healthcare Improvement Centre has embedded continuous quality improvement (CQI) across both mental health and community services in Oxford, UK. The aim of the centre ...
Stroke rehabilitation service quality improvement plan - a tale of two towns
(2019-01)
Purpose: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) committed to a Stroke Quality Improvement (QI) Project to enhance the quality of rehabilitation for patients on the Oxfordshire Stroke Pathway. Following poor performance ...
Co-Producing an Organisation's Quality Improvement Method: No Decision about Me, without Me
(2022-12)
This multi-authored book provides expert descriptions of Lean methods and their application in healthcare, written by the people who developed and tested the methods in healthcare settings.Each chapter brings together a ...