Emma Ball
Assistant Director of Nursing
Health Service Executive Ireland
Ireland
Member's groups
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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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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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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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Systems Convening community of practice
This group will support the cross-boundary learning and catalysing work being done by Systems Conveners – offering a space to share successes and get help with challenges.
A number of Q member Systems Conveners a […] -
Clinical Audit in Quality Improvement
This SIG will look at best practice in national clinical audit, and how to ensure clinical audit is used as an effective part of quality improvement both nationally and locally.
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Communities of Practice
The group aims to bring together people who are interested in setting up Communities of Practice, or have already set them up, to share their experiences and knowledge.
This group is co-convened by Cleo […] -
Human Factors
This group aims to link with members who are interested in developing human factors capability within the NHS. In the East Midlands, there is some work on this and we now have six human factors projects being […]
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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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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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Human-Centred Design in Health and Care
Design thinking is increasingly used in industry to ensure the user is the focus of the final product. There is now a growing movement looking at how design thinking can be used in health and care improvement […]
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Medicine Management
The purpose of this SIG is to address the challenges facing all health and social care providers in managing medicines.
Effective medicine management is fundamentally important for patient care. In England, the […] -
Exploring Adaptive Space – community of practice
This group is for people interesting in understanding and applying Prof Mary Uhl-Bien’s framework of ’Adaptive Spaces’ and ’Complexity Leadership’.
Mary explains the crucial role of ’Adaptive Spaces’ in […]
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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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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 […]