29 Oct 2018 Improvement Insights Quality Improvement Traps Using the English NHS as an example, this article focuses on the weaknesses of much current Quality Improvement (QI) thinking… Nick Downham
15 Oct 2018 Improvement Insights Variation and General Practice This article gives both an introduction to variation and specific insight to what it means to General Practice. Marc Etches
26 Apr 2018 Improvement Insights The role of standards in reducing variation A few years back I was captivated by surgeon Atul Gawande’s superb Reith lecture on the role of systems and… Nick Downham
26 Apr 2018 Improvement Insights Lacking purpose – do we really know what ‘it’ is? This is an additional post built on my observations of the Netflix film, War Machine, and the parallels to the… Nick Downham
26 Apr 2018 Improvement Insights The NHS is fixated on trying to do the wrong thing ‘righter’ You may have caught the film War Machine LINK on Netflix, staring Brad Pitt as an embattled general trying to… Nick Downham