Improvement & Quality Improvement (QI)

NHS IMPACT

NHS IMPACT (Improving Patient Care Together) is the single, shared NHS improvement approach. It aims to “create the right conditions for continuous improvement and high performance, so systems and organisations can respond to today’s challenges, deliver better care for patients and give better outcomes for communities“. 

NHS IMPACT’s five components underpin a systematic approach that includes:

  1. Building a shared purpose and vision
  2. Investing in people and culture
  3. Developing leadership behaviours
  4. Building improvement capability and capacity
  5. Embedding improvement into management systems and processes

To find out more, including improvement guides, case studies and improvement events, visit: NHS England – NHS IMPACT

You can also subscribe to the NHS IMPACT bulletin: NHS IMPACT (Improving Patient Care Together) bulletin

IMPACT

IMPACT (Improving Adult Care Together) is the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care. Its mission is to “Work across the four nations and with co-production at its heart, draw on insights from research, lived experience, and practice knowledge to make a difference to front-line services, and to people’s lives.”

IMPACT works with four different types of projects:

  • Demonstrators: Major strategic issues and long-term change
  • Facilitators: Bottom-up change projects in local services
  • Networks: Bringing local people together to work on practical changes
  • Ask IMPACT: Accessible guides and resources

To find out more about IMPACT’s projects and resources, visit: IMPACT – UK Centre to Improve Adult Social Care – IMPACT

NIHR Implementation, knowledge mobilisation and impact: A cross-ARC guide

The implementation, knowledge mobilisation and impact cross-ARC guide signposts to variety of resources created either by one of the Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) or by their funder the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). 

The guide has two sections:

  1. I’m new to this, I’d like an introduction : Provides introductory resources for implementation, knowledge mobilisation and impact. This includes definitions of knowledge mobilisation, implementation science, implementation practice and impact.
  2. I’ve got the basics, I want to develop my knowledge and skills further : Provides resource collections, videos, documents, toolkits and guides organised into different topic areas related to implementation, knowledge mobilisation and impact.

For an overview, visit: Implementation, knowledge mobilisation and impact: A cross-ARC guide

Co-production impact: A resource to support impact assessment

Co-production impact: A resource to support impact assessment was produced by The Social Care Institute for Excellence. It is designed to “provide insights into how to identify the difference that co-production is making in your work…it is designed to support co-production groups, social care workers, and organisations who want to demonstrate the impact of co-production and who want to facilitate the impact assessment process with people with lived experience”. 

To find out more, visit: Co-production impact: A resource to support impact assessment – SCIE

Quality, Service Improvement and Redesign (QSIR)

Quality, Service Improvement and Redesign (QSIR) are a set of programmes designed for health and care staff. They aim to:

Provide a platform for NHS organisations and systems to build improvement capability at scaleThe QSIR programmes are delivered in a variety of formats to suit different levels of improvement experience and are supported by publications that guide participants in the use of tried and tested improvement tools, and featured approaches, as well as encouraging reflective learning.”

An extensive list of quality, service improvement and redesign tools, theories and techniques can be accessed via the QSIR website: Quality, service improvement and redesign (QSIR) Tools – Aqua

Quality improvement made simple

Quality improvement made simple is a quick guide to quality improvement published by The Health Foundation in 2021: Quality improvement made simple | The Health Foundation