Quality improvement in diabetes care

Use the following resources and tools to embed quality improvement approaches into diabetes care.

Improving quality is about making diabetes care safe, effective, patient-centred, timely, efficient and equitable. To achieve this, NHS organisations across the UK are increasingly using proven quality improvement approaches.

Essential reading

• Improving quality in the English NHS, a strategy for action, The King's Fund website (February 2016)

• What’s getting in the way? Barriers to improvement in the NHS, The Health Foundation website (February 2015)

• Building the foundations for improvement, The Health Foundation website (February 2015)

• Using clinical communities to improve quality, The Health Foundation website (December 2013)

• Quality improvement made simple, The Health Foundation website (August 2013)

Resources

• An introduction to the NHS Change Model, NHS England website

• First steps towards quality improvement: a simple guide to improving services, NHS England website

• Improvement tools, NHS Improving Quality website

• The handbook of quality and service improvement tools, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (PDF, 3.9MB)

• Quality improvement tools, NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub website

• Improvement leaders' guides, NHS England website

• Quality improvement toolkit for diabetes care, Royal College of General Practitioners website

• Improvement tools, Institute for Healthcare Improvement website (free, login required)

• Guide to quality improvement methods, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership website

• How to become an improvement measure expert in 60 minutes guide

• A systematic approach to quality improvement, NIHR CLAHRC North West London website

• PDSA best practice guidance and template, NIHR CLAHRC North West London (Word, 110KB)

E-learning

• Why should you care about quality improvement? Dr. Mike Evans video: an illustrated look at quality improvement, Institute for Healthcare Improvement website

• Quality improvement e-learning, University of Lincoln website (free)

• Quality improvement e-learning, NHS Scotland Quality Improvement Hub website (free)

• Improvement academy, bronze, silver and gold e-learning courses, Yorkshire and Humber AHSN website (free, login required)

• Improvement FUNdamentals online course, NHS England website (free)

• Open school, Institute for Healthcare Improvement website (free, login required)

Training courses and support

• Quality, service improvement and redesign programme, NHS Improvement website (free)

Quality improvement networks

• Q community, connecting people skilled in improvement across the UK, The Health Foundation website