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Opinion pieces

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

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  • Q’s direction and the path ahead

    10 October 2025 
    6 minute read 

    Q’s Managing Director Penny Pereira on what informed our future plans, what lies ahead and how you can be involved.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
  • With fieldwork for the 2025 NHS staff survey set to begin, we reflect on the results of the 2024 survey and what we can learn about staff engagement – and its consequences for improvement.

    • Bryan Jones
      Bryan Jones
    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    • Nicola Burgess
      Nicola Burgess
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Q member Guddi Singh on what led her to create a new BBC Radio 4 series asking the questions the health service avoids – and what the answers mean for improvement.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Health and prevention
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Children and young people
    • Community services
  • The key themes that emerged from Q members’ reflections on the 10-year plan.

    • Q Team
    • Andrea Gibbons
      Andrea Gibbons
    • Emma Snow
    • Clifford Mitchell
      Clifford Mitchell
    • Anita Rowe
    • Domenica Gilroy
      Domenica Gilroy
    • Levette Lamb
      Levette Lamb
    • Miles Sibley
      Miles Sibley
    • Chris Pavlakis
    • Felicity Hamer
    • Anna Burhouse
      Anna Burhouse
    • Dr Orla Healy
    • Rammya Mathew
      Rammya Mathew
    • David Seamark
      David Seamark
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • In 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.

    • Rammya Mathew
      Rammya Mathew
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • AI and automation
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Services
    • Neighbourhood health
  • In 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.

    • David Seamark
      David Seamark
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Health and prevention
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • In 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.

    • Chris Pavlakis
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Q members from across the UK and Ireland share their thoughts on the plan and its implementation, with insights from their experiences.

    • Clifford Mitchell
      Clifford Mitchell
    • Anita Rowe
    • Domenica Gilroy
      Domenica Gilroy
    • Levette Lamb
      Levette Lamb
    • Dr Orla Healy
    • Felicity Hamer
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • In 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.

    • Emma Snow
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Services
    • Social care
  • In 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.

    • Andrea Gibbons
      Andrea Gibbons
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
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