About NHS Alert

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The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has commissioned this service in order to highlight key documents that will be of interest to health professionals working in the area of service improvement. The main topics of the current awareness service are:

• Commissioning for improvement
  
• Raising quality whilst reducing cost
  
• Learning from improvement science
• Inspiring innovation
• Increasing productivity
• Building leadership capacity to deliver QIPP
• Managing Change
• Improveing patient experience 
• Improving patient safety

Additional features include a monthly Guest Editorial and Expert on Call, an expert-led discussion, accessible via teleconference, on a key piece of research.

Content is selected from a collection of relevant  journals (59.66 KB) and other sources, including:

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research World Health Organization
• Association of Public Health Observatories
  
• Audit Commission
• Australian College of Health Service Executives
• Canadian Council of Learning
• Canadian Foundation for Health Services Research
• Centre for Mental Health 
• The Change Foundation
• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
• Chartered Quality Institute
• Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society
  
• Cochrane Library (EPOC)
• Commonwealth Fund
  
• Counsel and Care
  
• Department for Children, Schools and Families
  
• Department of Health
• General Medical Council
  
• Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
• The Health Foundation
• Health Services Management Centre
  
• Homes and Communities Academy
  
• Improvement And Development Agency (IDEA)
• The Improvement Network (TIN)
  
• Institute of Directors
• Institute for Government
  
• Institute for Health Improvement
• JISC infoNet
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Kings Fund
• Knowledge Transfer and Innovation, Université Laval, Canada
• Lucian Leape Institute
  
• National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools: Products & Services
  
• National Health Executive
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  
• National Patient Safety Agency
• National Patient Safety Foundation
  
• National School of Government
• NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts)
  
• NHS Confederation
• NHS Employers
• NHS Evidence
• NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
• NHS Primary Care Contracting
• NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
• Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy Studies in Health Services
• Picker Institute
• Policy Exchange
  
• Public Sector & Government Information  
• RAND Europe