How can improvement learning help healthcare organisations meet ambitious net zero targets? Hear from Greener NHS and our three sustainable healthcare fellows: ths.im/3w7aiHB

User personas to capture disadvantage
User personas could help practices better plan for disadvantaged groups when designing or redesigning digital primary care services.
Laiba Husain Trisha Greenhalgh Dr Gemma Hughes Dr Teresa Finlay OxPrimaryCareSci THIS Institute

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Latest in the excellent THIS Institute Elements of Improving Quality & Safety in Healthcare series.
This one encourages those doing improvement work to engage in 'improvement ethics' to reflect on how different values are embedded and prioritised in healthcare improvement.

In our Element on Values and Ethics, the authors provide a set of questions to encourage ethical reflection on improvement plans and activities. A great resource for anyone working on healthcare improvement.

Find them here: ths.im/4d4D0d8

Operational failures in general practice interfere with GPs’ work & cause problems delivering care. We asked GPs & patients what they thought were key areas to target for improvement - here's what we found. Full paper: ths.im/4aWCKuG
THIS summary: ths.im/4b3xTYR

🎥 How do clinicians communicate an uncertain diagnosis, and how is healthcare improvement research changing the approach?
Watch the session led by Zoë Fritz (also on Mastadon) and @caitrionacox: ths.im/3Q2OOm6

Really fresh thinking here about improvement, in the latest in our THIS Institute series on major approaches to improving quality and safety in healthcare. All open access - free to use and share.

📖New release from our Cambridge University Press Elements series.

Alan Cribb and Polly Mitchell from King's School of Education Communication & Society and Vikki Entwistle from University of Aberdeen look at how and why questions about values and ethics are central to healthcare improvement.

Free to read and download: ths.im/4aAuqB7.

What does the evidence tell us about the role of human factors and ergonomics, and why haven’t the approaches been more widely adopted?
Watch the discussion with Ken Catchpole Susanna Stanford 💙 George Mensah, MD human in the loop: ths.im/3Q2h1cW

What does inclusive research practice look like and how can it be improved? Hear from Oli Williams Lynn Laidlaw (she/her) and Olivia Joseph🇬🇩: ths.im/3Q0VBfZ

If you’re attending the Quality Forum in person or online today, join our Director of Research Jane O'Hara & #THISFellow debbie clark for their workshop on learning from 'work as done' at 13:30 #Quality2024

Learn more about fellowship Debbie’s project ths.im/4atmd1k

Welcome Dr Charlotte Albury our new #THISFellow from OxPrimaryCareSci. Charlotte’s study explores how prevention advice is communicated to people experiencing multiple long-term health conditions and socioeconomic deprivation.
Learn more ths.im/4aQyeOp

Opportunity to take part in a study: we want to hear from staff involved in NHS virtual frailty wards to help develop a theory of change. Learn more: ths.im/49hrhEQ

Our research programme leader Kristina L Wanyonyi-Kay took part in a panel on the BBC World Service programme 'The Evidence' with Claudia Hammond and others to talk about the role of oral health in overall wellness. We interviewed Kristina about the topic: ths.im/49oD18D

Frailty virtual wards are growing in number across the NHS. We want to hear from staff involved in patient care, ward management, planning, policy or evaluation, to develop an understanding of how they are intended to work and why. Take part: ths.im/49hx5OJ

When it comes to planning a future workforce strategy, what does good look like? And how can healthcare improvement research play a part in it?

Watch the THIS Space 2023 keynote by Dr Kevin Fong ths.im/4axOjZH

We’re seeking the views of staff involved in NHS frailty virtual wards to explore how they are intended to work and why.

Read more about the study and take part: ths.im/3J1rz82

Through his post-doc fellowship’s lifetime, #THISFellow Oli Williams has become a thought leader on participatory research and brought co-production in healthcare improvement out of the shadows.
Read about Oli’s fellowship journey ths.im/3xiwbEn

The future of the NHS depends on workforce stewardship. But it needs to do better. We examine the issues in this The BMJ report from the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS.
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We at THIS Institute were very pleased to contribute evidence to this important report. We commented on leadership, openness, and regulation, with our work quoted extensively.