10 Top Tips from Don Berwick

In his recent speech during the 60th birthday celebrations of the NHS President and CEO Institute for Healthcare Improvement USA Don Berwick offered top 10 tips for the NHS to get even better. Read his speech here.

Health Care Reinvented: Discussions with Don Berwick

Which way forward for the quality improvement and patient safety movements? Join IHI’s President and CEO, Donald Berwick, MD, for a series of conversations with IHI Director of Communications, Madge Kaplan. Each monthly installment offers Dr. Berwick’s latest thinking on the major issues of the day and how health care professionals, health care leaders, and patients and families can bring about significant reform.

If you only read one thing on service improvement...

...read this. A primer on leading the improvement of systems by Don Berwick.

The Science of Improvement

In a new article in The Journal of American Medical Association, Don Berwick, Chief Executive of the IHI, argues for smoother collaboration between “2 great streams of endeavor” that he sees as “often in unhappy tension” – academicians advancing medicine through formal clinical trials, and frontline caregivers in the quality movement who judiciously adjust research methods to get results. Read the full article here.

Don Berwick's Eating Soup with a Fork

In this December 2007 National Forum keynote speech, Don Berwick (President and Chief Executive, Institute for Healthcare Innovation [IHI]) examines the role of evidence and the importance of context in promoting improvement. The way ahead, he says, requires both. Watch the free download here.