Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS

"Report from The King's Fund Leadership Review 2012."

Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS: together we can
The King's Fund
May 2012

Read more here.

Smart Guides to Engagement - more guides added

Three more guides have been added to the Smart Guides to Engagement series. Visit the original post to access the new guides.

Smart guides to engagement

These seven guides are the first in a series of ten Smart Guides to Engagement, and they have been co-produced by Patient and Public Engagement experts from several organisations with support from the Department of Health:

1. Get smart about engagement
2. Engagement for commissioning success
3. Working with lay members and patient representatives
4. Working with LINks and local HealthWatch
5. Practices and patient engagement
6. Listening, learning and responding
7. Community development - improving population health

Improving inpatient postnatal services

"A Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach was adopted to support a systems and process change to in-patient care and care on transfer home in a large district general hospital with around 6000 births a year."

Improving inpatient postnatal services: midwives views and perspectives of engagement in a quality improvement initiative
DE Bick, V Rose, A Weavers, J Wray, S Beake
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:293

Read more here.

3rd National Annual QIPP Symposium, 10 November 2011

The 3rd annual national QIPP symposium, Improving Outcomes through Innovative Partnerships, Quality, Productivity, and Value will cover:

• Support from GP Commissioners


• Strengthened public and patient, and local authority engagement


• Clarity on the clinical evidence base


• Consistency with current and prospective patient choice


• QIPP, Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention


• Secondary and Primary Care Integration


• Payment Tariffs and Care Pathway Development


• Transition how, when what, with whom

Date: 10 November 2011
Venue: BT Convention Centre, Liverpool



For full details and registration, visit the Symposium website or download the programme (PDF, 2.12 MB)

Are clinicians engaged in quality improvement?

"The active involvement of clinical staff is an essential component of quality improvement, yet systematic improvement initiatives in the NHS have not generally secured the full engagement of clinicians. In 2006, the Health Foundation commissioned a review seeking to clarify what is already known about the views of UK healthcare professionals in this area. This updated review builds on the findings of this earlier review and highlights how clinical engagement in improvement remains a complex, challenging issue."


Evidence: are clinicians engaged in quality improvement?
The Health Foundation
May 2011

Download the full review here (PDF, 970 K)

The Health Foundation

In the past year, The Health Foundation has published a number of relevant papers:

• Engaging communities for health improvement
• How do you get clinicians involved in quality improvement
• Implementing shared decision making in the UK
• Quality improvement made simple
• Snapshot: patient safety