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Improvement organisations

• The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) - leading innovator in health and health care improvement worldwide  
• The Health Foundation - supporting healthcare improvement for people in the UK Supporting health care improvement | The Health Foundation
• The Health Foundation Q community -  connecting people with improvement expertise across the UK
• NHS Horizons – supporting new change thinking in line with the priorities of the NHS
• Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)
• Kings Fund

Improvement toolkits

• Sustainable Change Model - NHS England
• Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit - IHI
• King's Fund QI Toolkits - King's Improvement Science
• A guide to quality improvement methods – HQIP
• Quality Improvement made simple - The Health Foundation 
• Improving Improvement Toolkit – University of Cambridge, applying an engineering approach to improve health and social care system

Useful platforms* 

• Life QI - Life QI is the platform we use to register and record progress of your QI projects. You can also use this platform to research improvement projects across NHS trusts in the UK.               
• Miro - An online based whiteboard tool with various templates to help you collate and organise ideas and project plan.  
• Lucid Charts - A simple online based tool for quickly creating process maps.
• Flinga – A collaborative whiteboard tool 
• Making Data Count - is an NHSE initiative that helps teams use data more effectively - turning numbers into insights to drive better, faster improvement.

*Please remember the rules of data - when using any of these platforms, make sure you don’t add commercially sensitive data (structure charts, tenders, business case, etc) OR Personal information (personal email, address, DOB, patient data, etc).

*When registering for a Life QI account, you will be asked to input your name and work email. This information will be stored outside of the UK by Life QI.