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Opinion pieces

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

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  • What if we set up a quality framework with patients and staff that used positive feedback to improve morale and model the social behaviours we want to reinforce in health and care settings?

    • Gemma Crossingham
      Gemma Crossingham
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Measurement for improvement
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Read about how pscychology is being deployed as a quality improvement tool.

    • Rachel Trask
      Rachel Trask
    • Benna Waites
      Benna Waites
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Three Q members – Isabel Ho, Esther Hall and Carl Davies – describe the unique ways in which they connect staff and empower change as system conveners across health and social care.

    • Tanya Royer
      Tanya Royer
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
    • Networking
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Understanding Psychology of Change

    10 June 2021 
    3 minute read 

    Read about the Psychology for Improvememnt (P4I) approach and watch a recording of a session with Kate Hilton.

    • Samuel Thornton
      Samuel Thornton
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Read about how Q is approaching racial inequality and improvement and actions we can all consider to address this.

    • Tarnia Mason
      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
  • Learn how health and care organisations are enabling change through adaptive spaces with insights from our Q groups.

    • Diane Ketley
      Diane Ketley
    • Matthew Mezey
      Matthew Mezey
    • Gareth Evans
      Gareth Evans
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Spread and adoption
  • Q 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.

    • Hesham Abdalla
      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
  • Q 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.

    • Graham Hinchcliffe
      Graham Hinchcliffe
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Insights from Highland: NHS Near Me

    1 June 2020 
    8 minute read 

    Gain insights from the pace of change in NHS Scotland over the past decade and the move to digital services in light of the pandemic.

    • Maimie Thompson
      Maimie Thompson
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
  • COVID-19: insights from Highland

    3 April 2020 
    4 minute read 

    Gain insights from the pace of change in NHS Scotland over the past decade and how the pandemic made the seemingly impossible, possible.

    • Maimie Thompson
      Maimie Thompson
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Patient and public involvement
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