title: How nurses can implement the high impact actions to improve quality and cost effectiveness.
abstract: In November 2009 the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement published a list of eight high impact actions for nursing and midwifery and stated that, if implemented across the NHS, the actions could save over pounds 9 bn a year while improving the quality of care. The NHS Institute has now published a selection of case studies from different settings demonstrating successful initiatives relating to each action and a range of other supporting material. This article, the first in a Nursing Times series summarising the main information on how the high impact actions can be achieved, sets the context for the initiative. Subsequent articles will discuss the individual actions and offer practical information on implementation.
authors.affiliation: NHS South Central.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fenton
authors.forename: Lynne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maher
authors.forename: Liz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D006113:United Kingdom