Podcasts by Making the difference
Effective, efficient, patient-centred and safe healthcare is what we all want to see, and what the field of quality improvement is all about.
In these podcasts, Harriet Vickers talks to doctors and other healthcare professionals about how they’ve gone about improving care for their patients, and explores the ideas and techniques behind making change happen.
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Efficiency vs innovation and improvement from 2016-06-17T15:23:24
Is efficiency the enemy of innovation and improvement? Are efficiency programmes oppressive, leaving healthcare staff no time to be creative and piling on burdensome bureaucracy, or are efficiency,...
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Tell me a story from 2016-06-03T15:22:35
How can asking patient to tell us their story improve healthcare? Helen Morant, content lead at BMJ, talks us through her project getting healthcare professionals to sit down with patients and reco...
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What are they on? from 2016-05-20T16:42:21
This week, we look at medication reconciliation. Joshua Pevnick, health services researcher and hospital physician at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, LA, US, talks us through what it is and why it can be s...
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Extra: Fiona Moss on the science of improvement from 2016-05-12T15:01:54
Fiona Moss, dean at the Royal Society of Medicine, gives us an overview of quality improvement, and it's underpinnings. This interview was recorded at the International Forum on Quality and Safety...
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Extra: Don Berwick on the science of improvement from 2016-05-12T15:01:53
"Those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it." At the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, in Gothenburg in April, Don Berwick spoke on the scientific foundations ...
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The science of improvement from 2016-05-06T15:50:16
Or, the one where Fiona Moss and Don Berwick tells us what they think quality improvement is. Fiona Moss is dean, Royal Society of Medicine, and Don Berwick is president emeritus and senior fellow...
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Bad with names from 2016-04-22T16:22:57
It's bad practice to prescribe a brand name drug when a cheaper, viable and approved generic is available. But, particularly in the US, this happens too much, at major cost to the health system. T...
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Plan, do, study, act from 2016-04-08T13:43:16
Plan, do, study, act cycles, or PDSA cycles, are the basis of many quality improvement projects, they're a model to trial changes and feed the lessons from each test into the next. Why are they a ...
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Mistakes were made from 2016-04-08T13:43:15
The Francis report, the Berwick report, the Keogh review - all of these have highlighted how important learning from mistakes is in healthcare. Reporting incidents is key to this, and in this podc...
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