Opinion pieces

Penny Pereira, Q’s Managing Director, considers the new approach, its potential impact and what it means for members and others working to improve health and care in England and beyond.

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  Penny Pereira

Discover 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

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.

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  Sophia Mody

Loretta 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

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?

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  Gemma Crossingham

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

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  Rachel Trask
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  Benna Waites

Read about a proposal for making suitable and sustainable professional development opportunities more widely available in and health and care.

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  Richard Hixson

Read about the Psychology for Improvememnt (P4I) approach and watch a recording of a session with Kate Hilton.

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  Samuel Thornton

Read about how Q is approaching racial inequality and improvement and actions we can all consider to address this.

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  Tarnia Mason

Q member, Hesham Abdalla, discusses the light shone by COVID-19 on inequalities within health and care, and Hexitime’s new campaign to support health care staff from ethnic minority communities.

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  Hesham Abdalla