Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Quality of care is an essential outcome in modern healthcare, and improving this care is an integral part of the daily work of all healthcare professionals. The Handbook of Quality Improvement in Healthcare systematically covers the most modern theories and methods of improvement and implementation science in a practical and easy to follow format. It focusses on key challenges in healthcare, such as developing safe person-centred care, ensuring equity of care, meeting the challenge of climate change, and ensuring that care is safe, effective, timely, and delivered efficiently. By using helpful case studies throughout, and providing ethical, psychological, and practical advice on quality of care, this pocket-sized handbook is the ideal guide to all in healthcare today.

Peter Lachman M.D. MPH. M.B.B.Ch., FRCPCH, FCP (SA), FRCPI is Lead Faculty Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in Dublin, where he directs the Leadership and Quality programme to develop clinical leaders in quality improvement. He was Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) from 1st May 2016 to 30th April 2021. He was a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI in 2005-2006 and developed the quality improvement programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was the Deputy Medical Director with the lead for Patient Safety. He was also a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Free Hospital in London specialising in the challenge of long term conditions for children. He is the lead editor of the OUP Handbook on Patient Safety published in April 2022; and Co-Editor of the OUP Handbook on Medical Leadership and Management published in December 2022.

- 1: Introduction to quality in healthcare - 2: Challenges for quality improvement - 3: Improvement science - 4: Implementation science and quality improvement - 5: Equity and quality improvement - 6: Sustainable quality improvement - 7: Economics of quality improvement - 8: Coproducing health and person centred care - 9: Standards in healthcare - 10: The lens of psychology - 11: How to make change happen - 12: Appreciation of systems - 13: Understanding variation - 14: Lens of knowledge - 15: Strategies for measurement - 16: Measurement of person centred care - 17: Application of quality improvement - preparing your quality improvement project - 18: Application of quality improvement - next steps - 19: Quality improvement, research, ethics and publishing - 20: Resource hyperlinks