... service Assurance Quality improvement Compliance Being one of the largest institutions of public expenditure in the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) is under increasing pressure for accountability (Donaldson, 2001 ; Merali, 2009). There is also an increasing demand for care from an ageing...

...Jennifer Martin; Zuneera Khurshid; Gemma Moore; Michael Carton; John J. Fitzsimons; Colm Henry; Maureen A. Flynn Purpose This paper describes a quality improvement project to improve oversight of quality at national board level using statistical process control (SPC) methods, complimented...

... Social or mental health issues Quality improvement COVID-19 Relations Healthcare quality Healthcare practitioners Health professions’ outbreak response Resilience Self-efficacy COVID-19 put global healthcare systems to a test and healthcare practitioners in the frontline when delivering...

...Jennifer Martin; Maureen A. Flynn; Zuneera Khurshid; John J. Fitzsimons; Gemma Moore; Philip Crowley Purpose The purpose of this study is to present a quality improvement approach titled “Picture-Understanding-Action” used in Ireland to enhance the role of healthcare boards in the oversight...

... and homecare Leadership Patient safety Quality improvement Research exploring quality and safety healthcare interventions often appears straight forward, well planned and executed, and managing all eventualities (Aase et al., 2021). However, it is often challenging to translate research...

...Owen P. O'Sullivan; Nynn Hui Chang; Philip Baker; Amar Shah Purpose East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is a major provider of mental healthcare and community health services. Quality improvement (QI) has become central to its organisational policy and goals for which it has received national...

... and Quality Improvement Authority who inspect the 206 nursing and 182 residential care homes in Northern Ireland. A brief evaluation survey, including response to a case vignette, gathered inspectors' views after using the tools for six months. Findings Eight two-dimensional Scaled Inspection Tools were...

... with physical restraint; however, when physical restraint was used, there was limited use of staff debriefs to facilitate reflection- and work-based learning. A potential diagnostic link to the likelihood of use of prone position restraint was also a finding. The results of a quality improvement project...

... Publishing Limited 2015 Clinical effectiveness Clinical governance Healthcare quality Patient perspectives Quality improvement Nurses Emergency surgery is costly to both patients and hospitals. Cost to patients includes unnecessary admission, delayed discharge or inappropriate early...

... a positive response from both staff and patients and illustrates the potential benefits relating to clinical quality. Dr Jaspreet Phull can be contacted at: jsphull@yahoo.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Clinical effectiveness Patient safety Psychiatry Quality improvement...

... on quality (El-Jardali et al., 2008). In addition, the role of the nursing team in the accreditation involves care, administrative, educational and research issues (Manzo et al., 2012). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Quality improvement Accreditation Patient...

... associations and federal sections of the Austrian General Medical Council. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Austria Evidence‐based medicine Evidence‐based practice Medical guidelines Quality improvement Over the course of this underlying empirical study, we are dealing...

... opportunities to inform future approaches to health informatics educational programmes. Originality/value With regard to topicality, it is suggested that many of the developmental issues highlighted during the establishment of quality improvement programmes within primary care organisations (PCGs/PCTs...

... orthopedic programs, the hospitals do want to share information with each other and the nursing homes to improve the transfer process and the care for patients in their new settings. Collaboration Quality improvement Patient care Outcomes A significant challenge to effective and meaningful...

... to shift all cultural elements of SQUH staff, system and activities towards addressing the goal of safety, SQUH has brought on a safety culture by holistic and systemic approach to quality improvement. Illustrated herein is the journey of how the hospital is addressing and measuring the goal of safety...

... stakeholders. Rita L. Ratcliffe can be contacted at: DrRitaMedEx@aol.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Health services Hospitals Quality improvement Patient care United States of America On September 26, 2008, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved...

..., but is limited in size. Practical implications Integrating clinical audit and peer feedback with continuing professional development obligations may facilitate greater engagement and more effective quality improvement, but will require a policy change and additional resource. Originality/value This small...

...David Birnbaum; Rita L. Ratcliffe Purpose This paper seeks to describe a recent impasse resulting from failure of a federal oversight agency to distinguish between observational studies documenting the impact of quality improvement activities versus experimental clinical trials research. Design...

...Frederick H. Konteh; Russell Mannion; Huw T.O. Davies Purpose The purpose of this paper, based on a nation‐wide survey, is to explore how clinical governance managers in the English NHS are seeking to engage with the culture(s) of their organisation to support quality improvement. Design...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Innovation Quality improvement Continuous improvement National Health Service United Kingdom For health services to be the best that they can be, we need to continually improve and develop them by testing and implementing new ideas and approaches to service...