Resources

Evidence shows peer learning and collaboration can enable ideas and culture to shift, and to create change in complex systems. But what does it take to do this well in the real-world?

Find out how Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB, established a system-wide Quality Improvement Network which supported learning, built capability, and created a social movement for improvement.

Q member Gemma Kierczuk shares learning from a Supporting Q Connections funded project which brought together innovation, research and improvement across the Humber and North Yorkshire.

Q member Jenny Morton tells us about a project in Sheffield that is working with service users to improve local mental health services and has been shortlisted for the Seni Lewis award.

Teams from North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston studied the causes of missed appointments in cardiology, discovering four key barriers.

Patients were at risk from delays receiving head and neck cancer diagnoses. This project reduced patients’ time to diagnosis from an average of 62 days to 28 days.

This project aimed to reduce the waiting times for patients living with complex pain management needs to access elective surgery safely and appropriately.

An initiative at UCLH used a systems-thinking approach and co-design with young people and clinicians to tackle high outpatient hospital appointment non-attendance rates among 16-to-24-year-olds.

A new urology services model successfully improved support for patients by providing care much earlier in the pathway in an enhanced primary care setting.

How the Community Hospitals Association, supported by Q, established a UK-wide network to nurture quality improvement in community hospitals.