The Evidence
Becky Malby
Improving Quality Across the Health System in Leeds
Literature review
• Collaborative Quality Improvement
• Networks for Improvement
• Comparison to other initiatives to work at
scale/ system level e.g. Clarc?
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Key lessons from the literature that informs
LIQH Design
The Environment
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Local city-wide collaboratives may be able to present a more functional, viable and sustainable option
particularly if it has a well-supported and functional health delivery system already in place.
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There should be an equal and enabling atmosphere within collaborative underpinned by consistent
leadership that motivates and encourages all members to work as functioning unit.
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An ‘enabling environment buffering short-term factors that undermine success’, in [conjunction with]
effective learning strategies and methods to test [improvements] and scale up are [required] (Baker,
2011: p.13)
The Leadership
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The ability to create a vision for innovation and translate that vision into strategy is essential, and coordination between both policy and operational spheres is critical for supporting the implementation of
intricate innovations at large scale.
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It takes an extraordinary leader(s) to move this type of entity forward and to generate buy-in
(consensus) from all participants.
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Leadership of improvement collaboratives is the most important variable in operating or sustaining any
collaborative venture.
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Key lessons cont
The Partnerships
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Different organisations and individuals need time to learn and adapt to one another
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Managers must be willing to relinquish aspects of their territory and focus on sharing and caring
and concern for society (Axelsson and Axelsson, 2009) – creating a greater common purpose.
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’If improvement is to be maintained and/or continued, plans are needed at an early stage for
sustaining and building on the structures and capacities which the programme will create’
(Øvretveit and Klazinga, 2013).
The Teams
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‘Promoting professional cultures that support teamwork, continuous improvement and patient
engagement’ is essential for high performing collaborative systems (Baker, 2011: p.13)
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The most successful types of inter-organizational collaborations are those where grounded and
stable multidisciplinary teams have been long established and maintained over time (Axelsson
and Axelsson, 2006)
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The Change Approach
1.
‘Grounding the improvement network in what really inspires them, [and this] reframes improvement
work in a powerful way’(The Health Foundation., 2014: p.4).
2.
The notion of a magic bullet could be flawed in improvement collaboratives. Observers advise not to
bite off more that one can chew and to be realistic about what can be achieved (Øvretveit and
Klazinga, 2013).
3.
Tensions associated with sustainability include their vulnerability to an ‘evaporation effect’ in the post
project phase (Dixon-Woods, 2012: vi).
4.
It is important to be aware that two thirds of change processes were unsuccessfully implemented
(Jacobs et al., 2014). Effective change management and health care improvement are dependent
upon a holistic focus as opposed to a focus on singular systemic elements over others.
5.
Targeting of specific individuals and personalised training and development and also internal
marketing were effective (De Silva, 2014b
The Evaluation
1.
Acquiring sufficient data from QICs for the intention of evaluation purposes is a particularly tricky
endeavour (Watson and Scales, 2013, Ovretveit, 2011). An effect evaluation must be combined with a
process evaluation in the context of large scale health programmes (Raijmakers et al., 2014).
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The Proposition - Hypothesis
Quality improvement across a health system
requires :
• Systems leaders to relinquish territory in
service to a wider shared and visible common
purpose
• A professional culture of teamwork,
accountability, and improvement
• Shared decisions with patients and carers
• Evidence of impact
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What helps?
• An equal and enabling atmosphere within collaboratives underpinned
by consistent leadership that motivates and encourages all members
to work as functioning unit.
• ‘Enabling environment buffering short-term factors that undermine
success’, in [conjunction with]
• Effective learning strategies and
• Methods to test [improvements] and scale up are [required]
• Data from which to scrutinise variation and review improvement
• Time for different organisations and individuals to learn from and
adapt to each other
• Stable multidisciplinary teams maintained over time
• Patient engagement
• Not predicating one intervention over another – working with the
whole
• Having a plan for sustainability over the longer term, once the
excitement of the new has dissipated
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This Underpins the Leeds Model (LIQH as
technology)
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Why is this different from other places?
• Whole City
• Systems Leadership tied into the learning
• Learning programmes across whole patient
experience
• Clinical Priorities chosen by street level
practitioners based on what inspires them
matched to strategy level priorities
• Dedicated data and improvement resource
• Clinician owned and lead
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