About NHS Improvement
Bringing together knowledge, experience
and practical know how to the NHS
NHS Improvement is a newly formed national improvement programme working with clinical networks and NHS organisations to transform, deliver and sustain improvements across the entire pathway of care in cancer, cardiac, diagnostics and stroke services.
Formed in April 2008 after a national review carried out by the Office of SHAs, NHS Improvement has brought together over eight years practical service improvement experience from the Cancer Services Collaborative 'Improvement Partnership' (CSC'IP'); Heart Improvement Programme (HIP) and Diagnostics Service Improvement Programme (DSI).
This new national improvement initiative aims to build on their inimitable knowledge and experience and continue to pilot, test and support practical implementation of service redesign methods. Through the continuous development and support of clinical networks and individual pilot sites, NHS Improvement demonstrates a "how to" approach to achieve sustainable effective pathways and systems to improve the efficiency and quality of NHS services.
We undertake focused pieces of redesign and testing work and then share this learning through a variety of products and mediums. NHS Improvement also works with networks and local teams to support local implementation and help spread improvements through to neighbouring networks, trusts and SHAs. NHS Improvement helps bridge the gap between Department of Health policy and practical implementation whilst providing value for money in terms of ensuring quality improvement, that the improvement remains patient-focussed and by ensuring measurable benefits for patients and the whole system. This ethos remains at the centre of the approach NHS Improvement takes to healthcare change and redesign.
The existing good work of the Cancer Services Collaborative 'Improvement Partnership', NHS Heart Improvement Programme and Diagnostics Service Improvement will continue under the umbrella of NHS Improvement, along with new work implementing the national Stroke Strategy.
