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

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  • How senior leaders can support patients to wait well

    22 July 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Experts from across health care offer practical actions to design pathways that reduce waiting lists, support patients to wait well and put equity first throughout.

    • Ruth Coustick-Deal
      Ruth Coustick-Deal
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • Q member Krishna Nair explores the significant disparities in wound care among the nation’s most vulnerable populations and improvement initiatives.

    • Krishna Nair
      Krishna Nair
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Top tips for engaging stakeholders in reducing waits

    16 July 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Five lessons teams participating in Q Lab learned about engaging stakeholders in their work to reduce waits.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Flow
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Process improvement
    • Spread and adoption
  • Q member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.

    • Joanna Kitchen
      Joanna Kitchen
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • From furniture logistics to person-centred care

    4 July 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Q member Lesley Goodburn shares how storytelling empowers co-produced, continuous improvement in person-centred care.

    • Lesley Goodburn
      Lesley Goodburn
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Improvement culture
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • End of life care
  • Lessons in hiking: the ups and downs of making change

    19 June 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Q member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • President of the Community Hospitals Association, Helen Tucker reflects on her improvement work with patients and communities on local health and social care services.

    • Helen Tucker
      Helen Tucker
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Voluntary services
  • Q Managing Director Penny Pereira explores what improvement approaches and expertise will be needed for the health and care sector under the new government.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Professional Advocacy is a network of nursing and midwifery professionals helping this vital workforce to recover and grow.

    • Martin Hogan
      Martin Hogan
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Evaluating QI capacity building

    28 May 2024 
    2 minute read 

    Read an evaluation based on the Kirkpatrick model about QI capacity building using workforce collaboration and leadership and management.

    • Iain Smith
      Iain Smith
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
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