Quality, innovation and value in cardiac rehabilitation

"This resource will help to guide commissioners and providers through real examples of what works and to save others from reinventing the wheel."

Quality, innovation and value in cardiac rehabilitation: commissioning for improvement
NHS Improvement
May 2012

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Reinventing healthcare delivery

"High quality care and great performance involves leaders making problem solving, improvement, and innovation part of the regular routine of daily practice."

Reinventing healthcare delivery
S Spear
The Health Foundation
May 2012

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Improving general practice by working differently

"The focus of this report is on the general practice as a provider of primary care services, and while it is based on the English NHS, many of the solutions could apply equally to general practice in the rest of the United Kingdom."

Primary Care: Today and Tomorrow - Improving general practice by working differently
Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
May 2012

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An outcomes strategy for COPD and asthma

"The Outcomes Strategy for COPD and Asthma showed the Government’s commitment to improving services for people with respiratory disease, as well as providing high-quality care that is safe, effective and responsive to the needs of individuals in streamlined services delivered closer to home.
This NHS Companion Document is a key part of the suite of tools and resources planned to help support different parts of the system implement the Outcomes Strategy."

An outcomes strategy for COPD and asthma: NHS companion document
Department of Health
May 2012

Read the outcomes strategy here and the companion document here.

Uncovering middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation

"As middle managers’ responsibility in healthcare organizations increases, their potential influence over innovation implementation grows."

Uncovering middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation
SA Birken, SYD Lee, BJ Weiner
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:28

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Management roles in innovative technology implementation: a healthcare perspective

"In a healthcare empirical context, we show that lack of top management vision and coordination leads to local units that are excessively autonomous in some respects, hindering knowledge and information transfer within the organisation."

Management roles in innovative technology implementation: a healthcare perspective
Centre for Strategic Innovation Research Electronic Working Paper Series: Paper no. 2012/2
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
2012

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Get e-QIPP-ed for neurology

"This booklet illustrates examples of innovative service delivery, prevention of unnecessary interventions, and initiatives that simultaneously improve service efficiency and cost effectiveness alongside quality of patient care."

Get e-QIPP-ed for neurology: positive practice in service redesign
Neurological Commissioning Support Limited
March 2012

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Reducing prescribing errors

"The scan provides a rapid collation of empirical research about initiatives to reduce prescribing errors."

Evidence scan: reducing prescribing errors
Health Foundation
March 2012

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Uncovering middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation

"Because middle managers oversee these team initiatives, their potential to influence innovation implementation has grown."

Uncovering middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation
SA Birken, S-Y Daniel Lee, BJ Weiner
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:28

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Producing synergy in collaborations

"This paper describes a Norwegian hospital’s nutrition innovation that enhanced collaboration across and within the hospital hierarchy."

Producing synergy in collaborations: a successful hospital innovation
L Corwin, JH Corbin, MB Mittelmark
The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, 2012, 17(1):5

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How quality improvement collaboratives shape practice change

"QICs offer a potentially powerful way of disseminating health care innovations through enhanced strategies for learning and change."

More black box to explore: How quality improvement collaboratives shape practice change
EK Shaw, SM Chase, J Howard, PA Nutting, BF Crabtree
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 25(2):149-157

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An economic case for involvement

"Meaningful involvement and shared decision making with patients and the public is a key enabler to improvements in quality, innovation, productivity and performance."

An economic case for involvement
InHealth Associates, Frontline, Department of Health
March 2012

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Access the free decision support tool here.

Health policy and systems research

"The Reader provides guidance on the defining features of HPSR and the critical steps in conducting research in this field."

Health policy and systems research: A methodology
Edited by Lucy Gilson
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization
2012

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Opening up healthcare innovation

"Innovative solutions for a 21st century healthcare system."

Opening up healthcare innovation
J Bessant, C Kunne, K Moslein
Advanced Institute of Management Research
February 2012

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Competition in the NHS

"The NHS is far from being a competition-free zone, but the extent of competition remains confined to a minority of the services provided to NHS patients."

Competition in the NHS
Office of Health Economics Commission
January 2012

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Genomic technology in healthcare

"This report sets out a strategic vision for how the healthcare system in the UK – and particularly in the NHS – can benefit from the mainstream adoption of genomic technology."

Building on our inheritance: genomic technology in healthcare
Human Genomics Strategy Group
January 2012

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Review of Innovation in the NHS

This report is a summary of the responses received in response to the Department of Health Call for Evidence and Ideas about how the adoption and diffusion of innovations can be accelerated across the NHS.

NHS Chief Executive’s Review of Innovation in the NHS Summary of the responses to the Call for Evidence and Ideas
Young Foundation
December 2011

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Cochrane quality and productivity topics

As part of the NHS Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) agenda, NICE and the UK Cochrane Centre are working together to summarise new Cochrane reviews which have shown that an intervention is either unsafe or cost ineffective.

Published each month, the Cochrane Quality and Productivity Topics “highlight potential disinvestment opportunities that can be used by the NHS to meet its overall QIPP targets, and include calculations of potential cost savings if implemented.”

Access the collection here.

Barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations

"The purpose of the present study was to explore how healthcare innovators of process-based initiatives perceived and made sense of factors that either facilitated or obstructed the innovation implementation and diffusion."

Understanding innovators' experiences of barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations: a qualitative study
J Barnett, K Vasileiou, F Djemil, L Brooks, T Young
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:342

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The quest for efficiency in the English NHS

"A competitive, flexible approach to health care delivery will promote innovation, making it possible to learn from health care providers that adopt diferent approaches to delivery."

Competition, integration and incentives: the quest for efficiency in the English NHS
AM Garber
The Nuffield Trust
December 2011

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