Nicola Mayo

Team Lead

North Staffs Combined Health Care NHS Trust

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Member's groups

  • 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 […]

  • 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?

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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?

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Allied Health Professions in Quality Improvement

    We are hoping to raise the curiosity and profile of AHPs in Quality Improvement. We are looking for the inquisitive, the enthusiast and the improvement gurus to share the possibilities and experiences of quality […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Educators as Improvers

    Many people working in the world of healthcare will also have some sort of role in healthcare education; it might be that you’re a mentor to nursing students, a clinical educator for AHP students, a clinical or […]

  • 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 […]