Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Quality improvement and health inequalities
15 January 2024 4 minute readLook at how QI can impact health inequalities and learn about Queen Mary University of London research to explore the issue.
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Lucy Johnson
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Promoting health equity with colleagues in Q
1 November 2023 3 minute readClare Cable explains the value and benefits that the Q community brings to health care improvement.
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Clare Cable
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Amplifying diverse voices: ingredients for successful co-production
5 July 2023 6 minute readSabrina Das, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, reflects on her work co-producing services with local mothers in the Family Voices Big Room.
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Sabrina Das
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Services
- Mental health
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Start somewhere and go everywhere: setting up a Community of Practice for those with neurodiversity
9 November 2022 4 minute readSophia Mody reflects on how setting up a Community of Practice at her trust has cultivated welcoming and empowering social spaces for neurodiverse staff members and patients.
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Sophia Mody
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Services
- Mental health
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A medic’s experience of losing her voice
25 August 2022 5 minute readRead about a medic who shared her birth experience as a maternity patient with the team who provided her care
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Sabrina Das
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Fazeela Chharawala
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Patient safety
- Services
- Maternity and neo-natal
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Harnessing lived experience to address health inequalities
22 April 2022 3 minute readQ member Pete Donnelly shares the impact wheelchair skills have made to his life in 15 years of using a wheelchair.
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Pete Donnelly
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Innovation
- Spread and adoption
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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Addressing racial inequality in health care: Where can we start?
11 March 2021 5 minute readRead about how Q is approaching racial inequality and improvement and actions we can all consider to address this.
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Tarnia Mason
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Health equity
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Supporting your colleagues from minority ethnic communities in the workplace
11 September 2020 5 minute readQ member, Hesham Abdalla, discusses the light shone by COVID-19 on inequalities within health and care, and Hexitime’s new campaign to support health care staff from ethnic minority communities.
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Hesham Abdalla
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Policy and regulation
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Health equity
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