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

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  • Discover how a student nurse in a care home developed a hospital passport so that patients with dementia were better able to let hospital carers know how to look after their needs.

    • Carol Dale
      Carol Dale
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • End of life care
    • Older people’s care
    • Social care
  • Communities of Practice and QI in health and care

    23 April 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Afra Kelsall, Senior Advisor at the Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN), shares her learning about the Communities of Practice model and shared decision making.

    • Afra Kelsall
      Afra Kelsall
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Improvement capability
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
    • Services
    • Community services
  • Co-designing streamlined care for children’s services

    21 February 2024 
    8 minute read 

    Q Exchange project lead Clare Smith shares successes and challenges in creating a single point of access to children’s services in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

    • Clare Smith
      Clare Smith
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Complexity
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Process improvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Services
    • Children and young people
  • Learning from Q Lab: Slowing down to move forward?

    10 January 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Learn how organisations collaborating to reduce delays are approaching improvement in these reflections from our Q Lab workshop.

    • Sarah Rae
      Sarah Rae
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • Clean Language in health care cuts to the chase

    4 December 2023 
    4 minute read 

    How using Clean Language questions in health and care reveals what really matters.

    • Judy Rees
      Judy Rees
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Why join Q? With Dr Amar Shah

    25 October 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Dr Amar Shah explains the role Q is playing in today’s health and care sector and why people should join.

    • Amar Shah
      Amar Shah
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Clinical effectiveness
  • Q delegates share their highlights from this year’s International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) conference.

    • Helen Crisp
      Helen Crisp
    • Henry Cann
      Henry Cann
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Analytics and data
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • 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
  • Launch of UK’s first online patient experience library

    26 September 2023 
    5 minute read 

    Miles Sibley tells us about the first-ever digital library of patient experience evidence and its potential to become a powerful new force in tackling health inequality.

    • Miles Sibley
      Miles Sibley
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • The value of death: how can we reimagine death and dying?

    5 September 2023 
    4 minute read 

    In an age of medical advancements, Bethan Phillips reflects on how we can take a radical new approach to death and bereavement.

    • Bethan Phillips
      Bethan Phillips
    • Katy Saunders
      Katy Saunders
    Topics
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Services
    • Acute care
    • End of life care
    • Older people’s care
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