Improvement resource hub

Our improvement resource hub contains useful information on all aspects of improvement, as part of our peer learning offer.

Welcome to our improvement resource hub where you can find all our blogs, case studies, podcasts, videos and reports which relate to system improvement work.

This is also the place to find all the resources connected with our Learning and Improving Across Systems - Peer Learning Programme.

Influencing Tools and Resources

Three levels of resistance:

Rick Maurer’s resistance to change. It looks at how people are experiencing change, it’s a really simple tool to support uncovering what their resistance is about, how we can understand it and what we do address it.

Three levels of resistance worksheet

Narrative to change:

This narrative canvas is for people to support develop narrative and the case for change.

Narrative to change

Influencing plan:

If there a person or a group of system partners that you want to bring onboard or influence, or someone who may challenge your point of view, the influencing plan looks at how you can find commonality to move the conversation into a different way.

Influencing plan

Improvement Resources

Podcast

Leading improvement in Health and Care Podcast

Sharing stories and exploring the challenges of people making changes across systems.

Guide

How to guide: Measuring staff engagement in major change

This how-to guide will help you to understand the 10 principles that underpin how you engage staff well in change and provides flexible tools that you can use to measure engagement.

Guide

A guide to making the case for improvement

This guide is intended to help local organisation and system leaders make the case for investing in improvement approaches to achieve their delivery and performance goals. It will also be of interest to policymakers and regulators looking to incentivise improvement, and front-line staff and managers trying to tackle pressing quality and safety challenges and develop their skills. It describes a broad range of well-evidenced benefits that improvement approaches can deliver in key strategic and operational areas.

Report

Improving health and care at scale

The early work of integrated care systems at the forefront of improvement at scale.

21 November 2023

Headshots of Sam Allen and Penny Pereira

Audio

Improvement is more than an add on or ‘nice to have’

Sam Allen and Penny Pereira on improvement at system level, the untapped potential and the power of community.

6 December 2023

Audio

Prof Sir Chris Ham: We need a culture of commitment to improvement, not compliance

Prof Sir Chris Ham on system improvement, good practice and shifting the dial on health outcomes.

21 November 2023

Report

Developing system-wide improvement approaches

Report from the Q Community looking at five principles for working across local systems to develop shared improvement approaches.

Framework

Improving across health and care systems: a framework

The Q community's framework, developed to support those creating strategies to improve health and care across systems.

Report

Developing learning health systems in the UK: priorities for action

Driven by a diverse community of stakeholders, including health care professionals, patients and the public, a learning health system (LHS) uses internal and external knowledge to continually learn about and improve patient care. This report from the Health Foundation helps people understand LHSs and how they can be developed.

Peer Learning Programme Resources

Welcome pack

Reflection canvas