Quality Improvement

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Introduction to Quality Improvement

A systematic quality improvement approach benefits hospices and all palliative care organisations. These presentations show the benefit of embedding QI into any project.

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Improving hospice care across the UK

A key element of our work is supporting excellence in hospice care, ensuring hospices are fully equipped to provide quality care for patients and their families.

Audit tools for measuring quality

Audit tools for measuring quality

More information about the tools we offer to support hospices to audit their services.
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Bereavement Project Resources toolkit

This page brings together resources to share our learning and to help other hospices as they continue to adapt their services.
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Care homes and hospices

Care homes have an important role in the delivery of palliative and end of life care. Explore resources to help hospices build relationships with care homes.
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Community Development

Explore resources from Hospice UK’s Community Development toolkit, which helps care providers listen, discover and learn from their communities.
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Find resources and research to support Hospices' work with frailty care as part of the Extending Frailty Care grants programme

Extending Frailty Care Programme

Find resources and information to support hospices to deliver frailty attuned models of care.
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Infection Prevention and Control

Preventing and controlling infection is a fundamental component of good care. It’s essential to patient, visitor and staff safety and wellbeing.
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Patient Safety Project

The Patient Safety Project aims to improve patient safety in hospices and accelerate the sharing of related learning and improvement work.
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Supporting family and carers

Find resources on supporting family carers who are caring for people living with a life-limiting or terminal condition.
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Analysing Patient Centred Outcome Measures with PCOM360

The PCOM360 tool helps palliative care services analyse and display Patient Centred Outcome Measures (PCOMs)
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Quality Assurance: we help ensure hospices are fully equipped to provide quality care for patients and their families

Quality assurance

We help ensure hospices are fully equipped to provide quality care for patients and their families.

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Coronavirus Guidance

This page provides links to official guidance and advice about COVID-19, and explains how to find out what hospices are doing in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

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