Dan Harley
Quality Improvement and Evaluation manager
NHS 24
Scotland
Biography
I am a Quality Improvement and Evaluation manager at NHS 24, which is a part of NHS Scotland. My professional interests encompass a diverse range of areas, including co-design thinking and practice, systems thinking, social networks, group facilitation, organisational development, quality improvement and evaluation, and all forms of public and partner deliberation. In addition to my work experience, I have also pursued academic studies to consolidate and enhance my knowledge. I hold a Master of Science degree in Systems Thinking in Practice, another Master of Science degree in Drug and Alcohol Studies, and Bachelor's degrees in Health Studies, Psychology, and Social Anthropology. In 2015, I completed the NES Scottish Improvement Leader (ScIL) programme, which provided me with valuable leadership skills and knowledge for improving healthcare services. In September 2024 I will begin a Professional Doctorate in Applied Social Research at the University of Stirling.
Q Exchange ideas
Connect and collaborate: Better care through digital patient feedback integration
The "Connect and Collaborate" project aims to enhance patient care by improving feedback exchange between NHS 24 and NHSGGC, addressing health inequalities, and fostering systemic healthcare improvements through innovative collaboration.
Blog posts
From theory to practice: how systems thinking equips QI practitioners for real-world challenges
Q member Dan Harley discusses how systems thinking can help QI practitioners to tackle ‘wicked problems’, reflecting on his experience studying an MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice at the Open University.
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Areas of interest
- Access
- Analytics and data
- Children and young people
- Collaboration and networking
- Community and voluntary
- Digital technology
- Efficiency and productivity
- Emergency medicine
- Improvement research
- Inequalities
- Integrated care
- Leadership
- Mental health
- Patient and public involvement
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
- Primary care
- Quality improvement
- Social care
- Wider determinants of health
- Workforce
Groups
- Better Conversations with Clean Language
- Tools and resources to help support Networks and Network leaders
- Service Design
- Evidence 4 Quality Improvement
- Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Q Improvement Framework Resources
- Psychology for Improvement
- Technology to support QI Teams
- Sketchnote
- Liberating Structures in healthcare
- Improving Joy in Work
- Closing the gap: developing improvers for a complex world
- Measurement for Improvement
- Making use of patient experience
- Human Factors
- Human-Centred Design in Health and Care
- Digital
- Lean Healthcare
- Bridging Networks
- Process Visualisation in the NHS
- PPI and Diversity
- QI in Mental Health
- Evaluation
- Communities of Practice
- Complexity Approaches to support Quality Improvement