From ideas to better care
Everything you need to move from a good idea to better care. Start with SAM’s practical guides, then find the right tool for the stage of improvement you’re working on.
Start with SAM's practical guides
Two original SAM publications to help you learn and apply the Five Steps to Better Care. Read them here on the website, or download the unchanged PDFs for offline use.
Five Steps Quick Guide
An accessible introduction to understanding a problem, setting an aim, testing changes and sustaining what works. Ideal for getting started or refreshing your knowledge.
Comprehensive QI Workbook
More detailed methods, worked acute medicine examples, measurement guidance and reusable templates. Use it when you need additional depth for your project.
Read SAM's QI guides online
Read the original documents here, with page navigation, contents and search. Choose the shorter guide or explore the full Workbook; download the PDFs whenever you need them.
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Find the right QI tool
Choose what you need for the task in front of you — a planning template, a worksheet for testing change, or a resource to help share your learning.
SAM QI Project Log
Keep project actions, decisions, tests and measures together.
Open resourceSMART Aim Statement Builder
Turn an improvement idea into a specific, measurable aim.
Open resourcePDSA Cycle Worksheet
Plan, run, study and record a small test of change.
Open resourceSQUIRE 2.0 Presentation Template
Structure a presentation of your QI project and learning.
Open resourceSQUIRE 2.0 Reporting Guide
Understand how to report improvement work clearly.
Open resourceSAM QI Roadmap
Teaching slides introducing SAM’s five-step improvement journey.
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Learn together
Bring quality improvement to life with a practical team exercise, and learn how different perspectives help create better care.
Build a Robot
Experience quality improvement through a facilitated team challenge. Build against the clock, test one change at a time and see what your results reveal through the interactive run chart.
30–45 minutes · Teams of 4–6 · Facilitator-led
Multidisciplinary QI
Better improvement comes from involving the people who deliver and experience care. Learn how different professional perspectives, together with those of patients and carers, can shape meaningful change.
Keep improving. Share what works.
Use what you have learned to make meaningful changes in acute care. Explore more QI guidance, or see how other teams have approached similar challenges through the SAM Improvement Exchange.
Part of SAM’s developing ambition to connect practical learning, shared experience and sustained improvement in acute medicine.