Report and Resource Library


In this section you can download reports that focus on improving patient safety and quality

VTE
  • Report of the Inaugural Global VYE Prevention Forum

    The Global VTE Prevention Forum (the Forum) has been established to address this significant patient safety challenge. It brings together clinicians and policy makers from across the world who have been leading on the development and implementation of VTE prevention protocols and policy within their home country. The Forum will provide a global platform to share learning and best practice, and to exchange views and information about effective prevention and management of VTE. It will provide leadership at a global level to improve patient care and reduce further avoidable deaths in hospitals through VTE prevention.

    The report of the Inaugural Global VTE Prevention Forum convened by the Japanese Patient Safety Campaign Partners and the NHS VTE Prevention Program in England is attached.
    Report of the Inaugural Global VYE Prevention Forum [download]
Managing Risk
  • The Higher Risk Surgical Patient: Improved Care for a Forgotten Group
    According to this report the NHS must address the significant variations in care experienced by the 170,000 patients who have major emergency abdominal surgery each year. Poorly designed hospital services, particularly access to emergency operating theatres and radiology treatment, are among the problems highlighted. It makes nine detailed recommendations which, if implemented within two years, will reduce complications and deaths, as well as reduce the cost of treating a group of patients who account for almost 90 per cent of post-operative general surgical deaths.
    The Higher Risk Surgical Patient: Improved Care for a Forgotten Group [download]

This section showcases models of care including evaluation studies of effectiveness
Integrated Care
  • Integrated Care. What is it? Does it work? What does it mean for the NHS?
    Written by Chris Ham and Natasha Curry for the Kings Fund, this paper looks of the evidence of impact for a variety of models of integrated care
    Integrated Care. What is it? Does it work? What does it mean for the NHS? [download]
Care Planning
  • Care Planning -Improving the Lives of People with Long Term Conditions
    Produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners UK, this document is for general practitioners and other member of the primary care team.  It promotes Care Planning as a way of working that improves outcomes and reduces costs in the longer term.  It focuses on supporting self management,  improving care for people with long term conditions and draws on the experience of previous successful and pilot programs.
    Care Planning -Improving the Lives of People with Long Term Conditions [download]
Hospital in the Home
  • Economic Analysis of Hospital in the Home
    Commissioned by the Hospital in the Home Society of Australasia, this is a Deloitte Access Economics reports on its investigation of the cost effectivness of Hospital in the Home care relative to hospital care
    Economic Analysis of Hospital in the Home [download]

 
Challenges for Innovators
  • Understanding innovators' experiences of barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations: a qualitative study
    This study published in BMC Health Services Research explores how health care innovators of process-based initiatives perceive factors that facilitate or obstruct innovation.  December 2011
    Understanding innovators' experiences of barriers and facilitators in implementation and diffusion of healthcare service innovations: a qualitative study [download]
Organisational Readiness
  • Organizational readiness for innovation in health care: some lessons from the recent literature

     Iestyn Williams, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.   

     


    Organizational readiness for innovation in health care: some lessons from the recent literature [download]
  • Innovation Uptake and Spread

    Understanding Whole Systems Change in Healthcare:The Case of Emerging Evidence-informed Nursing Service Delivery Models. Published September 2010 and released October 2011.

    Chief Investigators, Prof Nancy Edwards, University of Ontario and Doris Grinspun PhD, Registered Nurses Associate of Ontario, Canada report on their research program to improve understanding about the essential elements of innovation uptake and spread beyond a unit or organization to become system wide initiatives


    Understanding Whole Systems Change in Healthcare:The Case of Emerging Evidence-informed Nursing Service Delivery Models [download]

Hospital Efficiency
  • Can NHS Hospitals Do More With Less?

    This comprehensive report by Jeremy Hurst and Sally Williams of the Nuffield Trust seeks:

    to understand the factors that determine efficiency within hospitals; and,

    how hospital trusts can best make cost savings by improving efficiency, based on UK and international experience.

    January 2012


    Can NHS Hospitals Do More With Less? [download]
Activity Based Funding
  • Beyond the Hospital Walls. Activity Based Funding Versus Integrated Health Care Reform

    Authored by Marcy Cohen, Margaret McGregor, Iglika Ivanova and Chris Kinkaid for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, this study argues that the focus of Activity Based Funding introduced in British Columbia is too narrow to be able to control overall hospital costs while improving patient care. The report was released in January 2012


    Beyond the Hospital Walls. Activity Based Funding Versus Integrated Health Care Reform [download]