Welcome to NHS Improvement

NHS Improvement is currently working with over 240 sites in England to transform, deliver and build sustainable improvements across the entire pathway of care in cancer, diagnostics, heart and stroke services. NHS Improvement works closely with the Department of Health with all work aligned to national priorities and supporting delivery of key national strategies

Quality and Productivity Challenge

With a continued focus on the delivery of quality improvements based on the latest evidence based practice and a robust monitoring of performance, the work of NHS Improvement makes a significant practical difference to services along the patient pathway and is clinically led and patient focused to achieve the best outcomes.
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What's new?

Launch of the Lung Improvement Programme 
This new NHS Improvement programme has been set up to provide national support for the local improvement of respiratory services. The programme will initially cover COPD, asthma and home oxygen services in England. It is an initiative to support the development of clinical networks and the implementation of the forthcoming National Strategy for COPD.(Dec 09)

Cancer Reform Strategy - Second Annual Report Published
The Department of Health have published the second annual report of its Cancer Reform Strategy. Chapters 3 and 7 highlights the work from the NHS Improvement Cytology pilot sites on how to achieve the 14 day turnaround time and Transforming Inpatient Care programme test sites which emphasises the potential benefits to trusts if they apply the four Winning Principles.

Delivering the NHS Health Check: A Practical Guide to Point of Care Testing
Identifies some of the pros and cons to the use of Point of Care Testing (POCT) as well as practical ‘solutions’ and learning from the field.(Nov 09)

Cytology improvement guide - achieving a 14 day turnaround time in Cytology
This new guide highlights the findings and improvements from the pilot sites who tested how the 14 day standards can be achieved using Lean methodology.This practical guide is supported by tried and tested case studies across the whole patient pathway which NHS staff involved in the screening pathway can adopt and adapt to meet their local setting.(Nov 09)

Primary PCI... 1 year on and counting
A new dedicated newsletter that provides updates on national progress, local good news stories, frequently asked questions and a ‘focus on’ section that will address particular challenges that the implementation of this service can present (Nov 09)

Cardiac Rehabilitation - National Priority Projects: Lessons and learning one year on...
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a national priority project of NHS Improvement focusing on increasing the access to, equity of provision and uptake of CR services for heart attack, angioplasty and CABG patients. The project summaries include issues to be addressed, baseline position, actions taken, key learning, QPC outcomes and results to date from the 11 projects participating in this work. (Oct 09)

Atrial fibrillation in primary care: making an impact on stroke prevention National priority project final summaries.
The document captures the final summary of their individual approach, lessons learned, improvements to practice and quality outcomes, also sharing tools and resources developed to enable other health communities to drive this agenda forward. (Oct09) 

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