Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
3 results
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Co-designing the Systems Quality Improvement Practitioner Programme
15 August 2024 4 minute readSid Beech shares his experience of kickstarting the Q Exchange project, Systems QI Practitioner Programme, with a co-design session to agree the scope, audience and draft topic outline.
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Sid Beech
Topics- Digital and data
- Measurement for improvement
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Process improvement
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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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A Lean approach to providing high quality care on demand
21 October 2021 4 minute readRead about using Lean principles to manage patient flow at a GP surgery handling longer term and urgent demand
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Christopher Weatherburn
Topics- Digital and data
- Measurement for improvement
- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Productivity
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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