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

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  • The NHS needs to make space to look outwards

    12 October 2026 
    6 minute read 

    Bryan Jones makes the case for NHS organisations do more to learn from others. He examines the policies, structures, behaviours and processes that could enable this.

    • Bryan Jones
      Bryan Jones
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
  • What enables improvement at scale?

    16 September 2026 
    4 minute read 

    Penny Pereira shares three key factors and three underpinning enablers that can unlock change at scale.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Discover our new toolkit to support your conversations on system improvement

    • Anindita Ghosh
      Anindita Ghosh
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Flow
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
    • Process improvement
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Organisational development
  • How we’re improving our membership process

    14 May 2026 
    6 minute read 

    After listening and learning how we can improve inclusion and impact in our community, Q is moving to an open membership process. We share why we’re making this change and its benefits.

    • Tarnia Mason
      Tarnia Mason
    • Henry Cann
      Henry Cann
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
  • Discover ways to build connections, share learning and generate engagement in your improvement work.

    • Tarnia Mason
      Tarnia Mason
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Looking at NHS reform differently: From the inside out

    16 April 2026 
    6 minute read 

    Drawing from their research, Q members Catherine Harrison and Bryan Jones explain how redressing the balance between transactional systems and relational care could support NHS reform.

    • Catherine Harrison
      Catherine Harrison
    • Bryan Jones
      Bryan Jones
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • Aarthi Ravishankar and Rosanna Hardwick, from Social Finance, share findings on effective early intervention and prevention for children and young people presenting in mental health crisis.

    • Rosanna Hardwick
      Rosanna Hardwick
    • Aarthi Ravishankar
      Aarthi Ravishankar
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Analytics and data
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Process improvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Services
    • Children and young people
    • Neighbourhood health
  • 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
  • Q member Mani Dhesi explains how radically redesigning patient care pathways for community settings can both improve the patient experience and free up valuable clinical time in secondary care.

    • Mani Dhesi
      Mani Dhesi
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Services
    • Primary care
    • Neighbourhood health
  • Q’s direction and the path ahead

    10 October 2025 
    6 minute read 

    Q’s Managing Director Penny Pereira on what informed our future plans, what lies ahead and how you can be involved.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
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