Improving healthcare quality in Europe

"Quality improvement initiatives take many forms, from the creation of standards for health professionals, health technologies and health facilities, to audit and feedback, and from fostering a patient safety culture to public reporting and paying for quality. For policy-makers who struggle to decide which initiatives to prioritise for investment, understanding the potential of different quality strategies in their unique settings is key.....This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies."

Improving healthcare quality in Europe: Characteristics, effectiveness and  implementation of different strategies
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
October 2019

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Lessons from Europe: assuring quality through regulation

"This Briefing highlights approaches to quality assurance taken in Germany and the Netherlands. It identifies lessons for NHS leaders and policymakers in England on how to approach the challenge of regulating effectively for quality, as the current regulatory system is being reconsidered."

Lessons from Europe: assuring quality through regulation
Health Services Research Network
NHS Confederation
October 2013

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NHS England: Improving A&E Performance Gateway ref: 00062

"Working closely with other key stakeholders, and building on the views already shared from CCGs and providers, NHS England will put in place an approach that will support the emergency and urgent care system, reduce pressure and ensure that patients do not have to wait longer than the agreed standards as identified in the NHS constitution and thus meet the national operating target of 95%."

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How to assure quality in the NHS

"In this paper, the authors set out their views on how the system of quality assurance, including regulation, needs to evolve, the principles on which it should be built and how it should operate."

Preparing for the Francis report: how to assure quality in the NHS
A Dixon, C Foot, T Harrison
The King's Fund
July 2012

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