In easy-to-read, user-friendly language, Preventing Hospital Infections leads readers through a step-by-step description of a quality improvement intervention as it might unfold in a model hospital, pinpointing the likely obstacles and offering practical strategies for how to surmount them. The text draws on the extensive personal clinical experience of the authors, including examples, anecdotes, and down-to-earth, practical guidance.
For nearly ten years, the Health Foundation has been working with the NHS to deliver improvement through service and staff development programmes. In a unique contribution to advancing the field of improvement, the Health Foundation has ensured that each of our improvement programmes is evaluated. We evaluate our programmes to provide sound evidence of their impact, and to better understand how it has been achieved. The researchers organised their analysis within three broad themes: - design and planning - organisational and institutional contexts, professions and leadership - sustainability, spread and unintended consequences. Within these themes, they identified 10 key challenges to improvement that consistently emerged in the programmes evaluated: - convincing people that there is a problem - convincing people that the solution chosen is the right one - getting data collection and monitoring systems right - excess ambitions and projectness - the organisational con ...
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