Launch of heart failure document to improve quality of care

The latest 'Focus on' document outlining the features of high quality heart failure care has been published by the Delivering Quality and Value team. ‘Focus on: heart failure’ highlights the ideal pathway and key characteristics that optimise quality of care and efficiency for heart failure patients. The prevalence of heart failure is increasing with the majority of cases due to coronary heart disease and hypertensive heart disease at a cost to the NHS of £625 million a year.
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New Guide to Enhancing Outpatient Care for Patients with Heart Failure

In an ongoing focus on improvement strategies customized for ambulatory care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is pleased to offer a new “Getting Started Guide” that builds on the promising work in the hospital setting by applying known best practices to the outpatient care of individuals with heart failure. Download the free Guide

NHS Improvement Portal for Cancer, Cardiac, Diagnostics and Stroke Services

NHS Improvement is a newly formed national improvement programme working with clinical networks and NHS organisations to transform, deliver and sustain improvements across the entire pathway of care in cancer, cardiac, diagnostics and stroke services. This new national improvement initiative aims to build on their inimitable knowledge and experience and continue to pilot, test and support practical implementation of service redesign methods. Through the continuous development and support of clinical networks and individual pilot sites, NHS Improvement demonstrates a "how to" approach to achieve sustainable effective pathways and systems to improve the efficiency and quality of NHS services. Find out more here.