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Quality Improvement

Use the resources below to find evidence for Quality Improvement. The resources will signpost you to key Quality Improvement Resources and Swansea Bay UHB Library Services to support you with your Quality Improvement project. 

 

Follow this link to NHS Wales Library Search to search for books on Quality Improvement (Tip – Change the first drop down under the Search box to Books).

 

Follow this link to access ABC of Quality Improvement in Healthcare 1st ed. 2020. To request a copy, please follow this link to contact your local Swansea Bay UHB library. 

 

 

Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)

Follow this link to access HQIP Good Governance Handbook

Follow this link to access HQIP Clinical audit: a guide for NHS Boards and partners

Online academic and practical journals on the topic of Quality Improvement

Freely available on the NHS Wales network or with your NHS Wales email address if off site or on a mobile device. 

Some are published as Open Access and are therefore freely available without a password.

 

Journal List

 

Follow this link to access BMC Health Services Research (2001-) Open Access

Follow this link to access BMJ Open Quality (2012-) Open Access

Follow this link to access BMJ Quality and Safety (1992 -)

Follow this link to access Briefings on Hospital Safety (2009-)

Follow this link to access Harm Reduction Journal (2004-) Open Access

Follow this link to access Health Research Policy and Systems (2003-) Open Access

Follow this link to access International Journal for Quality in Health Care (1994-)

Follow this link to access International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance (1988-)

Follow this link to access Journal for Healthcare Quality: Official Publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality (2009-)

Follow this link to access Journal for Quality and Participation  (1992-)

Follow this link to access Patient Safety Monitor Journal (2009-)

Follow this link to access Pediatric Quality and Safety (2016-)

Follow this link to access Risk Management and Healthcare Policy (2008-) Open Access

Follow this link to access Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management (2005-)

Freely available on the NHS Wales network or with your NHS Wales email address if off site or on a mobile device.

Follow this link to search the following databases for articles about QI and your project or follow this link to ask expert library staff to carry out a search on your behalf:

  • Health Management Information Consortium
  • Healthcare Administration Database
  • Medline
  • Embase
  • CINAHL

Health Education & Improvement Wales (HEIW) is committed to providing training for healthcare professionals across Wales. Follow this link to access Quality Improvement Skills Training (QIST)

The Quality Improvement Skills Training (QIST) Programme works in partnership with Improvement Cymru to develop and deliver a unique QI training programme for Wales.

For further information, please follow this link to contact the QIST team HEIW.QIST@wales.nhs.uk

BMJ eLearning

Follow this link to access BMJ Learning

BMJ Learning has a range of courses on Quality Improvement and Change Management.

Please follow this link to access BMJ Learning Guide

For any help or advice about accessing BMJ Learning, please follow the link to the NHS Wales eLibrary BMJ Learning page.

 

Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)

Follow this link to HQIP eLearning Area

Swansea Bay UHB Library service has a licence to BMJ Open Quality  which allows its staff to publish a paper free of charge in this journal, subject to the peer review process. (Usual article processing charges are £1000 +). Please follow this link to access BMJ Open Quality

Please follow this link to email Lizzy Evans for the fellowship code.

Follow this link for information for authors is available on the BMJ Open Quality website.

The website provides resources to support you in your quality improvement work including podcasts, templates and a QI Project Guide to help you run and write up quality improvement projects. Follow this link to access the website. 

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