Making the difference

Is efficiency the enemy of innovation and improvement? Are efficiency programmes oppressive, leaving healthcare staff no... Read more

How can asking patient to tell us their story improve healthcare? Helen Morant, content lead at BMJ, talks us through he... Read more

This week, we look at medication reconciliation.Joshua Pevnick, health services researcher and hospital physician at Ced... Read more

Fiona Moss, dean at the Royal Society of Medicine, gives us an overview of quality improvement, and it's underpinnings.T... Read more

"Those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it." At the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcar... Read more

Or, the one where Fiona Moss and Don Berwick tells us what they think quality improvement is.Fiona Moss is dean, Royal S... Read more

It's bad practice to prescribe a brand name drug when a cheaper, viable and approved generic is available. But, particul... Read more

Plan, do, study, act cycles, or PDSA cycles, are the basis of many quality improvement projects, they're a model to tria... Read more

The Francis report, the Berwick report, the Keogh review - all of these have highlighted how important learning from mis... Read more