Main description:

Improving health care is one of the most pressing and
complex challenges facing western societies. Beyond the Toolkit provides practical help, hope, energy and ideas
about how to combine the toolkit of improvement methods with the leadership and
humanity required to ensure success in practice over time. It argues that
understanding the methods is necessary but not sufficient. Beyond the Toolkit is readable and accessible, packed full of learning, insights, research
and experiences, appealing equally to those setting out on the journey of
improvement as well as those ready to make improvements on a larger scale. It will leave readers informed, energised and
hopeful about their own ability to make a difference in their local health
contexts. Beyond the Toolkit
includes chapters written
by leaders in health care who have been involved in improving the quality of
patient care in practice, and who share their experiences, warts and all. These
stories are powerful, empathetic, first-person narratives that are very
different from the sanitised case studies that are often published.

The authors
co-lead GenerationQ, a Master's programme in Leading for Quality Improvement
for senior leaders in health, social care and health charities. The programme
is sponsored by the Health Foundation and designed and delivered at Ashridge
Executive Education, Hult Business School.