Efficiency vs innovation and improvement
Is efficiency the enemy of innovation and improvement? Are efficiency programmes oppressive, leaving healthcare staff no time to be creative and pilin...
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Effective, efficient, patient-centred and safe healthcare is what we all want to see, and what the field of quality improvement is all about. In these podcasts, Harriet Vickers talks to doctors and other healthcare professionals about how they’ve gone about improving care for their patients, and explores the ideas and techniques behind making change happen. http://quality.bmj.com
Tell me a story
How can asking patient to tell us their story improve healthcare? Helen Morant, content lead at BMJ, talks us through her project getting healthcare p...
What are they on?
This week, we look at medication reconciliation. Joshua Pevnick, health services researcher and hospital physician at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, LA, US, t...
Extra: Fiona Moss on the science of improvement
Fiona Moss, dean at the Royal Society of Medicine, gives us an overview of quality improvement, and it's underpinnings. This interview was recorded at...
Extra: Don Berwick on the science of improvement
"Those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it." At the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, in Gothenburg in April, Don...
The science of improvement
Or, the one where Fiona Moss and Don Berwick tells us what they think quality improvement is. Fiona Moss is dean, Royal Society of Medicine, and Don B...
Bad with names
It's bad practice to prescribe a brand name drug when a cheaper, viable and approved generic is available. But, particularly in the US, this happens t...
Plan, do, study, act
Plan, do, study, act cycles, or PDSA cycles, are the basis of many quality improvement projects, they're a model to trial changes and feed the lessons...
Mistakes were made
The Francis report, the Berwick report, the Keogh review - all of these have highlighted how important learning from mistakes is in healthcare. Report...