ABCi - Skills for Improvement - What is QI?

What is a Quality Improvement (QI)? 'Quality improvement is a particular, and very specific, approach to complex problem solving that relies on testing and learning (and failing many times). Quality improvement empowers those closest to the improvement opportunity to discover a better way, and should deeply involve both staff, patients, service users and carers in understanding the issue, identifying new ideas and testing these out to see which work within the given context.' (Amar Shah ELFT) This page will point you in the direction of resources which will give you an idea of what quality improvement science is all about . Quality Improvement methodology is based on ' Improvement Science ', an ever expanding bank of knowledge ustilising existing and new fields of evidence and best practice. There are numerous frameworks that are useful i...