Libby Keck
Head of Design and Collaboration, Q
Q
Member's groups
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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.
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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:
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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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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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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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Q in Cymru / Wales
Welcome to the Q in Wales forum!
Members from across Wales, and can come here to share ideas, events or put a request in for advice from other members.
Members can expect to get updates on local activity, […]
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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 […]
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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' -
Video consultations: how to set them up well, fast?
In response to Covid-19, the health system plans to rapidly expand the use of video consultations.
The aim of this group is to share practical learning, tips and challenges when introducing this complex service […]
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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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Creating collective responsibility to reduce delays in elective pathways
This group has been created as part of the latest Q Lab project on creating collective responsibility to reduce delays in elective pathways.
Those involved in the project are invited to join, as well as other Q […]
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Network Weaving
A group space for people interested in learning about Network Weaving, and developing their skills. -
PPI and Diversity
Serious clinical and service failings in the UK and internationally have increased the calls for patients and the public to be engaged in healthcare to improve patient safety. These calls are now reflected in key […]
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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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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 […]
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Mental health and persistent pain
This group is for people interested in mental health and persistent pain.
It was created as part of the Q Lab’s project, in partnership with Mind, focusing on the experiences of people living with both mental h […]
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Q Lab – peer support group
This is a group for people interested in peer support in health and care. It was started as part of the Q Lab pilot challenge in 2017.
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Q team
A Buddypress Group space for the Q team.