Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Creating a hospital passport for patients with dementia
10 May 2024 5 minute readDiscover 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.
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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
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Communities of Practice and QI in health and care
23 April 2024 5 minute readAfra Kelsall, Senior Advisor at the Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN), shares her learning about the Communities of Practice model and shared decision making.
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Afra Kelsall
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Improvement capability
- Quality of care
- Health equity
- Services
- Community services
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Co-designing streamlined care for children’s services
21 February 2024 8 minute readQ 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.
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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
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Learning from Q Lab: Slowing down to move forward?
10 January 2024 4 minute readLearn how organisations collaborating to reduce delays are approaching improvement in these reflections from our Q Lab workshop.
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Sarah Rae
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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Clean Language in health care cuts to the chase
4 December 2023 4 minute readHow using Clean Language questions in health and care reveals what really matters.
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Judy Rees
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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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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Six ways the quality of health care is improving across the world
12 October 2023 6 minute readQ delegates share their highlights from this year’s International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) conference.
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Henry Cann
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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From theory to practice: how systems thinking equips QI practitioners for real-world challenges
2 October 2023 4 minute readQ member Dan Harley discusses how systems thinking can help QI practitioners to tackle ‘wicked problems’.
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Dan Harley
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Launch of UK’s first online patient experience library
26 September 2023 5 minute readMiles 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.
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Miles Sibley
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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The value of death: how can we reimagine death and dying?
5 September 2023 4 minute readIn an age of medical advancements, Bethan Phillips reflects on how we can take a radical new approach to death and bereavement.
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Katy Saunders
Topics- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Services
- Acute care
- End of life care
- Older people’s care
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