Oxford Professional Practice: Handbook of Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Peter Lachman M.D. MPH. M.B.B.Ch., FRCPCH, FCP (SA), FRCPI is Lead Faculty Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in Dublin, where he directs the Leadership and Quality programme to develop clinical leaders in quality improvement. He was Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) from 1st May 2016 to 30th April 2021. He was a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI in 2005-2006 and developed the quality improvement programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was the Deputy Medical Director with the lead for Patient Safety. He was also a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Free Hospital in London specialising in the challenge of long term conditions for children. He is the lead editor of the OUP Handbook on Patient Safety published in April 2022; and Co-Editor of the OUP Handbook on Medical Leadership and Management published in December 2022.

1: Introduction to quality in healthcare
2: Challenges for quality improvement
3: Improvement science
4: Implementation science and quality improvement
5: Equity and quality improvement
6: Sustainable quality improvement
7: Economics of quality improvement
8: Coproducing health and person centred care
9: Standards in healthcare
10: The lens of psychology
11: How to make change happen
12: Appreciation of systems
13: Understanding variation
14: Lens of knowledge
15: Strategies for measurement
16: Measurement of person centred care
17: Application of quality improvement - preparing your quality improvement project
18: Application of quality improvement - next steps
19: Quality improvement, research, ethics and publishing
20: Resource hyperlinks