Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Beyond mandatory training: why Race and Health Matters should be required listening across the NHS
5 August 2026 8 minute readHosting a new podcast series, Q member Guddi Singh outlines how it is providing a new way of talking about race and inequality in the NHS and why those working in improvement should listen.
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Guddi Singh
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Using improvement to prevent avoidable employee harm
2 July 2026 5 minute readQ member Benna Waites shares how in NHS Wales they have been applying improvement methodologies to reduce harm caused by employee investigation and disciplinary processes.
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Benna Waites
Topics- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Evolving Q to best serve our members and our changing health systems
8 June 2026 6 minute readOur Managing Director, Penny Pereira, reflects on how Q has been adapting over the last few months to ensure we can keep supporting you to drive improvements.
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Penny Pereira
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From framework to action: supporting Improvement across systems
1 June 2026 5 minute readDiscover our new toolkit to support your conversations on system improvement
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Anindita Ghosh
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Flow
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Innovation
- Process improvement
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Organisational development
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How we’re improving our membership process
14 May 2026 6 minute readAfter listening and learning how we can improve inclusion and impact in our community, Q is moving to an open membership process. We share why we’re making this change and its benefits.
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Tarnia Mason -
Henry Cann
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
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Nurturing improvement networks: practical lessons from our SQC funding programme
7 May 2026 7 minute readDiscover ways to build connections, share learning and generate engagement in your improvement work.
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Tarnia Mason
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Looking at NHS reform differently: From the inside out
16 April 2026 6 minute readDrawing from their research, Q members Catherine Harrison and Bryan Jones explain how redressing the balance between transactional systems and relational care could support NHS reform.
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Bryan Jones
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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Deepening understanding of children and young people experiencing mental health crisis
5 March 2026 5 minute readAarthi Ravishankar and Rosanna Hardwick, from Social Finance, share findings on effective early intervention and prevention for children and young people presenting in mental health crisis.
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Aarthi Ravishankar
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Process improvement
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Services
- Children and young people
- Neighbourhood health
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What happens when racism is named in quality improvement?
25 February 2026 6 minute readSarindi Aryasinghe reflects on how we can do our bit to turn commitments to equity into real, tangible, everyday improvement work.
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Sarindi Aryasinghe
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Health equity
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Understanding and increasing Q’s impact
19 February 2026 7 minute readAs Picker publish their independent evaluation of Q, our Managing Director, Penny Pereira, reflects on what we’ve learned.
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Penny Pereira
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