Identification of promising strategies to sustain improvements in hospital practice

"Certain post-implementation strategies are valuable in sustaining implementation successes achieved after joining a quality improvement collaborative."

Identification of promising strategies to sustain improvements in hospital practice: a qualitative case study
SMC Ament, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:641

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Leadership vacancies in the NHS

"Gaps in leadership result in part from the size and complexity of the NHS in England and the absence of a systematic approach at all levels to talent management, succession planning and leadership development."

Leadership vacancies in the NHS: What can be done about them?
A Janjua
The King's Fund
December 2014

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Managing quality in community health care services

"This paper reports on the findings from a small primary research study exploring how community health services providers define, measure, manage and improve the quality of care."

Managing quality in community health care services
C Foot, L Sonola, L Bennett, B Fitzsimons, V Raleigh, S Gregory
The King's Fund
December 2014

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Provider chains: lessons from other sectors

"Operating across multiple sites requires a shift to a management system with a corporate centre and outposts, rather than appending an acquired institution onto an existing organisation."

Provider chains: lessons from other sectors: A report for the Dalton review into new options for providers of NHS care
H Crump, N Edwards
December 2014

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Mergers in the NHS

"The introduction of competition into the provision of NHS-funded hospital care in England has meant that the work of NHS providers and commissioners has become increasingly exposed to competition regulation."

Mergers in the NHS: Lessons from the decision to block the proposed merger of hospitals in Bournemouth and Poole
E Spencelayh, J Dixon
December 2014

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Lessons for social policy and practice from NICE

"NICE-type bodies should listen to users and understand social values."

The NICE way: lessons for social policy and practice from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
F Ruiz, J Breckon
Alliance for Useful Evidence, National Institute for Health and Care, NESTA Excellence
October 2014

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Why we need local deals to save public services

"We found an intelligent programme of modernisation, pay restraint, cost reduction, better procurement, outsourcing, management reorganisations and service sharing."

Bolder, braver and better: why we need local deals to save public services
Service Transformation Challenge Panel
Public Service Transformation Network
November 2014

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