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Opinion pieces

Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.

14 results
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  • What do the latest NHS Staff Survey results, and Q’s new insight, tell us about staff engagement?

    27 March 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Discover insight from Q about the latest NHS Staff Survey and our ongoing work focusing on staff engagement in major change.

    • Henry Cann
      Henry Cann
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people

  • Human factors: designing systems for safety, quality and efficiency

    23 May 2022 
    4 minute read 

    Loretta Jenkins explains how Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) is applying human factors to improve safety, quality and efficiency in health care settings

    • Loretta Jenkins
      Loretta Jenkins
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Analytics and data
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
    • Timeliness and efficiency

  • Learning from Excellence: the transformational power of praise

    2 February 2022 
    6 minute read 

    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?

    • Gemma Crossingham
      Gemma Crossingham
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Measurement for improvement
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience

  • Taking a psychologically informed approach to quality improvement

    16 December 2021 
    2 minute read 

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

    • Rachel Trask
      Rachel Trask
    • Benna Waites
      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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