Update from RCP Quality Improvement and Patient Safety: Introduction of a new short format for quality improvement reports.

‘QIP’ (quality improvement project) has become common parlance among doctors in training and many others. This is largely because there are requirements for foundation trainees and specialty trainees to learn quality improvement practice. The General Medical Council’s Generic professional capabilities framework includes ‘ design and implement quality improvement projects’. 1 There are variable opportunities for doctors in training to develop their quality improvement practice in the UK, and variable levels of support. This leads to some excellent learning and development, but also some doctors ‘doing a QIP’ without a full understanding of some of the core elements of improvement practice. There is accessible advice available for …