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NHS Improving Quality works to improve health outcomes by providing improvement and change expertise. They work to research and identify best practice from within the NHS as well as globally. They are investigating a number of topic areas: Patient Safety Seven Day Services Integrated Care Experience of Care Long Term Conditions NHS Health Check CCG Capability NHS Change Model You can search the website for publications and case studies. You can find improvement tools, guides and reports as well as posters and leaflets.

This week sees the launch of a new online library as part of the NHS Evidence Speecialist Collections. The quality and productivity library brings together examples of innovative practices that can be shared with all staff. The examples of improvements range from one-off studies in single organisations to robustly tested large scale changes that have been replicated in multiple organisations and have had results published in academic journals. A selection of the examples have been highly recommended as potential high impact changes, these can be found under the Recommended section .