Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Understanding Psychology of Change
10 June 2021 3 minute readRead about the Psychology for Improvememnt (P4I) approach and watch a recording of a session with Kate Hilton.
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Samuel Thornton
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Addressing racial inequality in health care: Where can we start?
11 March 2021 5 minute readRead about how Q is approaching racial inequality and improvement and actions we can all consider to address this.
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Tarnia Mason
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Health equity
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Supporting your colleagues from minority ethnic communities in the workplace
11 September 2020 5 minute readQ member, Hesham Abdalla, discusses the light shone by COVID-19 on inequalities within health and care, and Hexitime’s new campaign to support health care staff from ethnic minority communities.
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Hesham Abdalla
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Policy and regulation
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Health equity
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Effective CQC action planning: Seven steps to success
4 June 2020 6 minute readQ member Graham Hinchcliffe shares seven steps for CQC action planning in health and care, drawing on his time successfully managing this process in multiple NHS trusts.
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Graham Hinchcliffe
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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The case for building a Quality Management System
14 January 2020 6 minute readFredrik Johansson joined a Q Visit to Health Improvement Scotland (HIS) to learn about their work in developing a national quality management system and how this could help deliver high-quality care.
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Freddie Johansson
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement capability
- Process improvement
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Quality of care
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