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 readDiscover insight from Q about the latest NHS Staff Survey and our ongoing work focusing on staff engagement in major change.
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Henry Cann
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Human factors: designing systems for safety, quality and efficiency
23 May 2022 4 minute readLoretta Jenkins explains how Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) is applying human factors to improve safety, quality and efficiency in health care settings
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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
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Learning from Excellence: the transformational power of praise
2 February 2022 6 minute readWhat 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
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
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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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