Embedding a culture of quality improvement

"This report explores the factors that have helped organisations to launch a quality improvement strategy, and the key enablers for sustaining a focus on continuous quality improvement."

Embedding a culture of quality improvement
J Jabbal
The King's Fund
November 2017

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Health economics: evidence resource

The "Health economics evidence resource" provides a summary of economic evidence underpinning public health interventions.The tool shows the key cost-effectiveness and return on investment evidence on activities in the public health grant.

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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.

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Public health interventions may offer society a return on investment

"Each £1 invested in public health interventions could offer an average return on investment to the wider health and social care economy of £14."

Public health interventions may offer society a return on investment of £14 for each £1 spent
NIHR Signal
July 2017

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Public spending: a brief introduction

"This note describes the different ways in which public spending is
categorised, and presents statistics and commentary on recent spending in each category."

Public spending: a brief introduction
P O'Brien
House of Commons Library
Briefing paper number 8046, 20 July 2017

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Decommissioning health care

"Decommissioning – defined as the planned process of removing, reducing or replacing health-care services – is an important component of current reforms in the NHS. This study aims to formulate theoretically grounded, evidence-informed guidance to support best practice in effective decommissioning of NHS services. Decommissioning is shaped by change management and implementation, evidence and information, and relationships and politics. We propose an expanded understanding, encompassing organisational and political factors, of how avoidance of loss affects the delivery of decommissioning programmes. Future work should explore the relationships between contexts, mechanisms and outcomes in decommissioning, develop the understanding of how loss affects decisions and explore the long-term impact of decommissioning and its impact on patient care and outcomes."

Decommissioning health care: identifying best practice through primary and secondary research a prospective mixed-methods study
I Williams, J Harlock, G Robert, R Mannion, S Brearley, K Hall
Health Services and Delivery Research, 2017, 5:22

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Towards affordable healthcare: Why effective innovation is key

"In this report, we look at one of the crucial pieces of the jigsaw – healthcare innovation. As one of the largest components of age-related public spending, healthcare is at the forefront of the challenge of ageing. While ensuring that we have a good healthcare system that requires continual improvements in the quality of services for users, it also requires improvements in the efficiency of the system to ensure its long run survival."

Towards affordable healthcare: Why effective innovation is key
SM Bamford, B Franklin, D Hochlaf, G Holley-Moore
International Longevity Centre - UK
June 2017

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