Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: Quality (and Safety) Organisations come and go but ... care domains ...

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Quality (and Safety) Organisations come and go but ... care domains ...

"The NHS Improving Quality delivery team has developed and tested a new measure of "energy for change" which is helping to support innovation and improve service delivery." p.26.

"The energy index is evidence based - built up from a combination of academic and desk research - coupled with interviews with NHS staff." pp.26-27.

The 'energy domains' are:

individual
|
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group
psychological

intellectual

physical




social





spiritual


Land, M. (2014) Pedal to the metal to improve the NHS, HSJ, 7 March, 124: 6389. pp.26-27.

Another perspective is provided by The Kings Fund, from:

"Improving quality in the English NHS"

A brief history of policies on quality of care in England

...
  • the establishment and later disbandment of the National Patient Safety Agency to collect and analyse data about adverse events
  • the establishment and later disbandment of the NHS Modernisation Agency as a central support system for improvement
  • the establishment and later disbandment of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement as a (smaller) successor to the Modernisation Agency
  • the establishment and later disbandment of NHS Improving Quality as a successor to the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
  • the establishment and later disbandment of strategic health authorities as regionalised resource centres for a range of tasks, including facilitating quality improvement pp.6-7.

Ham, Chris, Berwick, Don, Dixon, Jennifer, Improving quality in the English NHS: a strategy for action. London : The King's Fund, 2016, pp. 6-7.


The truly relevant - critical domains have remained a constant over the years, decades even.
 
Clearly, this is evidence-based -this is rocket science...?

How many times do we 'reinvent' this - evidence and desk research based...?

See also*: https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2014/08/compare-and-contrast-potentia-energy.html

*Yes, I'm starting to repeat myself!