How is the health and social care system performing?

"The Quarterly Monitoring Report combines publicly available data on selected NHS performance measures with views from a panel of NHS finance directors."

How is the health and social care system performing? Quarterly monitoring report
The King's Fund
June 2013

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Your health – your decision

"The aim of this publication is to spread the learning and the results from the AQuA workstream of the National QIPP Right Care Shared Decision Making Programme and to complement the wide range of resources that have been developed to support the continued embedding of Shared Decision Making so that more patients can benefit."

Your health – your decision
Advancing Quality Alliance Workstream, National Shared Decision-Making Programme
May 2013

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Implementation of nice guidance on venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis

"Our results show an improvement in the percentage of patients who are risk assessed for VTE across all hospitals."

The implementation of nice guidance on venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis: a before-after observational study to assess the impact on patient safety across four hospitals in England
AG Bateman, R Sheaff, S Child, O Boiko, OC Ukoumunne, T Nokes, A Copplestone, CA Gericke
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:203

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Implementation of a hospitalist programme in a community hospital

"Compared to traditional family physicians, hospitalists appear to improve measures of quality and resource utilization."

Does implementation of a hospitalist program in a Canadian community hospital improve measures of quality of care and utilization? an observational comparative analysis of hospitalists vs. traditional care providers
V Yousefi, CAKY Chong
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:204

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Understanding determinants of wait-time management success

"The main common factors influencing success at the contextual level were stakeholder engagement and strong funding, and at the organizational level, physician involvement, human resources capacity, and information management systems."

Toward systematic reviews to understand the determinants of wait time management success to help decision-makers and managers better manage wait times
MP Pomey, PG Forest, C Sanmartin, C DeCoster, N Clavel, E Warren, M Drew, T Noseworthy
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:61

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Patient involvement in quality improvement

"Hospital managers need to design and implement wider strategies to help their staff members recognize and value the contribution that patient involvement and patient experiences can make to the improvement of healthcare quality."

Investigating the use of patient involvement and patient experience in quality improvement in Norway: rhetoric or reality?
S Wiik, M Storm, K Aase, MT Gjestsen, M Solheim, S Harthug, G Robert, N Fulop
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:206

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Investment in patient information improves outcomes and reduces costs

"If we fail to provide patients with the information and support they need, we compromise all three dimensions of quality care – patient experience, patient safety and clinical effectiveness."

Making the case for information: the evidence for investing in high quality health information for patients and the public
Patient Information Forum
June 2013

Read the full report here or the executive summary here.

The Patient Information Forum has produced three summary briefings to accompany this report:

1. PiF Briefing Summary: Health information specialists 
2. PiF Briefing Summary: Policy makers and commissioners 
3. PiF Briefing Summary: Health professionals

Read a summary from the Commissioning Elf here.