Welcome to NHS Improvement - Diagnostics
Latest news
17 May - Service improvement in microbiology event
8 May - Service improvement of the year award to audiology teams
18 April - Radiology team attending UKRC 2012
16 April - Latest radiology eBulletin
14 March - Rapid review of endoscopy services
Service Improvement in Microbiology: why, what and how?
Learn from colleagues who have used Lean methodology to improve quality and safety whilst contributing to their QIPP cost saving challenges
5 July 2012 - Holiday Inn Birmingham
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NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes - diagnostics challenge
The NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes have been created to recognise and reward ideas that tackle some of the most challenging areas in healthcare. Now in their second year , the scheme not only rewards the tremendous pool of talent that exist in the NHS with well-deserved recognition, but also provide successful applicants with prize money – the biggest winner to date received £100,000.
One of the challenges is Improved diagnostic investigation:
"Introduce innovative redesign of services coupled with newer uses of technology to enable the right diagnostics to be performed first time and be acted upon faster to: improve patient pathways, experience and outcomes; reduce diagnostic turnaround times to action by at least 50% or reduce inappropriate demand by at least 20% and/or enable at least 25% of appropriate tests to be provided in the community or by direct access."
Find out more about this challenge
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Download a short presentation about the NHS Innovation Challenge prizes
NHS Improvement - Diagnostics
Find out about the work of NHS Improvement - Diagnostics
Extract taken from The best of clinical pathway design: practical examples delivering benefits to patients
Our vision:
To deliver improved patient focused outcomes, through clinical and process excellence
Our mission:
The NHS Improvement - Diagnostics team works to deliver evidence based sustainable, effective improvements, aligned to national priorities with measurable outcomes by:
- testing and supporting practical implementation of service redesign methods
- demonstrating a ‘how to’ approach to achieve sustainable effective patient pathways
- develop leaders and clinical teams to embed a culture of continuous improvement
- sharedlearning, demonstrating increased impact and value for money
Our role
The role of the NHS Improvement - Diagnostics team is to:<
- provide service improvement and redesign expertise, including Lean and Six Sigma methodology
- provide clinical and managerial expertise in Diagnostic services
- support high quality, timely and effective patient centred diagnostics
- support the delivery of NHS priorities and Department of Health (DH) policy
- work in partnership with the DH Imaging and Pathology teams