Welcome to the special HSJ supplement on the Productive series.

The Productive programmes demonstrate how much difference can be made for patients and staff when we create a powerful partnership between the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and its NHS customers

The “Productives” have been conceived as a result of feedback from frontline NHS staff about immediate priorities for change and learning from the rest of the world about the greatest opportunities for change.

This series is a flagship programme for the NHS Institute and a powerful symbol of its future course. We embarked on our own change programme in January 2008. This has involved listening to hundreds of our health service customers and reflecting on our direction and priorities. We want to be in the best possible position to support the growing demand for improvement ideas and skills. As we move to the implementation phase of the next stage review, there is a clear sense about what the NHS wants to do to improve health and healthcare but much less clarity about how to achieve the improvements we seek.

Read more by downloading the supplement.