Opinion pieces

Q member Pete Donnelly shares the impact wheelchair skills have made to his life in 15 years of using a wheelchair.

• Pete Donnelly

What if we set up a quality framework with patients and staff that used positive feedback to improve morale and model the social behaviours we want to reinforce in health and care settings?

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  Gemma Crossingham

Read about how pscychology is being deployed as a quality improvement tool.

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  Rachel Trask
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  Benna Waites

Read about using Lean principles to manage patient flow at a GP surgery handling longer term and urgent demand

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  Christopher Weatherburn

Read about a proposal for making suitable and sustainable professional development opportunities more widely available in and health and care.

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  Richard Hixson

Three Q members – Isabel Ho, Esther Hall and Carl Davies – describe the unique ways in which they connect staff and empower change as system conveners across health and social care.

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  Tanya Royer

Read about fresh approaches to recovery in the post-COVID period.

Read about the Psychology for Improvememnt (P4I) approach and watch a recording of a session with Kate Hilton.

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  Samuel Thornton

Read how five actions and a six-word mantra helped Carol Dale to improve her team’s wellbeing during COVID-19

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  Carol Dale

Read about how Q is approaching racial inequality and improvement and actions we can all consider to address this.

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  Tarnia Mason