Opinion pieces
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 readSarindi Aryasinghe reflects on how we can do our bit to turn commitments to equity into real, tangible, everyday improvement work.
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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
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Journalism with a stethoscope: why listening matters for facing health’s wicked problems
23 September 2025 5 minute readQ member Guddi Singh on what led her to create a new BBC Radio 4 series asking the questions the health service avoids – and what the answers mean for improvement.
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Guddi Singh
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Health and prevention
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Systems change
- Quality of care
- Health equity
- Person-centred care
- Services
- Children and young people
- Community services
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Creating a hospital passport for patients with dementia
10 May 2024 5 minute readDiscover how a student nurse in a care home developed a hospital passport so that patients with dementia were better able to let hospital carers know how to look after their needs.
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Carol Dale
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Long-term conditions
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Patient and public involvement
- Quality of care
- Health equity
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
- Services
- End of life care
- Older people’s care
- Social care
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Communities of Practice and QI in health and care
23 April 2024 5 minute readAfra Kelsall, Senior Advisor at the Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN), shares her learning about the Communities of Practice model and shared decision making.
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Afra Kelsall
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Improvement capability
- Quality of care
- Health equity
- Services
- Community services
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Addressing racial inequality in health care: Where can we start?
11 March 2021 5 minute readRead about how Q is approaching racial inequality and improvement and actions we can all consider to address this.
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Tarnia Mason
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Health equity
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Supporting your colleagues from minority ethnic communities in the workplace
11 September 2020 5 minute readQ member, Hesham Abdalla, discusses the light shone by COVID-19 on inequalities within health and care, and Hexitime’s new campaign to support health care staff from ethnic minority communities.
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Hesham Abdalla
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Policy and regulation
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Health equity
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