Quality measures: bridging the cultural divide

"Reforms to the NHS in England, currently underway, that involve devolution of budgets to local clinical groups, and a stronger role for regulators, cannot succeed in establishing accountability for the assurance of the quality and safety of care, nor the stewardship of very large amounts of tax-payers’ money, without credible data."

Quality measures: bridging the cultural divide
LJ Donaldson, A Darzi
BMJ Quality and Safety, 21:969-972

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How to measure for improving outcomes

The King's Fund has produced two slide sets to help Clinical Commissioning Groups make the best use of measurement to support them to commission for improved outcomes.

How to measure for improving outcomes: a guide for commissioners
The King's Fund
August 2012

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