Welcome to the March 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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1. Quality Improvement
The Role of Medical Student Quality Improvement Projects in Health Care: A Scoping Review (Australian Journal of Rural Health, Feb 2025)
Using a co-design approach to develop a Preventative Online Mental Health Program for Youth (POMHPY): a quality improvement project (BMC Health Services Research, Feb 2025)
Rideshare services for transportation assistance in gynecologic oncology: a quality improvement study (BMC Health Services Research, Feb 2025)
Integrating a quality improvement experiential platform into medical student education (BMC Med Educ, February 2025)
Developing and piloting a peer quality improvement coaching protocol for front-line healthcare staff (BMJ Open Quality, February 2025)
Improving quality and outcomes of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in refractory cardiac arrest: the Phoenix ECPR project (BMJ Open Quality, February 2025)
Improving follow-up visits among individuals with hypertension: Quality Improvement project in the District Hospital, Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, 2021-2022 (BMJ Open Quality, Feb 2025)
Reducing prematurity-related neonatal mortality: a quality improvement project in Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (BMJ Open Quality, Feb 2025)
Optimising timely and safe oxygen delivery systems for enhanced patient care: a quality improvement project at Wallaga University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, 2024 (BMJ Open Quality, Feb 2025)
‘We listened and supported and depended on each other’: a qualitative study of how leadership influences implementation of QI interventions (BMJ Quality & Safety, Feb 2025)
Assessing the effectiveness of leader rounding for high reliability: a quality improvement initiative (BMJ Quality & Safety, Feb 2025)
Quality improvement collaborative to increase access to caesarean sections: lessons from Bihar, India (BMJ Quality & Safety, February 2025)
“Is this thing on?” Measuring technology self-efficacy in cardiac rehabilitation patients’ adoption of a virtual care platform (CJC Open, Feb 2025)
Scoping Review of the Impact of Culture on the Effectiveness of Quality Improvement Programs (JCO Global Oncology, Feb 2025)
Developing a patient-focused discourse around hospital flow (NHS Confederation, Feb 2025)
Improving Diagnostics: The South West London Acute Provider Collaborative (NHS Providers, Feb 2025)
Listen to THIS Podcasts focussed on healthcare improvement – Episode 1: Access to primary care and improving healthcare systems (THIS Institute, Feb 2025)
2. Integrated care & strategy
What’s the role of kindness in the healthcare context? A scoping review (BMC Health Services Research, Feb 2025)
Addressing health inequalities through engagement with people and communities: a self-assessment and improvement framework for integrated care systems (Care Quality Commission, Feb 2025)
The preventative shift: how can we embed prevention and achieve long term missions (Demos, Feb 2025)
Forging a more equitable healthy future through policy and partnership: tackling health inequalities through innovation (Health Improvement Network, Feb 2025)
Safety management: accountability across organisational boundaries (Health Services Safety Investigations Body, Feb 2025)
An overview of the Department of Health & Social Care for the new parliament 2023-24 (National Audit Office, Feb 2025)
The future of Primary Care (NHS Confederation, Feb 2025)
Green plan guidance (NHS England, Feb 2025)
Climate change and health: embedding ethics into policy and decision making (Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Feb 2025)
What does the NHS staff survey tell us about the changing behaviours and motivation of health care staff? (Nuffield Trust, Feb 2025)
NHS provider deficits are back: How bad is the situation? (Nuffield Trust, Feb 2025)
Tech to save time: how the NHS can realise the benefits (The Health Foundation, Feb 2025)
Things can only get better? Public perceptions of health and care under the new government (The Health Foundation, Feb 2025)
The 10 Year Health Plan: what do we know about public perceptions of the three shifts? (The Kings Fund, Feb 2025)
Lost in the system: the need for better admin (The Kings Fund, Feb 2025)
3. Patients & people
Patient safety culture through the lenses of surgical patients: a qualitative study (BMC Health Services Research, Feb 2025)
Patient Experiences of Hospital Care in the Context of Comprehensive Care Delivery: A Mixed Method Study (Journal of Advanced Nursing, Feb 2025)
Motivational Interviewing is “Doing” What Matters: Integrating Motivational Interviewing Spirit and Skills into What Matters to You? Conversations (Journal of Patient Experience, Feb 2025)
Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study (Journal of Patient Experience, Feb 2025)
Instruments for assessing patient-reported experience measures among patients with diabetes mellitus: a scoping review (Journal of Patient Reported Outcomes, Feb 2025)
Experience of care improvement framework (NHS England, Feb 2025)
Does healthcare deliver?: results from the Patient Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS) (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Feb 2025)
Mixed methods scoping review of patients’ experiences of urgent and emergency cancer care (Supportive Care in Cancer, Feb 2025)
4. Events
Applying Health Equity Principles & Addressing Inequalities - Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex 11 March 1.30-2.30
NHS Impact Masterclass: Engaging & involving our communities in improvement work 14 March 1:00
AI brain imaging to transform delivery of thrombectomy for stroke - Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley 18 March 1.00-2.00
Improving capacity and flow in CAMHS - The Q Community 20 March 2025 10.00-11.00
Do With: making the movement happen - The Kings Fund 26 March 2025 10.00-12.00
Measuring benefits and impacts - Health Innovation East Midlands 1 April 2025 11.00-12.00
NHS Impact Masterclass: Leading improvement across a system 9 April 2025 2:00
NHS Impact Lunch & Learn: Medical consultant job planning 24 April 2025 1:00
Rapid Evaluation in Health Care 2025 Nuffield Trust / Health Foundation, London 14 May 2025
NHS Impact Masterclass: Leadership for improvement 19 May 2025 3:30
NHS ConfedExpo 2025, Manchester Central 11-12 June 2025
NHS Impact Masterclass: Tools to understand an improvement opportunity 13 June 2025 11:00
NHS Impact Masterclass: Mastering the PDSA cycle 15 July 2025 10:00