Nicola Platts (She/Her)

Programme Manager Flow Coaching Academy Yorkshire

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

England - Yorkshire and Humber

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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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Building improvement capability across boundaries

    This group is open to anyone interested in discussing, exploring and collaborating on project ideas for the Q Exchange 2019 theme, “Building improvement capabilities across boundaries”

  • Improvement Research Network

    The purpose of this community is to bridge the gap between academics involved in the fields of improvement and implementation science and improvement practitioners.  The SIG will create a forum that enables […]

  • 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 […]