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

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  • President of the Community Hospitals Association, Helen Tucker reflects on her improvement work with patients and communities on local health and social care services.

    • Helen Tucker
      Helen Tucker
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Voluntary services
  • Professional Advocacy is a network of nursing and midwifery professionals helping this vital workforce to recover and grow.

    • Martin Hogan
      Martin Hogan
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • How healing and trust play a part in health improvement

    30 April 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Q member Sabrina Das reflects on an Experience Day and how trust built in a local community that had suffered historical trauma contributed to its success.

    • Sabrina Das
      Sabrina Das
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Health and prevention
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Maternity and neo-natal
    • Voluntary services
  • More than ever as health care practitioners, we need ways of capturing and making sense of experiences we’ve been through so we can use them to improve not only patient care, but our own wellbeing.

    • Margaret Codd
      Margaret Codd
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • 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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