Proactive approaches to safety management

This paper offers some practical suggestions for proactively managing safety.

Proactive approaches to safety management
E Hollnagel
The Health Foundation
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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How can leaders influence a safety culture?

"The systematic delivery of safe and reliable care requires a safety culture, continuous learning, and improvement."

How can leaders influence a safety culture?
M Leonard, A Frankel
The Health Foundation
May 2012

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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

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Health care leader action guide to effectively using HCAHPS

"HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data) is a tool that can be used to help organizations improve the patient experience, and may have a related effect on clinical quality."

Health care leader action guide to effectively using HCAHPS
Health Research and Educational Trust
March 2012

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Creating a culture of sustainability

"Sustainability offers a way to connect employers with their employees and communities in a powerful way."

Creating a culture of sustainability: leadership, coordination and performance measurement decisions in healthcare
T Boone
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
April 2012

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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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Improving safety in maternity services

Improving safety in maternity services: a toolkit for teams, has been developed by Vinice Thomas and Anna Dixon at The King's Fund, and is organised around five key areas for improvement in maternity care on which the teams focused:

• teamworking
• communication
• training
• information and guidance
• staffing and leadership

Medical Leadership Competency Framework - self-assessment tool

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has developed a new version of the self assessment tool, which is linked to the Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF), for doctors and medical students to review their leadership skills.

Access the tool here.

Critical success factors that enable individuals to die in their preferred place of death

"The main aim of this work was to try to identify the factors that influenced increases in numbers of people being able to die in their preferred place of death, which can largely be assumed to be outside of acute hospital settings, but is not always."

Critical success factors that enable individuals to die in their preferred place of death
National End of Life Care Programme
February 2012

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Delivering the Information Revolution

"A framework for delivering the Information Revolution."

Delivering the Information Revolution: from vision to reality
SK Patel, S Ash
Public Sector Research Centre
Price Waterhouse Coopers
November 2011

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Leadership and management for all doctors

"This guidance sets out the wider management and leadership responsibilities of doctors in the workplace."

Leadership and management for all doctors
General Medical Council
January 2012

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Improving health and health care in London

"This paper reviews the progress made in improving health and health care in London in recent years and analyses the financial and service challenges facing the National Health Service (NHS) now and in the future."

Improving health and health care in London: who will take the lead?
J Appleby, C Ham, C Imison, T Harrison, S Boyle, B Ashton, J Thompson
The King's Fund
November 2011

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What makes a top hospital? Leadership

"To improve the efficacy of the NHS, good leaders will have to encourage staff to make sure that patients themselves can add value to their care."

What makes a top hospital? Leadership
P Robinson, J Tyndale-Biscoe
CHKS - part of the Capita Group
November 2011

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The Network - connect people, share knowledge, improve care

The Network is an online community and network for medical students, junior doctors and newly qualified consultants and GPs with an interest in clinical leadership and medical management.

Read more here or go straight to The Network.

What's leadership got to do with it?

"Investing in leadership development of mid-career health professionals with significant leadership potential leads to a sustainable impact on the quality of health care quality; the impact achieved represents a good return on the investment made."

What's leadership got to do with it? Exploring links between quality improvement and leadership in the NHS
The Health Foundation
January 2011

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Leading for outcomes

"This guide aims to provide support on how to lead teams in the adoption and implementation of an outcomes-focused approach."

Leading for outcomes: a guide
Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services
2010

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