Several tools have been selected for the Quality Management System, with three recommended below for each component as a starting point.
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Planning for Quality
Strategic gap analysis
A tool that helps you find what is missing. It looks at where you are now and where you want to be.
Three horizons
A tool that helps build a long-term vision for a system and the steps required to get there.
Options appraisal
Guidance that helps you to make decisions. It takes people through each stage of a proposed process.
Improving Quality
Model for improvement
A tool to help you with standardised methodologies appropriate to the problem (available on TURAS Learn).
Plan do study act (PDSA)
A tool that helps to test an idea by temporarily trialing a change and assessing its impact (available on TURAS Learn).
Maintaining Quality
Data visualisation
A tool that is an example of measurement dashboards and visual displays of data (available on TURAS Learn).
Statistical control charts
A tool to help you with the use of statistical process control charts (available on TURAS Learn).
Visual management boards
The Care Assurance and Improvement Resource (CAIR) helps to visualise data on the quality of care.
Quality Assurance
Inspections and reviews
Information on the safe delivery of care in acute hospitals inspection programme.
Data collection and analysis
A tool to help you with the use of statistical process control charts (available on TURAS Learn).
Data collection and analysis
A surgical safety checklist that can be used for internal quality assurance (available on TURAS Learn).