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

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  • Q Exchange project lead Rachael Middle shares how Isle of Wight NHS Trust is improving digital inclusion for people accessing their mental health services.

    • Rachael Middle
      Rachael Middle
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • 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
  • Quality improvement and health inequalities

    15 January 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Look at how QI can impact health inequalities and learn about Queen Mary University of London research to explore the issue.

    • Lucy Johnson
      Lucy Johnson
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Improving productivity: resources from Q

    9 January 2024 
    7 minute read 

    Resources from Q to give you inspiration and help bring people with you when tackling health and care improvement in a system under pressure.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Promoting health equity with colleagues in Q

    1 November 2023 
    3 minute read 

    Clare Cable explains the value and benefits that the Q community brings to health care improvement.

    • Clare Cable
      Clare Cable
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • 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
  • Solving NHS demand challenges with a sustainability lens

    23 August 2023 
    7 minute read 

    Rachel McLean reflects on sustainability in quality improvement (SusQI) projects that show potential for improving patient care while saving staff time, saving money and reducing environmental impact.

    • Rachel McLean
      Rachel McLean
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Long-term conditions
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Sabrina Das, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, reflects on her work co-producing services with local mothers in the Family Voices Big Room.

    • Sabrina Das
      Sabrina Das
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • 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.

    • Sophia Mody
      Sophia Mody
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • Learning from Q Lab: reflections on flow theory

    10 October 2022 
    4 minute read 

    Highlights from Q’s first Lab on how patients and staff can collaborate on ways to reduce waits for elective care.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    • Sarah Rae
      Sarah Rae
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Collaboration
    • Flow
    • Patient and public involvement
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