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Resources

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

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  • Creating the Conditions for Safe Prescribing

    Framework
    24 September 2026 
    45 minute read 

    A framework for expanding independent prescribing in community pharmacy. Developed in partnership with the National Pharmacy Association, Thiscovery and Q.

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Process improvement
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Primary care
    • Neighbourhood health

  • Leading system level change in health and care: Learning from the Northern Triangle

    Project report
    16 June 2026 
    2 minute read 

    Learn from the lived experience of system leaders and consider what it takes to deliver meaningful change at scale and across boundaries.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership

  • Maternity, perinatal and neonatal quality improvement resources

    Toolkit
    27 November 2025 
    3 minute read 

    A collection of resources, articles and groups on QI through the lens of maternity, perinatal and neonatal services.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Services
    • Maternity and neo-natal

  • Pathway to Equity: working with young people to reduce hospital appointment non-attendance

    Case study
    25 September 2025 
    6 minute read 

    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.

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Health and prevention
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Collaboration
    • Spread and adoption
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Children and young people

  • Transforming urology pathways to improve care and reduce delays

    Case study
    18 September 2025 
    6 minute read 

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

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Flow
    • Innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Primary care

  • AI and quality improvement resources

    Toolkit
    22 August 2025 
    4 minute read 

    A collection of resources, articles and groups on AI and quality improvement.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • 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

  • Black Maternity Matters delivers safer maternity care for Black mothers

    Case study
    7 April 2025 
    7 minute read 

    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

  • Developing system-wide improvement approaches

    Framework
    29 August 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Five simple principles for working across local systems to develop shared improvement approaches for health and care.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Workforce and people
    Downloads

  • Improvement Collaborative Handbook

    Toolkit
    16 October 2023 
    2 minute read 

    Tools to successfully lead, plan and implement an improvement collaborative to improve the safety and quality of health care.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Process improvement
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    Downloads
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