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

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  • Using QI to improve joy in work

    31 August 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Julia Wood reflects on the Joy in Work Special Interest Group which looks at how to use QI tools to bring more enjoyment to the work day.

    • Julia Wood
      Julia Wood
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
  • 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
  • Helen Lee at NHS England’s Experience of Care co-production programme tells us about some work her team has been doing to put co-production at the centre of quality improvement.

    • Helen Lee
      Helen Lee
    Topics
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • Penny Pereira talks to Jim Mackey, NHS England’s National Director of Elective Recovery, about NHS successes and challenges in treatment delays – and how the improvement community can contribute.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Applying Juran’s Trilogy in the NHS

    13 March 2023 
    4 minute read 

    In his third blog in a series on designing a Quality Management System (QMS) for the NHS, Dr Tom Rose discusses how Juran’s Trilogy can be applied in a health care setting.

    • Thomas Rose
      Thomas Rose
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
  • The Meaning of Quality and the Juran Trilogy

    26 January 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Following on from our webinar and blog on Designing a Quality Management System for the NHS, Dr Tom Rose takes a closer look at the Juran Trilogy, its definition of quality and how it can be applied.

    • Thomas Rose
      Thomas Rose
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Turning Safety-II thinking into action

    17 January 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Critics of Safety-II point to a lack of evidence of its ability to fulfil its promise. Are they right?

    • Simon Gill
      Simon Gill
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
  • Designing a Quality Management System for the NHS

    2 December 2022 
    5 minute read 

    Discover how NHS quality improvement fits into a QMS and how it can be implemented in an NHS trust.

    • Thomas Rose
      Thomas Rose
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • A medic’s experience of losing her voice

    25 August 2022 
    5 minute read 

    Read about a medic who shared her birth experience as a maternity patient with the team who provided her care

    • Sabrina Das
      Sabrina Das
    • Fazeela Chharawala
      Fazeela Chharawala
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Patient safety
    • Services
    • Maternity and neo-natal
  • More than ever as health care practitioners, we need ways of capturing and making sense of experiences we’ve been through so we can use them to improve not only patient care, but our own wellbeing.

    • Margaret Codd
      Margaret Codd
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Mental health
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