Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Keeping scepticism alive in health care improvement
28 March 2024 6 minute readExplore the role that philosophy can play in upholding an active culture of scepticism in health care improvement.
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Polly Mitchell
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Policy and regulation
- Workforce and people
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Digital adopters in health and care: what you need to know
4 March 2024 4 minute readQ member Dominic Cushnan discusses a service that supports health and care services to plan and implement digital improvement projects.
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Dominic Cushnan
Topics- Digital and data
- AI and automation
- Digital technology
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Policy and regulation
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Bringing a sense of shared purpose to improvement at a national scale
20 February 2024 10 minute readQ managing director Penny Pereira in conversation with Dr Amar Shah on his new role as National Clinical Director for Improvement.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Quality improvement and health inequalities
15 January 2024 4 minute readLook at how QI can impact health inequalities and learn about Queen Mary University of London research to explore the issue.
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Lucy Johnson
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Improving productivity: resources from Q
9 January 2024 7 minute readResources from Q to give you inspiration and help bring people with you when tackling health and care improvement in a system under pressure.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Productivity
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Worldviews, logic and wicked problems: my changing approach to improvement
1 December 2023 4 minute readIn his second blog in this series, Q connector Andrew Ware considers how changing the logic behind improvement projects can help to deal with uncertainty. Part two of a two-part series.
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Andrew Ware
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Innovation
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Organisational development
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Transforming training for carers of children with complex needs
21 November 2023 7 minute readA paediatric nurse explains how she developed an online training package for carers and parents of children with complex needs.
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Una Hughes
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Services
- Children and young people
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Promoting health equity with colleagues in Q
1 November 2023 3 minute readClare Cable explains the value and benefits that the Q community brings to health care improvement.
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Clare Cable
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Worldviews: How can we borrow from research to take a systemic approach?
27 October 2023 3 minute readAndrew Ware takes a global view in this piece about looking outward for system improvement. Part one of a two-part series.
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Andrew Ware
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Why join Q? With Dr Amar Shah
25 October 2023 6 minute readDr Amar Shah explains the role Q is playing in today’s health and care sector and why people should join.
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Amar Shah
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Clinical effectiveness
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