Resources

Teams from North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston studied the causes of missed appointments in cardiology, discovering four key barriers.

Patients were at risk from delays receiving head and neck cancer diagnoses. This project reduced patients’ time to diagnosis from an average of 62 days to 28 days.

This project aimed to reduce the waiting times for patients living with complex pain management needs to access elective surgery safely and appropriately.

An initiative at UCLH used a systems-thinking approach and co-design with young people and clinicians to tackle high outpatient hospital appointment non-attendance rates among 16-to-24-year-olds.

A new urology services model successfully improved support for patients by providing care much earlier in the pathway in an enhanced primary care setting.

The first national forum for perioperative and prehabilitation care is looking at ways to better support patients before, during and following their treatment.

A team of researchers and clinicians is helping analysts and decision makers in in the NHS to realise the power of data through statistical process control.

A phased approach to improve access to services at NHS Surrey Heartlands Clinical Commissioning Group.