Welcome to the February 2025 QI Evidence Update — your go-to monthly summary of the latest quality improvement research, evidence, tools, and events—all from the past month and condensed into just 2 pages for easy reference.
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Quality and Patient Safety Competency Navigator (Health Service Executive Ireland, Jan 2025)
Five principles to prioritise in small-scale surgical quality improvement: a qualitative study of the views of surgical improvement leaders (BMJ Open Quality, Jan 2025)
What about physician wellness? Impact of a quality improvement intervention (BMJ Open Quality, Jan 2025)
Interventions to increase utilisation of advanced care planning documentation for hospitalised older adults (BMJ Open Quality, Jan 2025)
NCHD handover in the acute mental health setting: a quality improvement initiative implementing an electronic handover tool (BMJ Open Quality, Jan 2025)
Releasing time to care: a quality improvement project aimed to increase direct rehabilitation time in a Stroke Rehabilitation Centre (BMJ Open Quality, Dec 2024)
Applying quality improvement to clinical practice: primer for psychiatrists (BJPsych Advances, Jan 2025)
A realist review of how, why, for whom and in which contexts quality improvement in healthcare impacts inequalities (BMJ Quality & Safety, Jan 2025)
Art of leading quality improvement (BMJ Quality & Safety, Jan 2025)
The beast and the burden: will pruning performance measurement improve quality? (BMJ Quality & Safety, Jan 2025)
Measurement for Improvement (Cambridge University Press, Jan 2025)
Bridging practice and research: differentiating quality improvement, quality assurance, and quality improvement research in a learning health system (European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Jan 2025)
Increasing Serious Illness Conversations in Patients at High Risk of One-Year Mortality Using Improvement Science: A Quality Improvement Study (Healthcare, Jan 2025)
Developing a Quality Improvement Framework to Enhance the Health System User Experience for Individuals Living With Type 1 Diabetes: The Reshape T1D Study (Health Expectations, Jan 2025)
Characteristics of Quality Improvement Projects in Health Services: A Systematic Scoping Review (Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, Jan 2025)
Development of the Team Evaluation and Assessment Measure Quality Improvement (TEAM-QI) and Proof-Of-Concept Testing in Maternity Teams (Nursing & Health Sciences, Jan 2025)
Book Chapter: Service Innovation in Healthcare: Service Today Versus Service Tomorrow (Service Innovation and Management, Jan 2025)
Integrated care & strategy
New Hospital Programme: plan for implementation (DHSC, Jan 2025)
Road to recovery: the government's 2025 mandate to NHS England (DHSC, Jan 2025)
2025/26 NHS priorities and operational planning guidance: what you need to know (NHS Confederation, Jan 2025)
Are integrated care systems improving population health outcomes? (NHS Confederation, Jan 2025)
Annual assessment of integrated care boards 2023/24 (NHS England, Jan 2025)
Mental health services: the NHS trust perspective (NHS Providers, Jan 2025)
Reforming elective care for patients (NHS Providers, Jan 2025)
In the balance: lessons for changing the mix of professions in NHS services (Nuffield Trust, Jan 2025)
A portrait of modern Britain: health - the public's priorities for the NHS (Policy Exchange, Jan 2025)
NHS financial sustainability (Public Accounts Committee, Jan 2025)
Ageing in the fast and slow lane: examining geographic gaps in ageing (Resolution Foundation, Jan 2025)
On the frontline of the UK’s corridor care crisis (Royal College of Nursing, Jan 2025)
Government’s plan for 18-week NHS waiting times: is it realistic? (The Health Foundation, Jan 2025)
Designing inclusive and trusted digital health services with people and communities (The Kings Fund, Jan 2025)
Patients & people
Improving the healthcare user experience: an optimization model grounded in patient-centredness (BMC Health Services Research, Jan 2025)
Understanding the enablers and barriers to implementing a patient led escalation system: a qualitative study (BMJ Quality & Safety, Jan 2025)
Best Practices Guidelines for the Engagement of People with Lived Experience and Family Members in Mental Health and Substance Use Health Research: A Modified Delphi Consensus Study (Health Expectations, Jan 2025)
A pain to complain: why it’s time to fix the NHS complaints process (Healthwatch England, Jan 2025)
National Patient Satisfaction Survey as a Predictor for Quality of Care and Quality Improvement–Experience and Practice (Patient Preference and Adherence, Jan 2025)
Going beyond co-production: a public contributor led, local evaluation of the National Institute of Health and Social Care (NIHR) Research Champion role (Research Involvement and Engagement, Jan 2025)
Events
Lunch and Learn: Outpatient services improvement - 20 February 2025 1:00pm
Q Online Visit: Learning Systems at the heart of Quality Management 27 February 2025 10:00-12:30 (The Q Community)
Masterclass: Engaging and involving our communities in improvement work - 14 March 1:00pm
Improving capacity and flow in CAMHS 20 March 2025 10:00-11:00am (The Q Community)
Do With: making the movement happen 26 March 2025 10:00-12:00 (The Kings Fund)
Masterclass: Leading improvement across a system - 9 April 2025 2:00pm
Lunch and Learn: Medical consultant job planning - 24 April 2025 1:00pm
Masterclass: Leadership for improvement - 19 May 2025 3:30pm
Masterclass: Tools to understand an improvement opportunity - 13 June 2025 11:00am
Masterclass: Mastering the PDSA cycle - 15 July 2025 10:00am
Rapid Evaluation in Health Care 2025 - 14 May 2025, London (Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation)