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SUMMARY:What’s new (and what isn’t) in improving quality and safety in
  healthcare - Professor Mary Dixon-Woods\, RAND Professor of Health Servic
 es Research\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20161011T164500Z
DTEND:20161011T184500Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Lloyd
DESCRIPTION:BOOKING ESSENTIAL via http://bit.ly/29UY1su\n\nProfessor Dixon
 -Wood's Lecture will be introduced by the Regius Professor of Physic\, Pat
 rick Maxwell\, and followed by a reception to which all guests are warmly 
 invited.\n\n*Abstract*\n\nAlthough quality improvement (QI) is frequently 
 advocated as a way of addressing quality and safety in healthcare\, eviden
 ce of its effectiveness has remained very mixed. This lecture will help to
  explain why. It will show that QI has evolved through a separate genealog
 y from clinical science\, and consequently suffers problems of credibility
  in some of the target audiences. There is insufficient attention to rigor
 ous evaluation of improvement and to sharing the lessons of successes and 
 failures. Too many QI interventions are under-specified\, and treated as 
 ‘magic bullets’ that will produce improvement in any situation\, regar
 dless of context. Fidelity in the application of QI methods is often mixed
 . QI work is often pursued through time-limited\, small-scale projects\, l
 ed by professionals who may lack the expertise\, power or resources to ins
 tigate the changes required. Too much improvement work is undertaken in is
 olation at a local level\, failing to pool resources and develop collectiv
 e solutions\, and introducing new hazards in the process. The lecture conc
 ludes by offering suggestions on how to improve improvement.\n\n*Biography
 *\n\nA fellow of both the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of Me
 dical Sciences\, Mary Dixon-Woods leads a programme of research focused on
  patient safety and healthcare improvement\, healthcare ethics\, and metho
 dological innovation in studying healthcare. She is Deputy Editor-in-Chief
  of BMJ Quality and Safety. She holds honorary positions as an adjunct pro
 fessor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at J
 ohns Hopkins University and a visiting adjunct professor at Dartmouth Coll
 ege. She was\, in 2012\, one of the first recipients of a Wellcome Trust S
 enior Investigator Award. She served on the National Advisory Group on the
  Safety of Patients in England\, which produced the Berwick report in 2013
 .  She served on the review of information technology in the NHS led by Pr
 ofessor Bob Wachter\, which reported in September 2016.
LOCATION:Cancer Research UK Institute\, Li Ka Shing Centre\, Robinson Way\
 , CB2 0RE\, Cambridge
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