Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant literature: Table 1

Formal evaluations of programmes are an important source of learning about the challenges faced in improving quality in healthcare and how they can be addressed. The authors aimed to integrate lessons from evaluations of the Health Foundation's improvement programmes with relevant literature.

The authors analysed evaluation reports relating to five Health Foundation improvement programmes using a form of 'best fit' synthesis, where a pre-existing framework was used for initial coding and then updated in response to the emerging analysis. A rapid narrative review of relevant literature was also undertaken.