{"id":1054,"date":"2025-10-13T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:17:46","slug":"m3-population-health-management-quality-improvement-competitors-or-collaborators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/2025\/10\/13\/m3-population-health-management-quality-improvement-competitors-or-collaborators\/","title":{"rendered":"M3: Population health management &amp; quality improvement: competitors or collaborators?"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div><br><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Monday 9 March 2026 | 09:30-12:30<br>Stream: Leading<br>Session format: Workshop<br><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p><br><\/div><br><div>\u00a0<\/div><br><div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Typical approaches to population health management focus on large populations, use data sets to understand need, and utilise these insights to better design systems, pathways and care delivery. Compare this to quality improvement, which is highly local, involving clinicians and patients in testing and iterating change ideas. Are the two approaches diametrically opposed? Or is there a way to bring both together?<\/span><\/div><br><div><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We will share experience from two parts of London \u2013 North West and North East. We will share how we have taken organisational and whole system approaches to population health and equity that integrate with existing approaches to quality improvement. At the heart of this conundrum lies an articulation of the management system and recognising the difference between planning and improvement \u2013 both of which are essential.<\/span><\/div><br><div><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We will describe practical steps that participants can take with their own staff and communities to apply quality improvement and population health approaches.<\/span><\/div><br><div>\u00a0<\/div><br><div><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-sheets-root=\"1\">After this session, participants will be able to:<\/span><\/div><br><ul><br><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-sheets-root=\"1\">Understand the core principles of population health management, and differentiate this from quality improvement<\/span><\/li><br><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-sheets-root=\"1\">Consider how to integrate both into a single management system, with an equity focus<\/span><\/li><br><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-sheets-root=\"1\">Identify practical steps to identify a population segment, understand assets and needs, and apply QI and population health approaches<\/span><\/li><br><\/ul><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/2025\/10\/13\/dominique-allwood\/\">Dominique Allwood<\/a><\/strong> Imperial College Health Partners; UK<br><\/span><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/2025\/10\/13\/amar-shah\/\">Amar Shah<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0NHS England; UK<\/span><\/p><br><p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br><p>\u00a0<\/p><br><div>\u00a0<\/div><br><br><p><\/p><br>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 9 March 2026 | 09:30-12:30Stream: LeadingSession format: Workshop\u00a0Typical approaches to population health management focus on large populations, use data sets to understand need, and utilise these insights to better design systems, pathways and care delivery. Compare this to quality improvement, which is highly local, involving clinicians and patients in testing and iterating change ideas. 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