Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Deepening understanding of children and young people experiencing mental health crisis
5 March 2026 5 minute readAarthi Ravishankar and Rosanna Hardwick, from Social Finance, share findings on effective early intervention and prevention for children and young people presenting in mental health crisis.
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Rosanna Hardwick -
Aarthi Ravishankar
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Process improvement
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Services
- Children and young people
- Neighbourhood health
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Recommendations for the quality strategy: how Quality Management Systems can deliver the NHS’s quality ambitions
16 September 2025 6 minute readDrawing on our work on QMS and a roundtable we convened with NHS England, we offer recommendations for how the quality strategy can best meet the needs of the health sector.
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Spela Godec -
Matt Hill
Topics- Digital and data
- AI and automation
- Analytics and data
- Health sector challenges
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Quality of care
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Six ways the quality of health care is improving across the world
12 October 2023 6 minute readQ delegates share their highlights from this year’s International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) conference.
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Helen Crisp -
Henry Cann
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Human factors: designing systems for safety, quality and efficiency
23 May 2022 4 minute readLoretta Jenkins explains how Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) is applying human factors to improve safety, quality and efficiency in health care settings
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Loretta Jenkins
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
- Timeliness and efficiency
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