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Update from RCP Quality Improvement: making quality improvement mainstream for physicians and teams

Author(s) -

John Dean

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

future healthcare journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2514-6653

pISSN - 2514-6645

DOI - 10.7861/futurehosp.5-2-86

Subject(s) - quality management , quality (philosophy) , mainstream , medicine , operations management , service (business) , nursing , business , marketing , political science , engineering , philosophy , epistemology , law

In this journal in 2016 the launch of the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP's) Quality Improvement Hub was reported, along with the rationale for this.1 More recently, the final report on the RCP's Future Hospital Programme, Delivering the Future Hospital , identified that there is a need for the RCP to support service improvement much more widely, in a way which is patient-centred and physician-led.2Professional societies like the RCP have an important role in making quality improvement a core part of professionalism. This should be done through:Following a period of initial exploration and development, the RCP Quality Improvement Hub has become RCP Quality Improvement (RCPQI). It is now building on the considerable learning of the Future Hospital Programme to support physicians and their teams to deliver improvements in services and the quality of patient care.RCPQI aims to:

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