Andrew Ware
Senior Improvement Manager
Improvement Cymru
Wales
Biography
A Q Connector for Wales and a Senior Improvement Manager at Improvement Cymru. Trained and worked as a diagnostic radiographer up until the pandemic. Approaching 20 years in NHS Wales with nearly as much time spent in Improvement as full time clinical role.
Currently studying for an MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice. Having completed two modules in making change with systems thinking and making strategy with Systems Thinking, went on to study the principles of social and psychological inquiry.
Interested in decision making, behavioural sciences, MDT / transdisciplinary working and networking.
Q Exchange ideas
Blog posts
Worldviews, logic and wicked problems: my changing approach to improvement
In his second blog on worldviews and improvement, Q connector Andrew Ware considers how changing the logic behind improvement projects can support better outcomes.
Worldviews in improvement: How can we borrow from research to take a systemic approach?
Q connector Andrew Ware explores the idea of 'worldviews' and how different worldviews can interact, either constraining health and social care improvement efforts or allowing them to flourish.
Working with data in a crisis: moving beyond limitations
In the final blog of the series, Andy Ware rounds off his advice on managing data during a crisis with CSWME, a framework for understanding how to approach your data once you know its limitations.
Working with data in a Crisis: Learning how to FUPS
In the third of four blogs, Q member, Andy Ware shares his experience of getting to grips with data during the pandemic and the importance of 'FUPS'ing your data before incorporating it into decision-making.
Working with Data in a Crisis: identifying your domain
In the second of four blogs, Q member, Andy Ware shares his experience of getting to grips with data during the pandemic and how the Cynefin framework can be a useful tool when managing data in a crisis.
Working with data in a Crisis: Considering the situation
In the first of four blogs, Q member, Andy Ware shares his experience of getting to grips with data during the pandemic and how a few simple rules could make the difference for managing data in a crisis.
I am not an expert, butt…
Andy Ware describes the way of working which has emerged in the last 3 years; the Improvement Practitioner or Practice Facilitator model.
Repeat prescribing through co-design – second Q Exchange project update
The primary care improvement team at 1000 Lives Wales were delighted to receive Q Exchange funding last year for a project focusing on improving repeat prescribing systems and have delivered two workshops of the ‘Opportunity Costing’ method.
Repeat prescribing through co-design – a Q Exchange project update
Repeat prescribing through co-design is one of the projects to win Q Exchange funding. In this update, we describe what we have been doing behind the scenes and what is going on right now.
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Areas of interest
- Analytics and data
- Children and young people
- Digital technology
- Emergency medicine
- End of life care
- Integrated care
- Mental health
- Patient and public involvement
- Patient experience
- Patient safety
- Primary care
- Public health
- Quality improvement
- Wider determinants of health
Groups
- Q Groups (SIGs) Leads & Conveners
- Q in Cymru / Wales
- Creating collective responsibility to reduce delays in elective pathways
- Philosophy and ethics for health care improvement
- Decarbonisation within NHS Wales
- Network mapping
- Psychology for Improvement
- Allied Health Professions in Quality Improvement
- Q Exchange 2018 Award Holders
- Sustainable Healthcare
- Q Visits
- Liberating Structures in healthcare
- Applying behavioural insights in healthcare
- Closing the gap: developing improvers for a complex world
- Measurement for Improvement
- Making use of patient experience
- Dialogic Organisation Development
- Q Special Interest Groups/Communities of Practice
- Medicine Management
- Urgent and Emergency Care
- Improvement Research Network
- Q Lab – peer support group
- Primary Care
- Evaluation
- Communities of Practice
- Q Connectors
- Complexity Approaches to support Quality Improvement