External Resources

Clinical Human Factors Group The Clinical Human Factors Group is a broad coalition of healthcare professionals, managers and service-users who have partnered with experts in Human Factors from healthcare and other high-risk industries to campaign for change in the NHS.
Improvement Academy A team of improvement scientists, patient safety experts and clinicians who are committed to working with frontline services, patients and the public to deliver real and lasting change. They adopt a theory-based approach to improvement that's practical, tried and tested.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an independent not-for-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a leading innovator, convener, partner, and driver of results in health and health care improvement worldwide.
National Quality Forum The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan, membership-based organization that works to catalyze improvements in healthcare.
NIAA Health Services Research Centre The NIAA Health Services Research Centre (HSRC) was launched in March 2011 as a hub for world-class anaesthetic research, including perioperative medicine, pain and anaesthetic sub-specialty research. The centre aims to help national and international anaesthetic communities improve the care of patients.
NHS Education for Scotland Quality Improvement Zone The QI Hub website aims to support health and social care staff to use quality improvement approaches as a core part of their work.
NHS Improvement NHS Improvement have transferred into NHS England as their new Sustainable Improvement Team. The Sustainable Improvement Team will support the health system by providing improvement and change expertise.
Nuffield Trust The Nuffield Trust is an independent health charity. They aim to improve the quality of health care in the UK by providing evidence-based research and policy analysis and informing and generating debate.
PRISM Perioperative Improvement Science and Management PRISM is a teaching resource based on the Improvement Science curriculum from the Royal College of Anaesthetists. PRISM provides Improvement Science training focused on the needs of anaesthetists, the perioperative multi-disciplinary team and patients.
Research & Audit Federation of Trainees RAFT is a trainee-led national umbrella group that networks together the multiple UK regional anaesthetic research groups. It aims to facilitate annual national anaesthetic trainee-led projects, to improve access for trainees to clinical research & to promote the 'collaborative model' of 'team UK anaesthesia'.
Risky Business Conference Sharing ideas on Risk, Human Performance, Teams and Leaders.
Royal College of Anaesthetists Anaesthesia is the largest single hospital specialty in the NHS. The Royal College of Anaesthetists is the professional body responsible for the specialty throughout the UK, and it ensures the quality of patient care through the maintenance of standards in anaesthesia, critical care and pain medicine.
The American Health Quality Association The American Health Quality Association (AHQA) is an educational, not-for-profit national membership association dedicated to promoting and facilitating fundamental change that improves the quality of health care in America.
The Health Foundation The Health Foundation is an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK.
The Kings Fund The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve health and care in England. They help to shape policy and practice through research and analysis; develop individuals, teams and organisations; promote understanding of the health and social care system; and bring people together to learn, share knowledge and debate.
UCL/UCLH Surgical Outcomes Research Centre UCL SOuRCe's aim is to improve the quality of perioperative healthcare through a comprehensive programme of health services research and innovation in improvement science.