Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Nurturing improvement networks: practical lessons from our SQC funding programme
7 May 2026 7 minute readDiscover ways to build connections, share learning and generate engagement in your improvement work.
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Tarnia Mason
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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All together on the road to improvement
6 June 2025 6 minute readQ’s Head of Design and Collaboration tells us about a workshop looking at how peer collaboration can be used to deliver the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.
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Anindita Ghosh
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Networking
- Spread and adoption
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Creating a QI movement: how QI Week began
10 September 2024 3 minute readQ member Anita DeHavilland tells the story of creating QI Week running from 9 to 13 September 2024, and encourages you to get involved.
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Anita DeHavilland
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Learning from our Community Hospitals Special Interest Group
18 June 2024 5 minute readPresident of the Community Hospitals Association, Helen Tucker reflects on her improvement work with patients and communities on local health and social care services.
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Helen Tucker
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Services
- Community services
- Voluntary services
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Open Space: conversations to progress your work in challenging times
13 September 2022 3 minute readQ’s in-person events will create space for you to connect with collaborators and lead the change you want to see.
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Jen Morgan
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Networking
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Organisational development
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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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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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Gareth Evans
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Spread and adoption
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