NHS Improvement publications

In this section of our website you will find our most recent publications across all workstreams. We also share our publications on our LinkedIn page.

You can view older publications within:

• Audiology
• Cancer
• Diagnostics
• Heart
• Lung
• Stroke




	Collection of posters from the children and young people test and prototype teams This publication represents some of the learning and the excellent work from the teams and sites participating in the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI). (Published January 2012)
	Effective pathways for long term conditions Stabilising the condition Supporting patients to live their lives Timely intervention Providing choice and support towards the end of life For those with long term conditions it is important to ensure that we not only add years to life, but add life to those years. Looking across the specialties NHS Improvement works with we have identified four key areas across the pathway where patients and carers want improvements
	Equality for all: delivering safe care, seven days a week NHS Improvement has been working with clinical teams across health and social care to find examples of equality of treatment and outcome regardless of the day of the week. Visit our seven day working website
	Delivering major breast surgery safely as a day case or one night stay (excluding reconstruction) (December 2011)
	First steps towards quality improvement: A simple guide to improving services (December 2011)
	Improving earlier diagnosis and the long term management of COPD: testing the case for change (December 2011)
	Improving end of life care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): testing the case for change (December 2011)
	Transforming acute care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): testing the case for change (December 2011)
	The best of clinical pathway redesign - practical examples delivering benefits to patients The examples here showcase just some of the innovations that have enabled thousands of patients to enjoy better health and well-being thanks to practicalservice improvements implemented on various clinical pathways Download the flyer for this publication
	Heart failure top tips for GPs - set of four postcards: 1 - diagnosis 2 - up-titration of drugs in heart failure 3 - managing heart failure patients 4 - a crash course in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
	Mind the gap Ways to enhance therapy provision in stroke rehabilitation This document explores some of the different models adopted by therapy services to deliver more rehabilitation and provides further detail about 45 minutes, process and outcomes.
Practical principles	Practical principles for improving stroke care: 1 - Improving psychological care after stroke 2 - Developing an early supported discharge service 3 - Improving access to CT scanning 4 - Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) 5 - How to establish joint care planning 6 - How to manage reviews for stroke survivors 7 - Being the best in acute stroke 8 - Developing a community stroke service
	NHS Improvement - providing practical support to primary care This short publication demonstrates how NHS Improvement, working with GPs, practice managers, practice nurses and commissioners can help to deliver free practical service improvements across a range of different clinical areas.
	Designing and implementing pathways to benefit patient aftercare: Continuing to build the evidence The fifth in a series of publications from the NCSI CYP workstream. This publication draws together the evidence so far from the NHS teams testing the concepts of alternative modelsof aftercare for children and young people living with and beyond cancer and provides the initial evidence to help to support the commissioning of effective aftercare services in the future
	National projects: Making a difference for your heart failure patients In March 2010, NHS Improvement invited organisations to work in partnership on projects dedicated to improving the heart failure pathway, up to and including end of life projects. Projects were submitted from acute trusts, PCTs and cardiac and stroke networks and some with involvement of palliative care services. This publication provides a flavour of the work that was undertaken, and celebrates the project teams' hard work and achievement. For more information, please visit: NHS Improvement heart failure web resource.
	Managing COPD as a long term condition: Emerging learning from the national improvement projects Service redesign and improvement generate opportunities to involve service users who will provide a different perspective on the service, so that we can better understand whether our service or improvements make any difference to the patient. (Published August 2011)
	Psychological care after stroke: Improving stroke services for people with cognitive and mood disorders (Published August 2011)
	Effective follow-up: testing risk stratfied pathways (Cancer) This document highlights the work being led by NHS Improvement to support the delivery of the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative (NCSI) vision for those living with and beyond cancer. This survivorship agenda is a priority which was outlined in the Cancer Reforms Strategy (2007) and Improving Outcomes: A Strategy For Cancer (2011) (Published May 2011)
	Improving home oxygen services: Emerging learning from the National Improvement Projects (Published April 2011)
	Bringing Lean to Life "Bringing Lean to Life" provides a basic introduction and overview of Lean; the culture, principles and tools to understand, tackle and resolve issues within healthcare. It is not intended as a complete guide to implementing Lean as a management system.