TY - JOUR T1 - Strategy to improve the quality of care in England JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 182 LP - 187 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.3-3-182 VL - 3 IS - 3 AU - Sheila Leatherman AU - Tim Gardner AU - Aoife Molloy AU - Sara Martin AU - Jennifer Dixon Y1 - 2016/10/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/3/182.abstract N2 - The Five Year Forward View describes ‘closing the care and quality gap’ as one of three strategic challenges facing the English NHS by 2020. The need for a coherent national strategy for achieving high-quality, affordable care has rarely been more pressing, but how effectively do existing national decisions and interventions support clinicians delivering care on the front line? And, in a complex and dynamic environment with multiple players, how should the health service move forward to develop a balanced strategy for quality that accommodates longer term goals as well as more immediate political priorities? Research by a team at the Health Foundation has assessed how the array of organisations, initiatives and approaches to quality stack up as an emergent strategy. Four concepts were used to provide a yardstick for quality-related policies and activities to help identify potential imbalances, gaps and duplication. The findings of this work, together with suggested steps to rectify the issues identified, are described here. ER -