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Evelyn Prodger

Clinical Services Director

St Michaels Hospice (Hastings and Rother)

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Member's groups

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Service Design

    Are NHS Services designed or do they evolve over time?
  • Community Hospitals SIG: sharing good practice

    The Community Hospitals: sharing good practice Special Interest Group (SIG) has a focus on sharing good practice and networking.  The SIG brings together members who want to explore their experiences, look at […]

  • Improving Joy in Work

    The purpose of this Special Interest Group is to provide a learning forum to bring together those interested in Joy in Work.

    Experts, complete novices, and everyone in between, is welcome to join this group so […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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?
  • Sustainable Healthcare

    Sustainability is a domain of quality in healthcare. Sustainable value considers patient and population outcomes against environmental, social and economic costs (the ”triple bottom line”). Sustainable value can […]

  • Q Groups (SIGs) Leads & Conveners

    A closed group for active leads & conveners of Q special interest groups (SIGs) to share experiences, challenges and best practices, request help/support, explore cross-SIG collaboration, and more.

    The aim is […]

  • Q Special Interest Groups/Communities of Practice

    A space to share experiences, challenges, best practices, requests for help/advice and more – around Q’s Special Interest Groups and Communities of Practice.

  • 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 […]

  • Achieving equity through QI

    This network’s vision is to establish an improvement approach which contributes to reducing health inequalities and increasing wellbeing for all across Scotland.

    Its purpose:
    * Learning and sharing – with o […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Lean Healthcare

    Lean continues to become increasingly popular in health. This group will exchange information on current thinking and discuss ideas on the application and adaption of Lean thinking to the health care sector. Join […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • PSIRF – Patient Safety Incident Response Framework

    This is a space for Q members to connect on the successes, challenges, learning and opportunities around the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

    By joining this SIG, we hope that you can bring your […]

  • Frailty QI

    If you are interested in Frailty as a Long Term condition and like to apply QI methodology to your work then this is the place for you. The purpose of this group is to collaborate, share and learn from each other, […]

  • Third sector

    This group is to bring together Q members from the third sector to share ideas and experience in how we can better work with health and care bodies to enable us to get better outcomes for the people we […]

  • Better Conversations with Clean Language

    This is a special interest group for people learning to use Clean Language for better conversations in healthcare. Clean Language is deceptively simple and very powerful. "It opens a door to a new way of thinking about how people's minds actually work. Clean Language questions help other people to explore their thinking and the metaphors which underpin it." Wendy Sullivan and Judy Rees in 'Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds'
  • Tools and resources to help support Networks and Network leaders

    Would you find it helpful to have a suite of resources which could support your networks develop as well as your role as a Network Leader?
  • Community Healthcare Trusts

    Joanne has set up a group for people working in community health care NHS trusts. Fruitful meetings have been helf to share best practices and challenges. All very welcome to join.

    Group convened by Dr Joanne Medhurst.

  • 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.

  • Learning from Excellence

    Whilst it is important to learn from events where things have not gone well, the majority of healthcare interactions go safely. Despite this, we have focus the much of our learning about safety from adverse […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Applying behavioural insights in healthcare

    The latest insights from behavioural science help us better understand all of the factors that influence people’s behaviour – that’s patients and the public as well as healthcare staff. This helps us create more […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • ”Hospitals without walls”- providing healthcare at Home

    This group is convened by Kirsten Protherough

    Exploring innovations and innovative practice enables healthcare at home.

    This is an important consideration in the older population in whom hospital based care […]

  • Harm Free Care

    The group’s aim is to support the delivery of harm free care and the recording of measurable outcomes by:

    Tracking and monitoring incidents of harm in community patients, mapping current harm free care […]