The Health Foundation, the independent charity working to achieve high quality healthcare for people in the UK, has celebrated this year the conclusion of one of their main research programs: Quest for Quality and Improved Performance (QQUIP).
The research has been conducted during 2005-2010, to provide independent results about the quality and performance of the healthcare provision. Its purpose is to provide answers to three questions regarding healthcare, considered fundamental (The Health Foundation 2010):
- What is the current state of healthcare and performance?
- What works to improve quality and performance?
- Is value for money obtained from what is spent in the National Healthcare System (NHS)?
The program has had three different streams of research, as shown below:
Source: The Health Foundation, 2010
The Quality Enhancing Interventions were identified as six main areas where efforts should be put so as to improve quality and performance:
- Patient focused interventions
- Regulatory interventions
- Incentives
- Data-driven and IT based interventions (which was broken into Performance Reporting & Accountability and Information & Knowledge Management)
- Organizational interventions
- Healthcare delivery models.
Source: The Health Foundation, 2010
During the time interval of the research, several outputs in the shape of reports were produced, studying issues such as:
- Patient and public experience in the NHS
- Value from money in the English NHS
- Regulation and quality improvement
- Costs and benefits of health information technologies
- Safe and risk management in hospitals.
For more about the QQUIP initiative, visit The Health Foundation’s webpage, or directly download the research reports.
References:
The Health Foundation 2010, Quest for Quality and Improved Performance, available at: http://www.health.org.uk/current_work/research_development/qquip.html (accessed 3 July 2010).
The Health Foundation 2010, Quest for Quality and Improved Performance Brochure, available at: http://www.health.org.uk/document.rm?id=1178 (accessed 3 July 2010).
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