Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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The power of improvement: highlights from this year’s International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare
9 May 2024 8 minute readThe Q team share the improvement themes from this year’s Forum, including looking at failure, rule-breaking and adding rigour to QI.
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Spela Godec
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Innovation
- Spread and adoption
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
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How healing and trust play a part in health improvement
30 April 2024 4 minute readQ member Sabrina Das reflects on an Experience Day and how trust built in a local community that had suffered historical trauma contributed to its success.
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Sabrina Das
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Health and prevention
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Patient and public involvement
- Services
- Community services
- Maternity and neo-natal
- Voluntary services
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How our Q Exchange 5 projects are approaching the issue of delays
25 April 2024 6 minute readMid-way into their projects, we’re finding common themes in approaches to improving equity while tackling delays across a huge range of patients and conditions.
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The Team
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
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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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Three keys to advanced QI training success
4 April 2024 4 minute readQ member Caitlin Bateman reflects on the learning from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston’s QI Gold programme.
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Caitlin Bateman
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Keeping scepticism alive in health care improvement
28 March 2024 6 minute readExplore the role that philosophy can play in upholding an active culture of scepticism in health care improvement.
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Polly Mitchell
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Policy and regulation
- Workforce and people
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Digital adopters in health and care: what you need to know
4 March 2024 4 minute readQ member Dominic Cushnan discusses a service that supports health and care services to plan and implement digital improvement projects.
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Dominic Cushnan
Topics- Digital and data
- AI and automation
- Digital technology
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Policy and regulation
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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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Bringing a sense of shared purpose to improvement at a national scale
20 February 2024 10 minute readQ managing director Penny Pereira in conversation with Dr Amar Shah on his new role as National Clinical Director for Improvement.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Social innovation labs: strengthening health and care improvement
30 January 2024 5 minute readThemes and insights from our recent evidence review of social innovation labs and their impact within complex systems.
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Libby Keck
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
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