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Blog posts

• Understanding the role of labs in strengthening innovation and improvement

  Libby Keck, Q's Head of Design and Collaboration, walks you through some of the topics in our recent evidence review for Q Lab.

• Inviting you to apply for an exciting new Q Lab UK project

  Find out about the Q Lab UK's new project in partnership with NHSX, and how you can get involved.

• Watch sessions from the Q community event 2020: Collaborating for an equitable, inclusive health system

  How can we collaborate for a more equitable, inclusive health system? Explore the presentations and conversations from the event on this theme.

• How can we collaborate for a more equitable, inclusive health system?

  Libby Keck shares the thinking we’ve been doing in the Q team, and a summary of sessions on this topic at the upcoming Q community annual event.

• A new improvement Lab in Wales

  Yesterday Q announced Q Lab Cymru – an exciting, long-term initiative made possible by Improvement Cymru and the Health Foundation

• Living with both mental health problems and persistent back and neck pain – some early insights

  Sharing early findings from the research survey on mental health problems and persistent back and neck pain

• Q Lab: Where next?

  Next month the Q Lab will be kicking off a new project, focusing on a complex challenge in health and care. Libby Keck reflects on the learning from the pilot project, and how we are improving the Lab and its approach.

• The future for a peer support community

  Share your views on the peer support community working with the Q Lab and how this could continue

• Q Lab update: Improving the routine offering and promotion of peer support

  One of the areas that the Lab has been working on is how we can improve access to peer support. Here is an update on how that work has been progressing.

• Q Lab update: Sparking spin-off projects in peer support

  We think now is the perfect time to work with us and use the Q Lab to make your project happen.

• Q Lab update: from research to action

  The Q Lab is entering its next phase - ‘developing and testing ideas’. Here are our thoughts on what this phase looks like and what we will be working on - tell us what you think.

• Q Lab update: making new connections

  How can the Q Lab take advantage of the number of people who want to work with the lab, and support those people to make new connections?

• Q Lab update: Collaboration is underway

  Now that the pilot Lab is up and running, there will be regular updates about how it’s progressing. In this first update, Libby reflects back on the three weeks since the challenge was announced.

• Q Lab – your votes have been counted

  The Q Improvement Lab will bring people together to explore, develop, test and spread ideas that can improve health and care for people in the UK.

• But what will the first lab topic be?

  The Q community is choosing a topic for the first Q Improvement Lab. Team member Libby shares her hopes and reflections on this process.

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