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Toolkits, guides, case studies and other quality improvement resources shared by Q members and the Q team.

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  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has empowered frontline staff to improve patient safety with a dashboard that brings safety metrics into one place.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
  • Using virtual QI games to boost learning

    Case study
    1 May 2025 
    5 minute read 

    How the gamification of training can engage staff and boost improvement capacity in health and care.

    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Analytics and data
    • Digital technology
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Innovation
  • Exploring what it means to work with a sense of joy

    Case study
    30 April 2025 
    4 minute read 

    The Joy in Work project aimed to enhance the fulfilment of health care staff through virtual sessions on quality improvement, collaboration, and work-life balance.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
  • Reawakening Q’s coaching for improvement group

    Case study
    29 April 2025 
    4 minute read 

    Using a high-impact engagement programme approach with a focus on member experience, this Q team has reinvigorated Q’s Coaching Improvement group

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Partnering with patients on ways to improve care before treatment

    Case study
    23 April 2025 
    5 minute read 

    The first national forum for perioperative and prehabilitation care is looking at ways to better support patients before, during and following their treatment.

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Health and prevention
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • Learn how the Black Maternity Matters collaborative co-produced a QI approach to reduce inequitable maternity outcomes.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Spread and adoption
    • Quality of care
    • Clinical effectiveness
    • Health equity
    • Patient experience
    • Patient safety
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Maternity and neo-natal
  • Putting the power of data to work for patients

    Case study
    12 March 2025 
    5 minute read 

    A team of researchers and clinicians is helping analysts and decision makers in in the NHS to realise the power of data through statistical process control.

    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Analytics and data
    • Measurement for improvement
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Process improvement
    • Quality of care
  • Accessible venue checklist

    Template
    6 March 2025 
    1 minute read 

    If you’ve got an in-person event coming up, use this list to assess how accessible the venue is.

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Networking
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  • Kidney Essentials: co-design to improve patient information

    Case study
    3 March 2025 
    6 minute read 

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and Cognitant worked with chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients to co-design written and interactive digital information.

    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Acute care
    • Community services
  • Podcast: Leading Improvement in Health and Care

    Podcast
    18 November 2024 
    12 minute read 

    Sharing stories and exploring the challenges of people making changes across systems.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Leadership and management
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