Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland
23 July 2025 7 minute readQ members from across the UK and Ireland share their thoughts on the plan and its implementation, with insights from their experiences.
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Clifford Mitchell -
Anita Rowe
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Dr Orla Healy
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Felicity Hamer
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Emma Snow
22 July 2025 4 minute readIn this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.
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Emma Snow
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Services
- Social care
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Andrea Gibbons
21 July 2025 3 minute readIn this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.
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Andrea Gibbons
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Anna Burhouse
18 July 2025 3 minute readIn this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.
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Anna Burhouse
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Services
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All together on the road to improvement
6 June 2025 6 minute readQ’s Head of Design and Collaboration tells us about a workshop looking at how peer collaboration can be used to deliver the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.
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Anindita Ghosh
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Networking
- Spread and adoption
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Integrated strategies to mobilise change
13 December 2024 9 minute readThe ambition of the 10 Year Health Plan will need to integrate different approaches to change. Q’s Managing Director, Penny Pereira, sets out what is needed to support this.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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How to bring an equitable approach to reducing waiting times
25 September 2024 6 minute readKatie and Spela explore what the Q Lab teams learned about ensuring equity while reducing appointment waiting times and share some top tips for ensuring equitable access to services.
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Katie Clarke-Day
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Long-term conditions
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Patient and public involvement
- Systems change
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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Improving patient communication and care with technology
24 September 2024 9 minute readA Q Exchange project looks at using innovative technology as part of an apporoach to reduce falls and pressure ulcers in elderly patients.
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Jonathan Yazbek
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Health and prevention
- Long-term conditions
- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
- Services
- Mental health
- Older people’s care
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How senior leaders can support patients to wait well
22 July 2024 5 minute readExperts from across health care offer practical actions to design pathways that reduce waiting lists, support patients to wait well and put equity first throughout.
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Ruth Coustick-Deal
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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Bridging gaps: enhancing wound care for vulnerable patients
18 July 2024 3 minute readQ member Krishna Nair explores the significant disparities in wound care among the nation’s most vulnerable populations and improvement initiatives.
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Krishna Nair
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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