Case study: Strategic quality improvement: An action learning approach

"Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is an established, high-performing organisation, which was already investing in a culture of continuous improvement of quality. Its willingness to embark on this action learning process reinforces its commitment to being a learning organisation. We believe that through sharing this case study and the action learning process we co-created with Oxleas other NHS organisations can gain insight into their own approaches to quality improvement."

Strategic quality improvement: An action learning approach
V Nath
The King's Fund
May 2016

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Translation of cancer research

"This service configuration case study shows that the gains actually realised in the NHS may differ from those observed in trials – in this particular instance suggesting a situation where trial gains may underestimate what is now being achieved, though the reverse may be true in other cases."

Investigating time lags and attribution in the translation of cancer research: A case study approach
S Guthrie, S Hanney, J Grant
RAND Europe
2014

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Managing patients with complex needs: London case study

"On both human and economic terms, supporting people the NHS has too often failed is an affordable and effective investment."

Managing patients with complex needs: evaluation of the City and Hackney Primary Care Psychotherapy Consultation Service
M Parsonage, E Hard, B Rock
Centre for Mental Health
April 2014

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The work of commissioning: a multisite case study of healthcare commissioning in England's NHS

"Commissioners adopting an incremental approach to service change in defined and manageable areas of work appeared to be more successful in terms of delivering planned changes in service delivery than those attempting to bring about wide-scale change across complex systems."

The work of commissioning: a multisite case study of healthcare commissioning in England's NHS
SE Shaw, JA Smith, A Porter, R Rosen, N Mays
BMJ Open, 2013, 3:e003341

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Co-ordinated care in primary mental health

"This case study is part of a research project undertaken by The King’s Fund and funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation in the USA to compare five successful UK-based models of care co-ordination."

The Esteem Team: Co-ordinated care in the Sandwell Integrated Primary Care Mental Health and Wellbeing Service
V Thiel, L Sonola, N Goodwin, DL Kodner
The King's Fund
August 2013

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