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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NHS Performance Framework: implementation guidance

"The NHS Performance Framework sets out the Department's approach to identifying underperforming NHS organisations and stipulates when intervention should occur in such organisations."

NHS Performance Framework: implementation guidance
Department of Health
April 2012

Read the full document here together with accompanying documents.

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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Caring for our future: what service users say

"The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) commissioned this paper as part of its programme on paying for long-term care, which aims to influence the funding and creation of a better system for adult social care in the UK."

Caring for our future: what service users say
P Beresford, E Andrews
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
March 2012
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Cholecystectomy services redesign: reducing length of stay in hospital

"The benefit of reducing the length of stay by 1 day for patients undergoing laparascopic cholecystectomy saves more than 17,000 bed days across the NHS."

Cholecystectomy services redesign: reducing length of stay in hospital
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
March 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

Infection: prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in primary and community care

"Patient safety has become a cornerstone of care, and preventing healthcare-associated infections remains a priority."

Infection: prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in primary and community care
NICE clinical guideline 139
March 2012

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