The problem with Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles

"To be successful, the use of PDSA must be supported by a significant investment in leadership, expertise and resources for change."

The problem with Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles
JE Reed, AJ Card
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2016, 25:147-52

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The open data era in health and social care

This is "a blueprint for the National Health Service (NHS England) to develop a research and learning programme for the open data era in health and social care."

The open data era in health and social care
S Verhulst, BS Noveck, R Caplan, K Brown, C Paz
NHS England
June 2014

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A framework for measuring and monitoring safety

"The purpose of this Practical guide is to support NHS organisations to apply a framework for measuring and monitoring safety."

Practical guide: a framework for measuring and monitoring safety
The Health Foundation
April 2014

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Skilled for improvement?

"Part of the reason why quality improvement is so hard to achieve may be that those involved in leading QI programmes need to deploy three different but interrelated types of improvement skills: technical, soft and learning skills."

Skilled for improvement?
The Health Foundation
March 2014

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Features of effective medical knowledge resources to support point of care learning

"We identified nine features that influence users' selection of knowledge resources, namely efficiency (with sub-features of comprehensiveness, searchability, and brevity), integration with clinical workflow, credibility, user familiarity, capacity to identify a human expert, reflection of local care processes, optimization for the clinical question (e.g., diagnosis, treatment options, drug side effect), currency, and ability to support patient education."

Features of effective medical knowledge resources to support point of care learning: a focus group study
DA Cook, KJ Sorensen, W Hersh, RA Berger, JM Wilkinson
PLOS One, 25th November 2013

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Critical learning from four different systems for the successful integration of social care and health services

"This paper seeks to clarify the central contribution of social services to delivering change based on best research and practice knowledge as part of an integrated service."

Four Nations United: Critical learning from four different systems for the successful integration of social care and health services
Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
October 2013

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Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and Learning

The Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust publishes an academic journal, the Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and Learning, in both print and electronic format. The electronic version is freely available on their website at this link:

The content is grouped under the following headings:

• Research reports
• Education and learning
• Quality/organisational change
• Reflective practice/case studies

CCG learning and support tool

"A comprehensive, new CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) learning and support web tool has been published to support CCGs as they prepare for authorisation, the clinical leadership of commissioning and their development beyond authorisation."

Find out more and access the tool here.

Paving the way

"High quality education and learning are critical to the delivery of excellence in health and social care, and this is now seen as a core part of NHS business."

Paving the way
Royal Society for Public Health
January 2012

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Nurturing collaborative practice

"Interprofessional collaborative practice has been seen as an enabler for improving patient care and meeting the current demands on the healthcare system."

South Eastern Interprofessional Collaborative Learning Environment (SEIPCLE): nurturing collaborative practiceV Byrnes, A O'Riordan, C Schroder, C Chapman, J Medves, M Paterson, R Grigg
Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education, 2012, 2.2

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