Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
-
The NHS needs to make space to look outwards
12 October 2026 6 minute readBryan Jones makes the case for NHS organisations do more to learn from others. He examines the policies, structures, behaviours and processes that could enable this.
-
Bryan Jones
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
-
-
Action on quality improvement can’t wait
30 September 2026 6 minute readErnesto Quider, Associate Director for Quality, Research and Innovation at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, shares his analysis and reaction to the NHS Quality Strategy for England.
-
Ernesto Jr N. Quider
Topics- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Policy and regulation
- Quality of care
-
-
What enables improvement at scale?
16 September 2026 4 minute readPenny Pereira shares three key factors and three underpinning enablers that can unlock change at scale.
-
Penny Pereira
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
-
-
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.
-
Guddi Singh
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
-
-
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.
-
Benna Waites
Topics- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
-
-
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.
-
Penny Pereira
-
-
From framework to action: supporting Improvement across systems
1 June 2026 5 minute readDiscover our new toolkit to support your conversations on system improvement
-
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
-
-
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.
-
Tarnia Mason -
Henry Cann
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
-
-
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.
-
Tarnia Mason
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
-
-
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.
-
Catherine Harrison -
Bryan Jones
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
-