20th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care

• Learn more about this year’s keynote presentations.

• Share your improvement story as a poster.

• Enroll on or before October 3 to save $100.

• Take a Campaign experience survey.

• Download the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

• Get advice from Campaign Mentor Hospitals.

In the Spotlight

• On its 60th anniversary, Don Berwick explains in the BMJ why he admires the UK's National Health System and how it can be even better.

• Mobility matters for many ventilated patients and getting up and walking, tubes and all, is possible. Read about promising work.

• Applying the aviation concept of performance envelopes to improve safety is introduced by IHI faculty, Charles Denham.

• Calling on hospital board members to engage in quality and safety! Read the latest IHI article in Healthcare Executive.

• Lean principles and “a day in the ED” simulations can help hospitals reduce waste and frustrating back-ups.

• NEW reports on results from teams working with IHI: Decreasing Harm by Standardizing Care.

• More is not (always) better in health care! Listen to the latest in an audio series with Don Berwick.

• IHI Innovation Series white paper: Seven Leadership Leverage Points
  
  

In the News

• Selected weekly health care news items.

IHI Strategic Initiatives

• Developing Countries (South Africa and Malawi)
• New Health Partnerships
• Safer Patients Initiative
• Transforming Care at the Bedside
• Triple Aim