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

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  • What happens when racism is named in quality improvement?

    25 February 2026 
    6 minute read 

    Sarindi Aryasinghe reflects on how we can do our bit to turn commitments to equity into real, tangible, everyday improvement work.

    • Sarindi Aryasinghe
      Sarindi Aryasinghe
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
  • Penny Pereira on the action needed to realise the potential of improvement methods at scale.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Process improvement
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • What burnout taught me

    16 June 2025 
    5 minute read 

    Guddi Singh reflects on what burn out taught her about leadership, impact and the cost of doing things differently.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Read about how Q Labs explore complexity and challenges in health care at system level using stakeholder and journey mapping.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Read about the views of leaders in general practice about the role of QI in their work amidst pressures in the sector.

    • Rammya Mathew
      Rammya Mathew
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
    • Services
    • Primary care
  • Improving patient communication and care with technology

    24 September 2024 
    9 minute read 

    A Q Exchange project looks at using innovative technology as part of an apporoach to reduce falls and pressure ulcers in elderly patients.

    • Jonathan Yazbek
      Jonathan Yazbek
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Health and prevention
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
    • Services
    • Mental health
    • Older people’s care
  • Creating a QI movement: how QI Week began

    10 September 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Q member Anita DeHavilland tells the story of creating QI Week running from 9 to 13 September 2024, and encourages you to get involved.

    • Anita DeHavilland
      Anita DeHavilland
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • 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
  • Evaluating QI capacity building

    28 May 2024 
    2 minute read 

    Read an evaluation based on the Kirkpatrick model about QI capacity building using workforce collaboration and leadership and management.

    • Iain Smith
      Iain Smith
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Three keys to advanced QI training success

    4 April 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Q member Caitlin Bateman reflects on the learning from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston’s QI Gold programme.

    • Caitlin Bateman
      Caitlin Bateman
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
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