Haydn Childs (she/her)
QI Manager for a Quality Improvement Team with a focus on training, culture and communications and engagement.
Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust
England - South West
Member's groups
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Improving Joy in Work
The purpose of this 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 we can increase […]
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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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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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Impact and 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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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 was initiated by Cleo […]
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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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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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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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Tools and resources to help support Networks and Network leaders
Having access to a suite of resources and a dedicated space for learning and sharing with peers is immensely beneficial for Network Leaders. In the fast-paced and ever-evolving field of healthcare, staying informed and connected is crucial. A collaborative environment fosters not only professional growth but also innovation and creativity, which are key to improving healthcare systems and outcomes. By pooling our collective knowledge and experiences, we can co-create solutions that are both dynamic and value-driven. -
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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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? -
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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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 St […]
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QI Communications
A group for anyone with an interest in QI Communications. This is an online space for us to chat, upload documents, and share ideas, links and templates.
This group is convened by Andrea Gibbons.
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Network mapping
A group space to support anyone who is interested in mapping their networks. Q is currently piloting a new approach to mapping its network of improvers, using the tools SumApp and Kumu. We will also share our […]
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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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Improvement Culture Club
In the current climate, it is very challenging for staff to be able to carry out improvement when they are faced with many pressures and demands. We need to create the right environment and support for staff to be […]
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Adoption and Spread Collective
There are 3 things we can be certain of in healthcare and we would like to close the gap on:
1. We know there is on average, a 17 year gap between new evidence of best practice and the adoption of this in […]
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Network Weaving
A group space for people interested in learning about Network Weaving, and developing their skills. -
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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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 be […]
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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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Videos & Podcasts
This group aims to explore Health & Care-focused content creation – especially in the form of videos and podcasts for social media. It is not aimed at established creators: from beginners and long-term creators, […]
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South West Q
A group for Q members in the South West to communicate, share and learn with and from each other.
This group is supported by Jen Ellis. -
Closing the gap: developing improvers for a complex world
This group will offer a space to explore and share together practical techniques for supporting our inner journeys towards transformed individual capacities for real world impact (in health, communities, […]