Rapid impact assessment of The Productive Ward

"This Rapid Impact Assessment explores the efficiency and productivity improvements The Productive Ward programme can make across the NHS."

Rapid impact assessment of The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
January 2011

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United Kingdom (England) health system review

"The Health Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide a detailed description of a health system and of reform and policy initiatives in progress or under development in a specific country."

United Kingdom (England) health system review
Sean Boyle
Health Systems in Transition, 2011 13(1)
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

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High-value, cost-conscious health care

"This article discusses 3 key concepts for understanding how to assess the value of health care interventions."

High-value, cost-conscious health care: concepts for clinicians to evaluate the benefits, harms, and costs of medical interventions
DK Owens, A Qaseem, R Chou, P Shekelle
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2011, 154(6):174-180

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Can we save money by improving quality

"This paper uses research evidence to assess the contribution that quality-improvement can make as a central component of cost reduction."

Can we save money by improving quality
M Marshall, J Ovretveit
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2011, 20(4):293-296

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Many of the other articles in this issue focus on quality-improvement collaboratives.

Lessons from the Productive Ward

"Given the quality and cost challenge currently facing the NHS, it is critical that improvement programmes are implemented quickly, on a large-scale and assimilated and sustained in routine practice."

Implementing and sustaining change in the contemporary NHS: lessons from the Productive Ward
National Nursing Research Unit
March 2011

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Case studies: Safer Patients Initiative

To find out how the "Our Safer Patients Initiative" programme has been working, the Health Foundation has committed a number of case studies.

Safer Patients Initiative: case studies
The Health Foundation
March 2011

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Calculating the 2011-12 National Tariff

"The purpose of this guide is therefore to describe the iterations of the tariff calculation lifecycle, ie how the Department has calculated the 2011-12 mandatory national tariffs."

Step-by-step guide: Calculating the 2011-12 National Tariff
Department of Health
March 2011

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