1st Edition

Improving Healthcare A Handbook for Practitioners

Edited By Lesley Baillie, Elaine Maxwell Copyright 2017
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Good intentions to do our best in healthcare are not enough. Healthcare professionals need to know how to close the gap between best evidence and practice, by understanding and applying quality improvement principles and processes. Improving Healthcare is a practical guide, providing healthcare staff with the knowledge and skills that enable them to implement, evaluate and disseminate a... Read more

Chapter 1. Introducing Healthcare Improvement  Chapter 2. Understanding the Context for Healthcare Iprovement  Chapter 3. System Improvement  Chapter 4. Service User Involvement in Healthcare Improvement  Chapter 5. Ethics and Governance in Healthcare Improvement  Chapter 6. Measuring for Healthcare Improvement  Chapter 7. High Reliability Organisations: Making Care Safer through Reliability and Resilience  Chapter 8. Implementing Healthcare Improvement  Chapter 9. Sharing Healthcare Improvements: Presenting and Communicating Improvement Results  Chapter 10. Evaluating Healthcare Improvements

Biography

Lesley Baillie is Florence Nightingale Foundation Chair of Clinical Nursing Practice in the School of Health and Social Care at London South Bank University. 

Elaine Maxwell is Associate Professor in Leadership at London South Bank University.