Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Learning from Excellence: the transformational power of praise
2 February 2022 6 minute readWhat 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?
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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
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Taking a psychologically informed approach to quality improvement
16 December 2021 2 minute readRead about how pscychology is being deployed as a quality improvement tool.
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Rachel Trask -
Benna Waites
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Are systems conveners the leaders the NHS needs now more than ever?
1 September 2021 7 minute readThree 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.
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Tanya Royer
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Innovation
- Networking
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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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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Adaptive spaces for an emerging future: insights for health and care
27 January 2021 5 minute readLearn how health and care organisations are enabling change through adaptive spaces with insights from our Q groups.
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Diane Ketley -
Matthew Mezey -
Gareth Evans
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Spread and adoption
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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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Insights from Highland: NHS Near Me
1 June 2020 8 minute readGain insights from the pace of change in NHS Scotland over the past decade and the move to digital services in light of the pandemic.
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Maimie Thompson
Topics- Digital and data
- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
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COVID-19: insights from Highland
3 April 2020 4 minute readGain insights from the pace of change in NHS Scotland over the past decade and how the pandemic made the seemingly impossible, possible.
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Maimie Thompson
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Patient and public involvement
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