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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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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 […]

  • 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'
  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Community Hospitals SIG: sharing good practice

    The Community Hospitals: sharing good practice Special Interest Group (SIG) has a focus on sharing good practice and networking.  The SIG brings together members who want to explore their experiences, look at […]

  • Perioperative Care – Prehabilitation

    The Q Perioperative Care-Prehabilitation Special Interest Group (SIG) is hosted by Macmillan Cancer Support and the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), a partnership between health charities, professional […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • ”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 […]

  • Service Design

    Are NHS Services designed or do they evolve over time?
  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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?
  • Q Groups (SIGs) Leads & Conveners

    A closed group for active leads & conveners of Q special interest groups (SIGs) to share experiences, challenges and best practices, request help/support, explore cross-SIG collaboration, and more.

    The aim is […]

  • 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 […]

  • PSIRF – Patient Safety Incident Response Framework

    This is a space for Q members to connect on the successes, challenges, learning and opportunities around the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

    By joining this SIG, we hope that you can bring your […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Videos & Podcasts

    Learn the basics of content creation: how to record, script, edit and post videos and podcasts. Not only that, but join other enthusiastic beginners and share your social media journey - together, we can make our knowledge engaging and easy to access.
  • Systems Convening community of practice

    This group will support the cross-boundary learning and catalysing work being done by Systems Conveners – offering a space to share successes and get help with challenges.
    A number of Q member Systems Conveners a […]

  • 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 Connectors

    A network for members who love connecting people and ideas across boundaries (and who can help push the boundaries of what’s possible for all of us in Q).

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • Adoption and Spread Collective

    There are 3 things we can be certain of in healthcare and we would like to close the gap on:

    1. We know there is on average, a 17 year gap between new evidence of best practice and the adoption of this in […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.
    This group is co-convened by Cleo […]

  • Connecting Q Locally

    A group to support learning and sharing of experiences and challenges across all the groups that have received ’Connecting Q Locally’ funding.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Patient Safety Community (QPS Ireland)

    This closed group (invitation only) is co-convened by Catherine Hogan and Noemi Palacios.

    The purpose of this community is to create a supportive network for all staff working in quality and patient safety in […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.
  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Philosophy and ethics for health care improvement

    This group is for people who are interested in discussing the fundamental purposes of health care improvement and some of the ethical issues that arise in planning, conducting or researching improvement. It is […]

  • Q Exchange 5 teams

    A space for Q Exchange 5 project teams to come together to share questions, experiences, learning and ideas.

  • Q Exchange 2018 Award Holders

    This group is a space for Q Exchange 2018 award holders to connect and share.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • Learning from Excellence

    Whilst it is important to learn from events where things have not gone well, the majority of healthcare interactions go safely. Despite this, we have focus the much of our learning about safety from adverse […]

  • 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”

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Q

    LLR Q is a virtual space designed to bring together people with a passion for quality improvement across the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland health and social care economy.

    The ambition is to create […]

  • Network Weaving

    A group space for people interested in learning about Network Weaving, and developing their skills.
  • Embedding Improvement in Systems

    A closed group space for participants taking part in our Embedding Improvement in Systems series.

    This group is convened by Darren Wright.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Improving Improvement (Q Exchange project)

    The purpose of this SIG is to provide an online space for the discussion, exploration and development of the Q Exchange project Improving Improvement.

    The project seeks to co-design and develop resources for Q […]

  • Child Health and Wellbeing Group

    This group is co-convened by Sahana Rao, Guddi Singh and Megan Peng

    Building a community of practice focussed on improving the experience and outcomes of children and young people and their families.

    In the […]

  • 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 […]

  • Medicine Management

    The purpose of this SIG is to address the challenges facing all health and social care providers in managing medicines.
    Effective medicine management is fundamentally important for patient care. In England, the […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • College Q

    A collaborative space for the QI leads of Colleges, Royal Colleges, Professional Bodies and Societies working together to improve patient care.

    The group is convened by Sam McIntyre and Jean MacLeod.

  • 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.

  • 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, […]

  • 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 […]

  • South West Q

    A group for Q members in the South West to communicate, share and learn with and from each other.
    This group is supported by Jen Ellis.

  • Q Partners

    A space for Q Partner teams to ask questions, share what’s working well, get help with challenges and more.

    We will share reports from our bi-monthly Partner calls here.

  • Q in the North West Coast

    We have a collaborative space on Facebook for people who are members of the Q Community in the North West Coast. It was set up by the Innovation Agency who are leading on communications for the community, to e […]

  • Ambulance Services and QI

    Leading on quality improvement initiatives and developing quality improvement capability across pre-hospital care requires different approaches to other types of quality improvement. This group offers a space to […]

  • Q Improvement Framework Resources

    This public space is solely for hosting the resources for the Q Improvement Capability framework tool.
    To get involved in developing and using the QI Capability tool, go here: https://q.health.org.uk/community/gro […]

  • West of England

    Hello West of England Qs! Thank you for joining our regional group that is convened by the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).

    As a West of England Q you will receive emails from the AHSN […]

  • Renal Care

    A Special Interest Group for renal disease was launched by members Jane and Richard. This national group supports existing national KQUiP aims- offering members opportunities for influence and […]

  • Q team

    A Buddypress Group space for the Q team.

  • Somerset

    This group will bring together Q members in Somerset to collaborate and build our collective improvement expertise for the common purpose of improving healthcare for the population of Somerset.  The group will […]

  • 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 […]

  • Reducing Diagnostic Errors

    Diagnostic errors are a common cause of patient harm. This can happen when a diagnosis is missed, wrong or delayed and it is estimated 11 in every 10 diagnoses are wrong. Diagnostic error is most likely the thing […]

  • Radiotherapy Quality

    This SIG is formed to facilitate sharing of information, expertise and learning for the benefit of patient safety and quality improvement in Radiotherapy service.

    The group aims to bring together radiotherapy […]

  • 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 […]

  • Oxford AHSN (Thames Valley area) Group

    A group for Q members in the Thames Valley area to communicate, share and learn with and from each other. Supported by the Oxford Patient Safety Collaborative as part of the Oxford AHSN.

    This group is […]

  • Videos & Podcasts

    This group aims to explore Health & Care-focused content creation – especially in the form of videos and podcasts for social media. It is not aimed at established creators: from beginners and long-term creators, […]

  • 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 […]

  • Perinatal community of practice

    A supportive community of Perinatal professionals continuously improving outcomes for preterm babies.

    Conveners of the group are: Noshin Menzies (QI coach), Vardeep Deogan (QI coach), Pippa Craggs (Proj […]

  • Generation Q Fellows

    This group provides a community forum for any GenerationQ fellows interested in sharing learning, continuing conversations, discovering new insights and developing best practice around the four elements of leadership for improvement: Contextual, Relational, Technical and Personal.
  • Q Visit: Public Digital (virtual)

    This group space is for members coming along to the virtual Q Visit with Public Digital, to share, learn and connect before and after the Visit.
  • Q Visit: UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing (in-person)

    This group space is for members coming along to the virtual Q Visit to the National Innovation Centre for Ageing in Newcastle on 26 April 2022, to share, learn and connect before and after the Visit.
  • South West Q Commons Stewardship Group

    A group space for the members of the South West Q Commons Stewardship Group to communicate, share and progress our agenda to support our region’s Q members. (Learn about Q’s Commons structure here).

  • Improvement Science for ECR/PhDs in health & care

    This is a group for Health Foundation Improvement Science PhD fellows, as they move into early career researcher and academic roles and/or back into practice. The group is not a closed group and other Early Career […]

  • Supporting local learning

    A space for project teams to share learning and support each other with your projects.

  • Q Exchange Design Reference Group

    A group to help design Q Exchange 2019.