Zoe Amar
Member's groups
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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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Measurement for Improvement
Are you interested in how we can make the best use of data to inform decision-making and take appropriate action? Are you frustrated that two point comparisons and RAG reports continue to dominate much of the […]
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Improving Joy in Work
The purpose of this Special Interest 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 […]
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Network Weaving
A group space for people interested in learning about Network Weaving, and developing their skills. -
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? -
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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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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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.
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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? -
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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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 […]
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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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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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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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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 […]
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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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Service Design
Are NHS Services designed or do they evolve over time? -
Process Visualisation in the NHS
This SIG will look at identifying and documenting, in flow chart format, process management in the NHS, both clinical and administrative processes are addressed. The structure of the Process Visualization set will […]
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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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Reimagining Health and Care
Reinventing Organisations, Buurtzorg, beyond new public management, Laloux, beyond budgeting, deliberately developmental, Clare Graves, brave new work, complexity, building communities, leadership for complex and chaotic times. What happens when you apply this in health and care? Join us and to share your learning and build new practice. -
Applying behavioural insights in healthcare
The latest insights from behavioural science help us better understand all of the factors that influence people’s behaviour – that’s patients and the public as well as healthcare staff. This helps us create more […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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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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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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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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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Clinical Audit in Quality Improvement
This SIG will look at best practice in national clinical audit, and how to ensure clinical audit is used as an effective part of quality improvement both nationally and locally.
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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:
* Learning and sharing – with o […] -
Bridging Networks
The ‘Bridging Network’ is a Special Interest Group for anyone interested in quality improvement across health and social care whether they are at the front line, in the board rooms, in the community or primary car […]
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College Q
A collaborative space for the QI leads of Colleges, Royal Colleges, Professional Bodies and Societies working together to improve patient care.
The SIG was initiated by Sam McIntyre and is currently looking for […]
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Frailty QI
If you are interested in Frailty as a Long Term condition and like to apply QI methodology to your work then this is the place for you. The purpose of this group is to collaborate, share and learn from each other, […]
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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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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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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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Technology to support QI Teams
Teams across the UK use a variety of hardware and software to support Quality Improvement and Innovation.
Through collaborating we will learn, share and apply how other #QITechTeams use technology, ranging from […]
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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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Delivering Virtual Training (#ConnectingImprovers)
This SIG has been created in response to a shared need nationally to move from face to face training to virtual delivery, as a result of Covid-19.
This is a shared space to network, share and test ideas and […]
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Making use of patient experience
Do we over-measure patient experience? Are we helped by the Friends and Family Test, CQC patient surveys, NHS Choices star ratings, Patient Opinion snapshot comments, local Healthwatch reports, Trust and CCG […]
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Urgent and Emergency Care
The importance of keeping the front door of acute services open, flowing and safe for patients has never been greater. With a relentless increase in numbers attending ED, OOH services at breaking point in the […]
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Q Visits
This is a place to continue conversations from any of the Q Visits held to date. Use this space to share updates on new insights, resources, and any progress or challenges you’ve encountered since applying your […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Improvement Capability framework project
Group space for work on the Improvement Capability framework Q Exchange project.
See project page: https://q.health.org.uk/idea/populating-a-qi-capability-model-and-using-it-for-benchlearning-in-the-q-community-and-beyond/
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Exploring Adaptive Space – community of practice
This group is for people interesting in understanding and applying Prof Mary Uhl-Bien’s framework of ’Adaptive Spaces’ and ’Complexity Leadership’.
Mary explains the crucial role of ’Adaptive Spaces’ in […]
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Organisational Resilience & Safety-II
We strive to provide high quality, safe care whilst operating in a complex environment, facing considerable uncertainty on a daily basis. The degree of volatility, complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity is […]
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Yorkshire and Humber Quality Improvement Network
We are developing a community of quality improvement (QI) enthusiasts within the Yorkshire and Humber Region which ranges from experienced Q practitioners through to QI enthusiasts at the start of their […]
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Women’s Health
This group aims to:
– Oversee QI projects within the women’s health domain and help Health Foundation to facilitate wider dissemination of approved projects.Provide strategic insights, planning to address u […]
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Evaluation
Appropriate good quality evaluation is essential component of quality improvement. This group has been set up to link members who have experience, expertise and an interest in the evaluation of quality […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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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Decarbonisation within NHS Wales
The group is designed for those who want to discuss decarbonisation and related improvement ideas for Wales. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world saw amazing improvements in the environment to show us what is possible. Decarbonisation can lead to huge gains in preventing and reducing ill-health. -
”Hospitals without walls”- providing healthcare at Home
This group is convened by Kirsten Protherough
Exploring innovations and innovative practice enables healthcare at home.
This is an important consideration in the older population in whom hospital based care […]
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Q in Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire (GMEC)
This group’s aim is to bring together Q members from across the Greater Manchester and Eastern Cheshire (GMEC) footprint to share knowledge, experiences, and seek expert support through collaborative learning a […]
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Anaesthetists
This is a special interest group set up for Anaesthetists to share their experiences and learning from improvement work as well as supporting training and development.
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Harm Free Care
The group’s aim is to support the delivery of harm free care and the recording of measurable outcomes by:
Tracking and monitoring incidents of harm in community patients, mapping current harm free care […]
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Dialogic Organisation Development
This special interest group is designed for anyone with an interest in a dialogic approach to improvement and organisation development. This contemporary approach to OD views organisations as fluid, socially […]
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Network Weaving learning series
A closed group space for participants taking part in the full Network Weaving learning series. -
Bedside Learning Coordinator – Community of Practice
The “Bedside Learning Coordinator” (BLC) role was created at the NHS Nightingale Hospital London. The role was designed to support the wider learning health system, capturing staff insights into what was and was […]