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Welcome to the NHS Improvement

NHS Improvement is currently working with over 270 sites in England to transform, deliver and build sustainable improvements across the entire pathway of care in cancer, diagnostics, heart and stroke services. With a focus on quality, productivity and innovation, NHS Improvement works closely with the Department of Health with all work aligned to national priorities and supporting delivery of key national strategies
 

What's new?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

NHS Improvement Transforming Inpatient Care Programme was commended Best Professional Education Initiative at this year’s Excellence in Oncology Awards. Click HERE to view them recieving their award 
 

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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NHS Improvement System

A comprehensive online resource of tools, guides and case studies to support quality improvement in NHS services. The system supports the clinical specialties listed above and is available free to every NHS organisation in England.

To Logon or register, click on the Improvement System tab at the top of the page.

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Using Discovery Interviews to improve care

Visit the Audiology Improvement Website

Visit the NHS Health Check Website

Sign up for the GRASP-AF Tooll

Video: Thoughts from the frontline

Latest news

The latest ebulletins from across NHS Improvement are now available online.

Heart Improvement ebulletin  16 November  2009

Stroke Improvement ebulletin   9 November 2009

NHS Health Check ebulletin November 2009

Cancer Improvement ebulletin  September 2009 

Audiology Improvement ebulletin  September 2009