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We have a new name!

For three decades, the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare has brought together people from around the world to share ideas, tackle challenges, and improve health and care.

We’re excited to announce our next chapter.

The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare has become the Healthcare Improvement Forum.

Our new name reflects what you’ve always brought to this community:  energy, momentum, and an unwavering commitment to improvement as an active, ongoing process.

Our name has changed, but everything that matters stays the same.
✅ Same programming: the world-class insights you expect.
✅ Same partnership: proudly presented by BMJ Group and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
✅ Same mission: advancing quality and safety worldwide. (Note: Your accounts, registrations, and submitted work are entirely unaffected).

Here’s to the next 30 years.

Questions? Reach out to events@bmj.com or check our FAQs

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Improvement in practice: four stories from the Forum

For 30 years, the Forum has brought together people working to improve quality and safety in healthcare. These case studies show what that looks like in practice — how ideas and learning shared through the Forum have helped teams tackle real challenges, improve care and take new approaches back to their organisations and communities.

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From Monash Health to Martha’s Rule

A connection made through the Forum helped spread an Australian family-escalation approach nationally and internationally, with clear relevance to Martha’s Rule in the UK.

Building an Aboriginal allied health workforce to enhance culturally responsive care

Improving communication for Indigenous people in hospitals

Northern Territory Health used learning and insights from the Forum to inform work on culturally safer care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.

Co-designing safer emergency care

Attendance at the Forum in Melbourne, 2023 provided a practical framework to help address the inequitable and culturally complex challenges faced by the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia.

Quality Forum

Celebrating 30 years

This special supplement highlights voices and experience from three decades of shared learning that has helped shape safer, higher quality health systems.

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