NHS efficiency map

The HFMA and NHS Improvement have worked in partnership to update and revise the NHS efficiency map. The map is a tool that promotes best practice in identifying, delivering and monitoring cost improvement programmes (CIPs) in the NHS. The map contains links to a range of tools and guidance to help NHS bodies improve their efficiency. The map is split into three sections: enablers for efficiency, provider efficiency and system efficiency.

Access the map here.

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

Read more here.

The cost of the cuts: a social impact tool for local authorities

"A major research project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has catalogued and explored the implications of local council savings over the past five years. The aim of the project was to analyse the extent to which the range of measures – activities focused on reducing future needs and costs, reductions in services, changes in eligibility thresholds and consolidations of facilities – has impacted on poorer groups of service users. The result is a social impact tool which enables councils in England and Scotland to replicate a key part of the quantitative analysis undertaken for the study. This user guide introduces that social impact tool."

The cost of the cuts: a social impact tool for local authorities: User guide
A Hastings, N Bailey, G Bramley, M Gannon, D Watkins
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
October 2015

Read more here.

Estimating NHS and social care spend: a tool for commissioners

"This tool estimates how a local care economy spends its money by age group, patient group and care settings."

Estimating NHS and social care spend: a tool for commissioners
Monitor
September 2014

Access the tools here.

Commissioning for outcomes

"The purpose of this document from the Quality and Outcomes Working Group is to stimulate discussion amongst Clinical Commissioning Group members on the practical tools we now require to be developed for all 211 CCGs, as well the barriers that need to be removed, to support our commissioning for outcomes."

Commissioning for outcomes: A narrative from and for clinical commissioners
NHS Commissioning Assembly
June 2014

Read more here.

Patient Engagement Resource Hub

The Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement has created this Hub, which contains a resources and tools to support patient engagement and quality improvement. Find out more here.

Helping measure person-centred care

"This rapid review signposts to research about commonly used approaches and tools to help measure person-centred care. It aims to showcase the many tools available for those working in policy and practice."

Helping measure person-centred care
D de Silva
The Health Foundation
March 2014

Read more here.

Access the measurement tools here.

NHS Right Care videos on commissioning

NHS Right Care has created four new videos to support commissioning:

1. Integrating Hub/Prime Vendor
2. Commissioning for Value Deep Dives
3. Value Based Guidance for Elective Surgery
4. Data Tools for Commissioners and Surgeons

Access the four videos via the NHS Right Care Resource Centre.

Quality Compass

Health Quality Ontario's Knowledge Transfer and Exchange strategy has produced the Quality Compass, a comprehensive evidence-informed searchable tool to help leaders and providers improve health care performance in Ontario. The Quality Compass contains:

• best practices
• change ideas linked with indicators
• targets and measures
• tools and resources

Access the Quality Compass here.

National Surgical Commissioning Centre

"The National Surgical Commissioning Centre (NSCC) is a web-based source of practical information, guidance,  advice and support for commissioners of surgical services."

Resources include data tools, national commissioning guides, regional support, and standards and policy. Access the Centre here.

Instruments for assessing the risk of falls in acute hospitalized patients

"The STRATIFY scale was found to be the best tool for assessing the risk of falls by hospitalized acutely-ill adults."

Instruments for assessing the risk of falls in acute hospitalized patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
M Aranda-Gallardo, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:122

Read more here.

Tools for continuous quality improvement

This set of tools has been provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and encourage feedback on whether they are helpful for research.

Access the tools here  (free registration is required).

Diabetes Outcomes Versus Expenditure Tool (DOVE)

The Diabetes Outcomes Versus Expenditure (DOVE) tool allows users to compare expenditure on diabetes care with clinical outcomes for a selected Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), other CCGs with similar populations and all other CCGs.

Access the DOVE tool here.

Spread and Adoption Tool

Developed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, this tool helps health professionals increase the scale and pace of the spread and adoption of innovation in the NHS.

Access the tool here.

NICE Pathways: guidance at your fingertips

"NICE Pathways is an online tool provides quick and easy access, topic by topic, to the range of guidance from NICE, including quality standards, technology appraisals, clinical and public health guidance and NICE implementation tools."

Access the pathways here.

Health care leader action guide to effectively using HCAHPS

"HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems data) is a tool that can be used to help organizations improve the patient experience, and may have a related effect on clinical quality."

Health care leader action guide to effectively using HCAHPS
Health Research and Educational Trust
March 2012

Read more here.

Medical Leadership Competency Framework - self-assessment tool

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has developed a new version of the self assessment tool, which is linked to the Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF), for doctors and medical students to review their leadership skills.

Access the tool here.

Guide to using quality improvement tools to drive clinical audits

"The guide describes how quality improvement approaches can be applied to clinical audit and specific QI tools that can contribute to the clinical audit process and when to use them."

Guide to using quality improvement tools to drive clinical audits
N Dixon, M Pearce
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
October 2011

Read more here.

Self management support resource centre

This self management support area has been developed by The Health Foundation, to support healthcare professionals, service managers and commissioners develop their understanding of self management support.

Find out more here.