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1. Structured query language (SQL) for statistical process control

   Improvement tool 21 Nov 19

   Part of: Making data count

   This test structured query language (SQL) script provides the basic foundations to create a simple statistical process control (SPC) individual moving range (XmR) chart.

   Operational performance | Quality | Quality improvement

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2. Delayed transfer of care (DTOC) improvement tool

   Improvement tool 14 Nov 19

   This tool has been developed to enable trusts, clinical commissioning groups and local authorities to understand where delayed transfers of care are in their area or system.

   Operational performance | Quality | Quality improvement

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3. Electronic staff record — supporting medical productivity data collection

   Improvement tool 8 Nov 19

   This guide is to support trusts with the 2018/19 data collection process and help improve electronic staff record (ESR) data quality.

   Operational performance

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4. Pathology networks toolkit

   Improvement tool 4 Nov 19

   To help NHS providers implement their pathology network and to enable the NHS to share best practice, we are developing a toolkit of how to guides and templates.

   Operational performance | Quality | Quality improvement

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5. Retaining your clinical staff: a practical improvement resource

   Improvement tool 31 Oct 19

   Part of: Staff engagement and communication , Recruiting, developing and retaining staff , Developing a retention strategy , Effective use of data and diagnostics , Supporting new starters and newly qualified staff , Flexible working to support work-life balance , Supporting the experienced workforce , Career planning and development , Health and wellbeing, rewards and benefits , Improving staff retention

   This revamped retention improvement resource outlines key steps to improving retention of clinical staff. We have distilled advice from interviews with trust HR directors, directors of nursing and medical directors.

   Operational performance

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6. Statistical process control tool

   Improvement tool 25 Oct 19

   Part of: Making data count , Criteria-led discharge

   Statistical process control (SPC) is an analytical technique that plots data over time. It helps us understand variation and in so doing guides us to take the most appropriate action.

   Quality | Quality improvement

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7. Enabling staff movement toolkit

   Improvement tool 25 Sep 19

   Our national programme aims to improve the pre-employment experience of doctors in training by enabling staff to move seamlessly between NHS organisations. It seeks to break down unnecessary bureaucracy, promote standardisation of policies, processes and systems, and reduce burden on HR teams.

   Operational performance | Workforce

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8. Same day emergency care CQUIN

   Improvement tool 10 Sep 19

   Part of: Same day emergency care

   Same day emergency care (SDEC) aims to benefit both patients and the healthcare system by reducing waiting times and unnecessary hospital admissions.
   

   Quality

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9. Capturing staff experience and the DNA of Care project

   Improvement tool | Source: The user community 8 Aug 19

   Part of: Health and wellbeing, rewards and benefits

   The DNA of Care project captures the experiences of staff through digital stories, exploring the intertwined relationship between patient care and staff wellbeing, and the part they play in shaping organisational cultures.

   Quality

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10. Introduction to costing priciples

    Improvement tool 5 Aug 19

    The 2018 webinar series designed to give a practical overview of the transition to patient-level costing in the NHS.

    Finance and use of resources

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11. Demand and capacity high complexity model

    Improvement tool 31 Jul 19

    Part of: Elective care: demand and capacity models

    This model will help you understand the demand and capacity needs of services with a complex pathway.

    Elective care | Finance and use of resources | Operational performance | Patient experience and involvement | Quality | Quality improvement

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12. Corporate services productivity toolkit

    Improvement tool 15 Jul 19

    To help NHS providers implement their corporate services transformation and to enable the NHS to share best practice, we are developing a toolkit of 'how to' guides and templates.

    Operational performance | Quality

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13. Reducing length of hospital stays — national discharge patient tracking list (DPTL)

    Improvement tool 12 Jul 19

    Part of: Guide to reducing long hospital stays

    The DPTL supports you to meet our ambition to reduce the proportion of beds occupied by patients who have been in hospital for 21 days or over by 40%, as set out in planning guidance for 2019/20.

    Operational performance

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14. Chief Nursing Officer safer staffing fellowship programme

    Improvement tool 5 Jul 19

    Part of: Safer staffing

    We have designed this programme to help trusts develop evidence-based approaches to effective staffing decisions, taking into account all elements that contribute to safe, effective care and great patient experience.

    Operational performance

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15. Workforce stress and the supportive organisation — a framework for improvement

    Improvement tool | Source: The user community 3 Jul 19

    Commissioned by Health Education England, this framework has been produced by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust's national workforce skills development unit to help organisations minimise the impact of workforce stress.

    Leadership and improvement capability | Mental health | Strategic change | Workforce

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