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Opinion pieces

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

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  • Q member Karla Rimaitis considers the shift to neighbourhood health in light of her experiences with improvement and innovation in primary care.

    • Karla Rimaitis
      Karla Rimaitis
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Integration
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Older people’s care
    • Neighbourhood health
    • Voluntary services
  • Q 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.

    • Guddi Singh
      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
  • Bryan Jones, Senior Improvement Fellow at the Health Foundation, and Penny Pereira, Q’s Managing Director, discuss leveraging improvement expertise in implementing neighbourhood health models.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    • Bryan Jones
      Bryan Jones
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Systems change
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Neighbourhood health
  • 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
  • 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
  • Communities of Practice and QI in health and care

    23 April 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Afra Kelsall, Senior Advisor at the Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN), shares her learning about the Communities of Practice model and shared decision making.

    • Afra Kelsall
      Afra Kelsall
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Improvement capability
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
    • Services
    • Community services
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