Monthly Archives: February 2020

Finding improvement case studies

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When looking at service development or improvement, the evidence can seem quite limited. In many cases other people may have implemented new ideas or services, but not written it up for publication in a journal.

The sources below provide case studies and examples of improvements or innovations, and may be useful as a way of learning from other people's experiences or getting ideas to implement in practice. It's not an exhaustive list and case studies will be available in other sources, such as individual Trust's websites.

Library staff can also find evidence to support you in developing services or innovations, and we offer an evidence search service.

Academy of Fabulous Stuff

Describes itself as ‘A social movement for sharing Health & Social Care Ideas, services and solutions that work’. Includes informal case studies of new innovations or ideas. The quality of reporting varies.

eWIN Workforce Information Network

eWIN is the NHS workforce information network designed to enable improvements in workforce development, efficiency and productivity.

To search, visit the Tools and Resources page, enter your search terms and select ‘Case Study’ before running the search.

Health Foundation

An independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK. To find case studies, run a search and filter to ‘Improvement projects’.

NHS Confederation

Membership body that brings together and speaks on behalf of all organisations that plan, commission and provide NHS services.

To find case studies, run a search and filter to ‘Case studies’ (under ‘Category’) then click ‘Apply Filters’.

NHS England

Search the publications database, and filter to ‘Case studies’. This is a very small collection.

NHS Improvement

Visit the Resources page, run a search and filter to ‘Shared Learning’.

NHS Improvement and NHS England have merged so this website may change, but new resources are still being added as of February 2020.

NICE Local Practice Case Studies

A number of case studies around implementing NICE Guidance in practice.

Staying informed of the latest evidence with KnowledgeShare

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KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised service to keep you up to date with new knowledge and evidence in healthcare. You save time by only seeing items relevant to you.

As well as covering the whole range of physical and mental health conditions and risk factors, KnowledgeShare covers a huge range of professional interests and several new categories have been added this month:

  • Coronavirus Infections

  • Freedom to Speak Up

  • Bullying and Harassment

New and existing subscribers can sign up for updates on these topics, and any others, by completing the evidence update form to ensure you get the latest information.

An easy way to stay ahead of the latest journal articles

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Want to keep up to date with your favourite healthcare journals? Want to know when articles on your favourite topics are published? The free Read by QxMD app allow you to do just this, and to access many full-text articles with a single tap.

Full-text is available for articles that are available from our subscriptions or where the article is open-access, and you can link to the journal holdings of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust, Staffordshire University or Keele University.

Read by QxMD is available as a desktop version, or for Android and iOS devices. On the mobile version, you can store your OpenAthens account to make downloading available articles even quicker.

Curate your own personalised healthcare journal, and share it with colleagues via email, Facebook and Twitter. Add papers to your own virtual collections, recommend papers, and discuss articles.

Stay ahead of the latest healthcare research and download the Read by QxMD app now.