Opinion pieces
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 readJulia 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.
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Julia Wood
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
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Solving NHS demand challenges with a sustainability lens
23 August 2023 7 minute readRachel 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.
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Rachel McLean
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Long-term conditions
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Landmark suite of tools puts co-production at the centre of quality improvement
22 June 2023 5 minute readHelen 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.
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Helen Lee
Topics- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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In conversation with Sir Jim Mackey: improvement and reducing waits in elective care
4 May 2023 6 minute readPenny 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.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Applying Juran’s Trilogy in the NHS
13 March 2023 4 minute readIn 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.
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Thomas Rose
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
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The Meaning of Quality and the Juran Trilogy
26 January 2023 6 minute readFollowing 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.
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Thomas Rose
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Turning Safety-II thinking into action
17 January 2023 6 minute readCritics of Safety-II point to a lack of evidence of its ability to fulfil its promise. Are they right?
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Simon Gill
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
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Designing a Quality Management System for the NHS
2 December 2022 5 minute readDiscover how NHS quality improvement fits into a QMS and how it can be implemented in an NHS trust.
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Thomas Rose
Topics- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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A medic’s experience of losing her voice
25 August 2022 5 minute readRead about a medic who shared her birth experience as a maternity patient with the team who provided her care
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Fazeela Chharawala
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Patient safety
- Services
- Maternity and neo-natal
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The power of reflective practice in staff recovery and wellbeing
8 July 2022 5 minute readMore 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.
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Margaret Codd
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
- Services
- Mental health
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