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

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  • As our latest round of funded Q Exchange teams prepare to start their projects, we reflect on what the 120 proposals received this year tell us about pressures within the system.

    • Jenny Lincoln
  • Experience the transformative power of a Q Visit to Huddlecraft through and gain insights on how these visits inspire and drive innovation in healthcare.

    • Maria Dorthea Skov
      Maria Dorthea Skov
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
  • Sabrina Das, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, reflects on her work co-producing services with local mothers in the Family Voices Big Room.

    • Sabrina Das
      Sabrina Das
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • 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
  • Penny Pereira, Q’s Managing Director, considers the new approach, its potential impact and what it means for members and others working to improve health and care in England and beyond.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Workforce and people
  • Discover insight from Q about the latest NHS Staff Survey and our ongoing work focusing on staff engagement in major change.

    • Henry Cann
      Henry Cann
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Following a panel event on Quality Management Systems, we have been talking about ways of introducing QMS into a health care setting. Mirek Skrypak shares an approach that he has developed.

    • Mirek Skrypak
      Mirek Skrypak
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
  • 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
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