The work of the Alliance is focussed on four interconnected strategic pillars:
1. Defining and maintaining what good care looks like
The Alliance provides leadership on defining, reviewing and promoting clear, patient-centred standards for high-quality IBD care. This includes working with professional and stakeholder organisations to support shared understanding of quality measures and expectations.
IBD Standards are clearly understood, consistently applied and used as a trusted foundation for improving care and patient experience.
2. Benchmarking and learning from progress
The Alliance delivers consistent benchmarking of services against agreed standards, drawing on service-level and patient-reported data. This learning is used to highlight variation, share insight and inform local and national priorities for improvement.
Benchmarking data is trusted, accessible and used to support reflection, learning and informed decision making at service level.
3. Enabling quality improvement through practical support
The Alliance acts as a quality improvement hub, developing, curating and sharing accessible service improvement resources. These resources are designed to support IBD services to translate Standards and Benchmarking insight into practical change.
IBD services can access relevant, practical resources that support them to plan, deliver and sustain meaningful improvement in care.
4. Connecting people, best practice and experience
The Alliance facilitates the sharing of good practice and learning across the UK, supporting communities of practice and networks that enable collaboration between services, professionals and patient representatives. Through this, the Alliance helps embed a culture of continuous improvement and shared learning across IBD services.
People across services are connected through active communities and networks, enabling sharing of experience, practical solutions and collective progress.