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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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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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Sustainable Healthcare
Sustainability should be considered a domain of quality in healthcare. Sustainable value considers patient and population outcomes against environmental, social and economic costs. Sustainable value may be […]
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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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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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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 […] -
Big Data
Big data is opening up new challenges and opportunities for quality improvement. This group has been set up for members to share learning and experiences, find out about new methods and innovations, discuss the […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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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UK Wide Community Event – November 2019
This year’s UK-wide community event will be in London, on Wednesday 13 November 2019. Please join this group if you would like to volunteer to be involved in shaping the day.
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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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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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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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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.
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Reimagining Health and Care
This Reimagining Health and Care Special Interest Group is for people actively working to explore how we might reimagine our health care system to recognise individuals and communities as health producing. I […]
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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:
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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 group is convened by Sam McIntyre and Jean MacLeod.
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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. -
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.
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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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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”
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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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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 […]
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Understanding alternatives to traditional models of outpatients
This group is open to anyone interested in discussing, exploring and collaborating on project ideas for the Q Exchange 2019 theme, “Understanding alternatives to traditional models of outpatients”
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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.
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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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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 […]
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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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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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South West Q
A group for Q members in the South West to communicate, share and learn with and from each other.
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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).
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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 […]
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Developing Research Capacity in Quality Improvement
There is potential to develop quality improvement projects as research, but it is not always straightforward. This group will discuss how to build research capacity, funding, methodology and offer support and […]
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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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West of England
A group space for Q members in the West of England.
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Q Exchange Design Reference Group
A group to help design Q Exchange 2019.
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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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UK Wide Community Event – September 2018
Our next UK wide community event will be in Birmingham, on Wednesday 19 September 2018. Please join this group if you would like to volunteer to be involved in shaping the day!
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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 with knowledge of the IHI Joy in Work Framework, alongside novices who would like to know more.
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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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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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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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Primary Care
Liz is a GP in Horsham in the Kent Surrey and Sussex region. She is starting up a group for any interested GPs, doctors and nurses in primary care in Q to share ideas and support each other. As everyone is […]
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Q Exchange 2018 Award Holders
This group is a space for Q Exchange 2018 award holders to connect and share.
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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 […]
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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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Infection
Surgical site infections represent a significant portion of health care associated infections. A majority are largely preventable, however, evidence based strategies have been available for over ten years and […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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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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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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 […]
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Staff Wellbeing and Quality Health Care
Hilda realises the importance of providing a quality health care service for others, however people who work in health care have wellbeing needs too. It’s recognised that staff wellbeing is key to a quality h […]
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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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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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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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Q team
A Buddypress Group space for the Q team.
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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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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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Redesigning the organisational landscape
I am developing a route-map for STPs wishing to navigate their way to an organisational landscape fit to commission and deliver integrated models of care. I am interested in connecting with others working on […]
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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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Curious QI
Curiosity brings to mind images of inquisitive children (”…but why?..”), mad inventors and maybe even dead cats. But there is an increasing evidence that curiosity as a trait is not only desirable at a personal […]
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Organisational Resilience
We strive to provide high quality, safe care whilst operating in a complex environment, facing considerable uncertainty on a daily basis. The degree of complexity and uncertainty is increasing but the system must […]
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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 […]
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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).