Matthew Hill
matthew-hill.bsky.social
Matthew Hill
@matthew-hill.bsky.social
Head of Insight, Evaluation and Research, Q, The Health Foundation
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Our new insight highlights how health care leaders can set clear vision, direction and culture for their organisation through a Quality Management System (QMS) approach.
February 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Take a look at our Quality Management Systems resources. Let me know if anything needs adding q.health.org.uk/resources/qu...
Quality Management Systems: resources to help you get started
Draw learning and inspiration from different frameworks, tools and methods that others have used.
q.health.org.uk
January 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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This is a great opportunity to get involved in research, contribute to data collection, and shape how important aspects of perioperative care will be measured! #surgerysky #qisky #medsky
📣 Calling all UK-based healthcare professionals with an interest in perioperative care! 📣

Could you help identify which metrics would be best to measure care before, during, and after surgery? To find out more and take part, visit ths.im/3O4pBGt
December 4, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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On Thursday, the govt will publish its Plan for Change. This will include key 'milestones' for each of the govt's five missions. Targets such as these have been used extensively by previous govts trying to improve public service performance. But how effective are targets?

A short🧵on the evidence:
December 2, 2024 at 8:37 PM
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I made a starter pack of all the amazing @instituteforgov.bsky.social experts I could find on here, that you need in your feed! go.bsky.app/EQy9vx9
November 12, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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Big news from Guardian Towers this morning...

The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s X from official accounts.

(I'm staying put - for now - as feel it's important to at least try to retain some balance there).

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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Our paper looking critically at digital access in primary care, just out in print issue of SHI:

'The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice'

#medsky #academicsky

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The reflexive imperative in the digital age: Using Archer’s ‘fractured reflexivity’ to theorise widening inequities in UK general practice
‘Reflexivity’, as used by Margaret Archer, means creative self-mastery that enables individuals to evaluate their social situation and act purposively within it. People with complex health and social...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 13, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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🤔 Is technology really improving patient care in general practice?

Latest study from @oohgpwales.bsky.social, @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social reveals unexpected effects of rapid technology adoption in healthcare.

Discover their insights in our latest blog post 👉
Quality of care: compromised in contemporary general practice?
The Remote by Default 2 project sheds light on how technological transformation in healthcare has often backfired, adding new inefficiencies and exacerbating inequalities rather than improving care. R...
www.phc.ox.ac.uk
November 13, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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New post just out:

Answering your questions on Trump, global consequences and UK politics.

This is a long one - we got a lot of questions!

(£/free trial)

samf.substack.com/p/answering-...
November 13, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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This is such a great piece of research from @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social. Convincing causal evidence that youth club closures in London led to more teenagers engaging in criminal behaviour (around 1 extra offender for every 500 local teenagers) and worse educational outcomes at age 16.
NEW: The closure of youth clubs in the 2010s led to increased offending and worse GSCE results.

Teenagers entitled to free school meals were most affected.

Read @carmenvillaecon’s briefing: https://buff.ly/4fIiRK7

Read the working paper: https://buff.ly/3APnHq6
November 13, 2024 at 8:50 AM