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

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  • Help us consider who else might benefit from joining Q’s health and care improvement community and learn about the strategic case for improvement.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
  • Promoting health equity with colleagues in Q

    1 November 2023 
    3 minute read 

    Clare Cable explains the value and benefits that the Q community brings to health care improvement.

    • Clare Cable
      Clare Cable
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Andrew Ware takes a global view in this piece about looking outward for system improvement. Part one of a two-part series.

    • Andrew Ware
      Andrew Ware
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Join Q: a direct route to improving health and care

    24 October 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Members share their reasons for being part of an increasingly impactful health and care improvement community.

    • Stacey Lally
      Stacey Lally
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
  • Q member Dan Harley discusses how systems thinking can help QI practitioners to tackle wicked problems’.

    • Dan Harley
      Dan Harley
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Experience the transformative power of a Q Visit to Huddlecraft through and gain insights on how these visits inspire and drive innovation in healthcare.

    • Maria Dorthea Skov
      Maria Dorthea Skov
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
  • Sophia Mody reflects on how setting up a Community of Practice at her trust has cultivated welcoming and empowering social spaces for neurodiverse staff members and patients.

    • Sophia Mody
      Sophia Mody
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • Learning from Q Lab: reflections on flow theory

    10 October 2022 
    4 minute read 

    Highlights from Q’s first Lab on how patients and staff can collaborate on ways to reduce waits for elective care.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    • Sarah Rae
      Sarah Rae
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Collaboration
    • Flow
    • Patient and public involvement
  • Q’s in-person events will create space for you to connect with collaborators and lead the change you want to see.

    • Jen Morgan
      Jen Morgan
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Networking
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Organisational development
  • 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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