Resources

Q member Jenny Morton tells us about a project in Sheffield that is working with service users to improve local mental health services and has been shortlisted for the Seni Lewis award.

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.

Here we share a selection of podcasts from some of those exploring improvement in health and care.

A collection of resources, articles and groups on AI and quality improvement.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has empowered frontline staff to improve patient safety with a dashboard that brings safety metrics into one place.

The Joy in Work project aimed to enhance the fulfilment of health care staff through virtual sessions on quality improvement, collaboration, and work-life balance.

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