Improving Improvement: A Toolkit for Engineering Better Care
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Improving Improvement: A Toolkit for Engineering Better Care
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The challenges facing the health and social care system are considerable — with competing pressures from an ageing population, increasing numbers of patients with multiple morbidities, new technologies, and the need for increasing efficiencies. The complexity of the system, along with the multiple pressures it faces, mean that efforts to improve it often achieve only limited benefits and can have unforeseen consequences. Over the past two decades, there have been numerous calls to implement a more holistic systems approach to transform health and care to address the needs of a changing patient population. However, there has been no clear definition of what this might mean in practice.
This toolkit develops the approach presented in the Engineering Better Care report, providing practical guidance and resources to facilitate the application of a rigourous systems approach to health and care improvement. It is intended for improvers of all levels of experience and for challenges of all levels of complexity, and has the potential to have a transformative effect on health and care, with benefits for patients, service users, and providers.
This toolkit develops the approach presented in the Engineering Better Care report, providing practical guidance and resources to facilitate the application of a rigourous systems approach to health and care improvement. It is intended for improvers of all levels of experience and for challenges of all levels of complexity, and has the potential to have a transformative effect on health and care, with benefits for patients, service users, and providers.
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge Engineering Design Centre
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Improving Improvement: A Toolkit for Engineering Better Care. (n.d.). University of Cambridge. https://www.iitoolkit.com/
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