Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
15 results
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Why join Q? With Dr Amar Shah
25 October 2023 6 minute readDr Amar Shah explains the role Q is playing in today’s health and care sector and why people should join.
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Amar Shah
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Clinical effectiveness
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Taking a psychologically informed approach to quality improvement
16 December 2021 2 minute readRead about how pscychology is being deployed as a quality improvement tool.
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Rachel Trask -
Benna Waites
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Adaptive spaces for an emerging future: insights for health and care
27 January 2021 5 minute readLearn how health and care organisations are enabling change through adaptive spaces with insights from our Q groups.
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Diane Ketley -
Matthew Mezey -
Gareth Evans
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Spread and adoption
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COVID-19: insights from Highland
3 April 2020 4 minute readGain insights from the pace of change in NHS Scotland over the past decade and how the pandemic made the seemingly impossible, possible.
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Maimie Thompson
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Patient and public involvement
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The case for building a Quality Management System
14 January 2020 6 minute readFredrik Johansson joined a Q Visit to Health Improvement Scotland (HIS) to learn about their work in developing a national quality management system and how this could help deliver high-quality care.
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Freddie Johansson
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement capability
- Process improvement
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Quality of care
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