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To strengthen the evidence base for improving healthcare.

Safer maternity care can protect babies from avoidable harm and save health systems from rising litigation costs. Yet attempts to improve maternity care don’t always have the intended impact. Some improvement projects focus on implementing and evaluating an intervention – like a checklist or care bundle – but may not...

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How to be a very safe maternity unit: An ethnographic study

24 January 2019

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It is not enough to say you are committed to employee voice. Employees in healthcare organisations need to feel comfortable speaking up when they witness conduct that could be harmful to themselves, their colleague or their patients. Yet they are often silent about transgressive behaviours. And when they do speak...

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Improving employee voice about transgressive or disruptive behaviour: A case study

21 November 2018

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Co-created by two exceptional organisations - the University of Cambridge and the Health Foundation – THIS Institute is founded on the guiding principle that efforts to improve care should be based on the highest quality evidence.

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Bradford Institute for Health Research. Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen. National Voices. Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Florence Nightingale Foundation. Healthcare Design Group, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. RAND Europe. Health Education England. PROMPT Maternity Foundation. Collaborative Quality Improvement. Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning at Nottingham University Business School. Homerton College, University of Cambridge. LSE Health, London School of Economics. HSMC, University of Birmingham. Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research (SAPPHIRE) Group. Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge. Clinical Operational Research Unit, University College London. Swansea Centre for Improvement and Innovation in Health and Social Care. Centre for Implementation Science. Barts Institute of Population Health Sciences. Department of Health for Northern Ireland. McPin Foundation. Point of Care Foundation. Kings Improvement Science, Kings College London.

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