Healthcare Improvement Framework - Bolton NHS FT

The Trust intends to award a contract to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to support the development of its Quality Management System (QMS), organisational improvement capability and transformation programme. IHI has been identified as the supplier offering the best strategic fit for the Trust's requirements, providing an established healthcare improvement framework that aligns quality improvement, leadership development, service transformation and organisational culture change within a single methodology. The appointment will support the Trust's objective of embedding a consistent approach to improvement across clinical, operational and corporate services, whilst developing sustainable internal capability and capacity. Engagement of an alternative provider would introduce a different framework and methodology, creating a risk to consistency, continuity and delivery of the Trust's wider transformation programme.