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Friends,
The US Institute of Medicine has just published an interesting new report:
"Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century". It
is of interest for a couple of reasons. First, it's the nearest thing to a
US version of the NHS Plan that we likely to see and there are a number of
remarkable similaries (given the difference in the systems) between this
plan and ours (something very like National Service Frameworks, an
Innovation Fund, suggested support processes that read very like the
National Patients Access Team/Modernisation Agency model); and secondly,
the conceptual underpinnings are explicitly based on seeing the US health
system as a set of complex adaptive systems. There is an Annex (B) written
by Paul Plsek on 'Redesigning Health Care with Insights from the Science of
Cpomplex Adaptive Systems'.
Interesting to see CAS getting such a high, official profile.
The report is available here [http://www.nap.edu/books/0309072808/html/]
Regards,
Peter Dick
Department of Health
QH
