Books Journals Current awareness
Databases Evidence-based Practice
This site is maintained and hosted by Discovery Library, Derriford Hospital
and gives details of selected information resources covering
Quality Improvement
for staff/students on placement
across the Plymouth, SWASFT & SCAS health community.
Click here to visit our main library website.
If you have problems or comments/suggestions about resources please
phone 39111 or email library.mailbox@nhs.net marking FAO Laura.
Electronic books
Accelerating performance : how organizations can mobilize, execute, and transform with agility
Achieving high quality care : practical experience from NICE.
Accelerating health care transformation with lean and innovation : the Virginia Mason experience.
Advance your emergency department : leading in a new era.
Building a Culture of Patient Safety Through Simulation : An Interprofessional Learning Model
Clinical governance : improving the quality of healthcare for patients and service users
Creating a Lean Culture : Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions
Effective change manager’s handbook : essential guidance to the change management body of knowledge.
Essential Simulation in Clinical Education
The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’
Frugal Innovation : how to do more with less
Hospital transformation: from failure to success and beyond
Human Factors in Healthcare: Level One
Human factors in the healthcare setting : a pocket guide for clinical instructors
Humble inquiry: the gentle art of asking instead of telling
Humble leadership: the power of relationships, openness and trust
Improving Patient Care : The Implementation of Change in Health Care
Improving patient safety: tools and strategies for quality improvement
Innovations in Healthcare Management : Cost-Effective and Sustainable Solutions
Launching and Leading Change Initiatives in Health Care Organizations : Managing Successful Projects
Lead: 50 models for success in work and life
Leadership Journey in Health Care : Virginia Mason’s Story
The leader’s guide to coaching & mentoring: how to use soft skills to get hard results
The leader’s guide to impact: how to use soft skills to get hard results
Leading for organisational change: building purpose, motivation and belonging
Leading health care transformation : a primer for clinical leaders.
Leading high-reliability organizations in healthcare.
Lean Prescription : Powerful Medicine for Our Ailing Healthcare System
Lean six sigma business transformation for dummies.
The learning imperative: raising performance in organisations by improving learning
Leveraging Lean in the Emergency Department : Creating a Cost Effective, Standardized, High Quality, Patient-Focused Operation
A Life in Error : From Little Slips to Big Disasters
Limits of expertise : rethinking pilot error and the causes of airline accidents.
Managing Quality: an Essential Guide and Resource Gateway
Managing Successful Programmes
Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2
Mistake Proofing for Lean Healthcare
Operational Research for Emergency Planning in Healthcare-Volume 1 and Volume 2. (up to 3 simultaneous users)
Organizational Innovation by Integrating Simplification: Learning from Buurtzorg Nederland
The patient revolution: how we can heal the healthcare system
Patient safety and healthcare improvement at a glance
Patient Safety : A Human Factors Approach
Patient Safety : Perspectives on Evidence, Information and Knowledge Transfer
Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare : Engaging Staff by Building Daily Lean Management Systems
Practice development in nursing and healthcare.
Practice development workbook for nursing, health and social care teams.
PRINCE2 in action: project management in real terms
Problem solving for healthcare workers: how to get better – lessons can be learned
The project book: the complete guide to consistently delivering great projects.
Project management checklists for dummies.
Project management for dummies
Quality and safety in neurosurgery
Rethinking patient safety (up to 3 simultaneous users)
Safety at the sharp end : a guide to non-technical skills
Transformative Change Pocketbook
Journals
Full A-Z list of all journals– you will need an NHS Athens account- click here to register.
Selected Quality Improvement journals below
If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
Databases (handout)
Search the NHS healthcare databases:
AMED- topics for allied health professionals
British Nursing Index (BNI)- incl topics for nurses and care staff
CINAHL- international nursing & allied health incl nurses and care staff
EMBASE- European biomedicine– good for pharmacology & drug therapy
EMCARE-international nursing & allied health
HMIC- health service management & organisation incl grey literature
MEDLINE- most medical/surgical topics
PsycINFO- useful for health psychology/recovery
Note- you will need an NHS Athens login.
Databases contain bibliographic records i.e. references. Whilst you won’t have fulltext access to all the articles, for some journals there will be a link to online access or details of where the print journal can be found within the library.
If we don’t hold your required article you can consider making an article request via the library.
See our main library website for details of our information skills training programme and literature searching support services.
Current Awareness
You may find the following external page useful for keeping up-to-date.
- Health Services Management bulletin incl. Quality & Transformation section
aggregated newsfeed from the national Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH), managed by East Midlands NHS Library & Knowledge Services.
Evidence Based Practice/education
A range of evidence-based resources are available to help inform patient care including:
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- BMJ Best Practice (don’t use Internet Explorer, choose alternative browser)
Evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion offering step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention.
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here).
When prompted, set up a personal account to download free App
- BMJ Best Practice (don’t use Internet Explorer, choose alternative browser)
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- BNF and BNF for Children–should work automatically on NHS networked machine, if outside NHS network login with NHS Athens account.
Click here to find out about the free BNF/BNFC App.
- BNF and BNF for Children–should work automatically on NHS networked machine, if outside NHS network login with NHS Athens account.
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- ClinicalKey – clinical insight search tool which also gives access to over 1100 electronic books and 500 journals and multimedia resources
Note you will need a local NHS Athens account (register here)
- ClinicalKey – clinical insight search tool which also gives access to over 1100 electronic books and 500 journals and multimedia resources
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- Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS)– provided by NICE. Summaries of the current evidence base & practical guidance on best practice for >300 primary care presentations
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- Cochrane Library– collection of databases (details here) containing different types of high-quality, independent evidence such as Systematic Reviews, RCTs and Health Technology Assessments.
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- NICE Evidence– access to authoritative clinical & non-clinical evidence/best practice
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- TRIP Database– clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.
