Caroline Cochrane
Director of psychological services NHS Borders
NHS Borders
Scotland
Member's groups
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Quality Improvement and the wellbeing of the workforce
People who work in health and social care systems and organisations matter too, they only have so much energy. What good practice tools, resources and ideas can we share to help those working in health and social care know, they are cared about and their wellbeing matters too? -
Measurement for Improvement
Are you interested in how we can make the best use of data to inform decision-making and take appropriate action? Are you frustrated that two point comparisons and RAG reports continue to dominate much of the […]
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Co-production
In co-produced health care, organisations work with people who use services, carers and communities in equal partnership. It’s easy to do it wrong and quite hard to get it right, but it isn’t rocket science, and […]
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Power of Storytelling in Health
This group is convened by Lesley Goodburn.
This a group to explore the use of storytelling in healthcare looking at the use of stories in improvement as well as therapeutic interventions. The group will look […]
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Liberating Structures in healthcare
This is a place to share tips, tricks, challenges, plans, ’strings’ and more around using ’Liberating Structures’ for health and care improvement.
We also meet online on the first Thursday of each month (see […]
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Coaching Improvement
This group’s aim is to support Q members and organisations to embed a coaching model and approach to quality improvement at a local level.
Improvement coaches are a crucial component of the dosing model, […]
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Service Design
Are NHS Services designed or do they evolve over time? -
Quality Management in Healthcare
There is now a growing interest in Quality Management in healthcare. This Special Interest Group will help those interested in learning about or implementing a Quality Management System (QMS).
In Quality […]
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Technology to support QI Teams
Teams across the UK use a variety of hardware and software to support Quality Improvement and Innovation.
Through collaborating we will learn, share and apply how other #QITechTeams use technology, ranging from […]
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Mindfulness for Quality Improvement
Mindfulness is a process of focussing on experiences in the current moment. Over the last decades, many mindfulness based techniques and programmes have been used to improve health, and in fact there is good […]
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Psychology for Improvement
A fundamental principle of improvement science is to understand & influence human behaviour (Dr William Deming). Indeed, an understanding of the psychological factors underpinning human behaviour makes up one […]
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Complexity Approaches to support Quality Improvement
This group will consider the impact of emerging theories around complex systems – such as complex responsive processes, Dialogic OD and systems thinking – on how we approach quality improvement. It will also foc […]
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Psychological Safety in Health and Social Care
A group to help grow cultures where knowledge and innovation flourish because people feel safe to contribute their ideas – resulting in better clinical outcomes and staff wellbeing.
The group is co-convened by […]
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Q Reading Club
This group offers a space where members can continue their own professional development through a virtual book club. The idea is that a particular time period and place is identified for a discussion space about a […]
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Digital
Digital is about opening up new challenges and opportunities for quality improvement; bringing analytics and methods into improvement settings and improvement methodology into digital projects. This group has been […]
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Culture of Continuous Improvement
In the NHS, Quality Improvement methodology is the most common vehicle for embedding systematic continuous improvement and most frequently shows up as a team of experts supporting clinically-focused, smaller-scale […]
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Making use of patient experience
Do we over-measure patient experience? Are we helped by the Friends and Family Test, CQC patient surveys, NHS Choices star ratings, Patient Opinion snapshot comments, local Healthwatch reports, Trust and CCG […]
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Organisational Resilience & Safety-II
We strive to provide high quality, safe care whilst operating in a complex environment, facing considerable uncertainty on a daily basis. The degree of volatility, complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity is […]
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Evidence 4 Quality Improvement
Home of the @Evidence4QI project (Q Exchange-funded). Supporting Quality Improvement (QI) teams to use evidence and knowledge in QI projects, working in partnership with the Library and Knowledge Services community.
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Process Visualisation in the NHS
This SIG will look at identifying and documenting, in flow chart format, process management in the NHS, both clinical and administrative processes are addressed. The structure of the Process Visualization set will […]
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Evaluation
Appropriate good quality evaluation is essential component of quality improvement. This group has been set up to link members who have experience, expertise and an interest in the evaluation of quality […]
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Primary Care
This group is open to anyone working in or interested in primary care. It is convened by Rammya Mathew, who is a London based GP with an interest in quality improvement. This group is a learning space – it’s not […]
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QI in Mental Health
Special Interest Group to support the sharing of ideas and good practice for QI across all Mental Health settings. The group will encourage the sharing of ideas and approaches to the use of QI within MH settings […]
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Q Connectors
A network for members who love connecting people and ideas across boundaries (and who can help push the boundaries of what’s possible for all of us in Q).
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Sketchnote
The Q Community includes many people who are realising that there are other ways to record what you learn at events – a more visual form of taking notes known as Sketchnotes.
Join us as we explore the world o […]
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Technology-enabled remote monitoring
This group is for people interested in technology-enabled remote monitoring.
It has been created as part of the Q Lab UK project, in partnership with NHSX, exploring how to build staff and patient trust and […]