Background Large-scale improvement programmes are a frequent response to quality and
safety problems in health systems globally, but have mixed impact. The extent to which they …

Background: Technology-related research on people with dementia and their carers often
aims to enable people to remain living at home for longer and prevent unnecessary hospital …

Clinical tools for use in practice—such as medicine reconciliation charts, diagnosis support
tools and track-and-trigger charts—are endemic in healthcare, but relatively little attention is …

This Element introduces and critically reflects on the contribution of implementation science
to healthcare improvement efforts. Grounded in several disciplines, implementation science …

Online mental health interventions have received attention for their potential to bypass
barriers that stop men from seeking mental health help from a health professional. However …

Few interventions that succeed in improving healthcare locally end up becoming spread and
sustained more widely. This indicates that we need to think differently about spreading …

Collaboration-based approaches to healthcare improvement attract much attention. They
involve networks of people coming together to cooperate around a common interest, with …

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the shifting role of healthcare
evidence in public health presentations. This article investigates the rhetoric of those …

Ethics involves examining values and identifying what is good, right, and justified–and why.
Diverse values and ethical issues run through healthcare improvement, but they are not …

Background Co-designing healthcare interventions is gaining recognition as a novel and
collaborative method. Co-design involves end-users from the start, ensuring that an …