Introduction to QI
We have provided links to a number of useful sites that give a good introduction to Quality Improvement
| Source | Title |
|---|---|
| Royal College of Surgeons of England | RCS and Quality Improvement |
| Royal College of Surgeons of England | Quality improvement in surgery |
| HQIP | e-Learning introduction to quality improvement for healthcare professionals |
| Hughes, RG | Tools and strategies for quality improvement and patient safety |
| Health Foundation | Quality improvement made simple |
| Health Foundation | Improvement collaboratives in healthcare |
| NICE | Putting NICE Guidance into practice |
| NHS Wales | 1000 Lives Improvement |
Tools for QI
A number of organisations provide tools for QI
| Source | Title |
|---|---|
| NHS Improvement | Quality, service improvement and redesign (QSIR) tools by stage of the patient pathway |
| NHS Improvement | Quality, service improvement and redesign (QSIR) tools by type of task |
| Institute for Healthcare Improvement | Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit |
| HQIP | A guide to quality improvement methods |
| East London NHS Foundation Trust | Quality Improvement Resources |
Process Mapping
| Source | Title |
|---|---|
| BMJ – Trebble et al | Process mapping the patient journey: an introduction |
| NHS Improvement | Conventional Process Mapping |
| NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement | Process mapping, analysis and redesign |
Driver Diagrams
| Source | Title |
|---|---|
| NHS Improvement | Driver Diagrams |
| East London NHS Foundation Trust | Driver Diagrams |
Models for Improvement
| Source | Title |
|---|---|
| NHS Improvement | PDSA cycles and the model for improvement |
| East London NHS Foundation Trust | The model for improvement |
| Institute for Healthcare Improvement | An introduction to the model for Improvement (video) |
| Institute for Healthcare Improvement | Testing Changes |
QI Case Studies
Below is a list of QI case studies. Please contact us if you have any good examples of QI studies for vascular surgery and we can add to this list.
| Source | Title |
|---|---|
| Vascular Society of Great Britain & Ireland | Delivering a National Quality Improvement Programme for Patients with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms |
| BJS Open | Effectiveness of a quality improvement collaborative in reducing time to surgery for patients requiring emergency cholecystectomy |
| Implementation Science | Understanding the influences on successful quality improvement in emergency general surgery: learning from the RCS Chole-QuIC project |
| Implementation Science | Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial) |
| NHS Scotland | QI Case Studies |
| BMJ Open Quality | The utilisation of the MUST nutritional screening tool on vascular surgical wards |
| Northern Vascular Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ireland | Making surgical wards safer for patients with diabetes: reducing hypoglycaemia and insulin errors |