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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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  • 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.

    • Anna Burhouse
      Anna Burhouse
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Services
  • Penny Pereira on the action needed to realise the potential of improvement methods at scale.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Process improvement
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • What burnout taught me

    16 June 2025 
    5 minute read 

    Guddi Singh reflects on what burn out taught her about leadership, impact and the cost of doing things differently.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • All together on the road to improvement

    6 June 2025 
    6 minute read 

    Q’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.

    • Anindita Ghosh
      Anindita Ghosh
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Networking
    • Spread and adoption
  • Q member Aicha Bouraoui reflects on how clarity and integrity can keep health care collaborations on track.

    • Aicha Bouraoui
      Aicha Bouraoui
    • Dr Cleo White
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
  • Bryan Jones, Senior Improvement Fellow at the Health Foundation, and Penny Pereira, Q’s Managing Director, discuss leveraging improvement expertise in implementing neighbourhood health models.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    • Bryan Jones
      Bryan Jones
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Systems change
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Neighbourhood health
  • Integrated strategies to mobilise change

    13 December 2024 
    9 minute read 

    The 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.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Explore what we learned about collaboratively bringing in external perspectives to the Q Lab improvement projects, and our suggestions for how to bring these perspectives into your improvement work.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
  • Read about how Q Labs explore complexity and challenges in health care at system level using stakeholder and journey mapping.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Read about the views of leaders in general practice about the role of QI in their work amidst pressures in the sector.

    • Rammya Mathew
      Rammya Mathew
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
    • Services
    • Primary care
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