Showing posts with label sustainability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainability. Show all posts
Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Paper: Surgical Safety Checklist - more than checking a box

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Fabulous - the authors have published a study where the results show there's a problem. I've been harping on about the lack of negat...
Friday, 24 August 2012

Book Review: Sustaining lean healthcare programme; a practical survival guide - Eaton & Phillip

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Different book styles appeal differently, to different people. This one appealed to me because it is  relatively  short (94 pages plus app...
Sunday, 22 July 2012

Paper: Strategies for sustaining a quality improvement collaborative and its patient safety gains

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Int J Qual Health Care.  2012 Jun 4. [Epub ahead of print] Strategies for sustaining a quality improvement collaborative and its patient sa...
Friday, 18 May 2012

Sustainabilty of QI results; we're not sure how to make it happen

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I love systematic reviews. Someone else does the hard work of synthesising the literature and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses. I...
Saturday, 29 October 2011

Sustainability - how about 52 years?

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After 52 years, the Marshall and Fraser Racing MAY be letting down the tyres and packing away their tools. I say MAY, because, if I know the...
Wednesday, 15 December 2010

New Paper: Short and long term effects of a QI collaborative on diabetes mgt

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I'm always on the look out for evidence of the sustainability of QI projects. A new paper in Implementation Science has some thoughts on...
Monday, 16 November 2009

Improvement Projects: Do no harm

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A common issue raised by project managers who are trying to implement existing good practice with individuals and teams is one of resistance...
Monday, 10 August 2009

Validity, reliability & generalisability of project results; the science of improvement?

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I am aware that the use (and sometimes invention) of management gobbledygook words to describe actions and intentions regarding quality impr...
Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Large scale change or spreading good practice?

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As a Rotarian I have recently been involved in a project to help the Masai Mara community in Tanzania get clean water near their homes. We...
Friday, 18 April 2008

Organisation-wide spread plans need vision

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With most groups I work spread seems, roughly, to fall into two categories: (a) spreading good practice across large geographic communities,...
Monday, 24 March 2008

Warning: "holding the gains" means missing the point

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For those well versed in the art of Cockney rhyming slang, then you'll know that the "dog and bone" is how a Cockney Londoner ...
Thursday, 20 March 2008

Charismatic leaders may hinder sustainability of improvement

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Of course we know that the skill of the truly great leader is to leave behind a team and a succession plan that not only maintains the knowl...