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Are clinicians engaged in quality improvement? Simplistic approaches to change end in disappointment

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May 1 2011
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Wooden bricks spelling quality and toppling over

A Health Foundation review reports that active involvement of clinicians with quality improvement remains largely unrealised. With the challenge of having to do more with fewer resources, engagement becomes ever more critical yet the NHS “often relies on overly simplistic rational-linear approaches to change that:  end in disappointment which could be predicted by the ‘person [read the full story…]

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