Resources for
Effective Sleep Treatment
(REST)
Large-Scale healthcare quality improvement programmes
...and an excellent patient experience
Quality and quality improvement are central to health policy worldwide...
over the past 12 years has led to
4 large-scale...
The Community and Health Research Unit (CaHRU)
Quality
Improvement Collaboratives
which are an organised approach to quality improvement involving 5 essential features:
a specified topic...
...clinical experts and experts in quality improvement...
...a model for improvement...
...multi-professional teams from multiple sites...
...and a series of structured activities
Ambulance Services Cardiovascular Quality Indicator (ASCQI)
...a national Quality Indicator collaborative involving all English ambulance services in order to improve urgent care for heart attacks and stroke...
Scaling up PINCER
...a large-scale regional QI collaborative involving
380
general practices in
12
Clinical Commissioning groups in the East Midlands
...which led to identification of over
21,600
patients
2.9 million
...resulting in better
care for people with
insomnia and led to significant reductions in sleeping tablet prescribing
... a countrywide QI collaborative in Lincolnshire to improve primary care treatment of insomnia, involving
8
General practices...
...quality in health means effective, efficient, safe care...
...a regional collaborative involving 11 Higher Education Institutions to develop and improve quality improvement teaching and research
Higher Education Institution Challenge for Patient Support Quality improvement
...this was presented in the East Midlands Network for Quality Improvement Research and education website which has had over 1000 hits from users in 8 countries
...which led to the identification of shortfalls in pre-hospital care for heart attack and stroke and education of ambulance staff in Quality Improvement methods and how to implement these changes
CaHRU carried out the first systematic review of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and the national pay-for-performance (P4P) scheme for general practice...
...which led to fundamental changes and influenced the design and development of P4P schemes internationally...
...for instance, they worked with colleagues at the Berlin University of Technology to investigate how the work on UK indicators could be translated to the German setting
Their work on QI has been cited in the RCGP's Quality Improvement Guide for General Practice...
...a regional collaborative involving 11 Higher Education Institutions to develop and improve quality improvement teaching and research
CaHRU's work in QI has led to insights in how to organise and implement large scale QI collaboratives, which has been taken up by other groups and collaboratives
WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFORMATION?
QI learning: http://elearning.ascqi.co.uk
Web resources: http://ascqi.co.uk; http://restproject.org.uk; http://enqire.org
Researchers are working with healthcare
staff to improve quality of care to patients
Improvements have been spread widely through large-scale collaboratives in different settings
provements have been spread widely through large-scale collaboratives in different settingsprovements have been spread widely through large-scale collaboratives in different TheThe learning has been disseminated through e-learning, web resources and textbooks
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR ME...
...which provides access to around
30,000
members and fellows of the RCGP
potential prescribing errors in over
Web resources: http://ascqi.co.uk; http://restproject.org.uk; http://enqire.org
