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Opinion pieces

Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.

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  • Explore what we learned about collaboratively bringing in external perspectives to the Q Lab improvement projects, and our suggestions for how to bring these perspectives into your improvement work.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
  • Read about how Q Labs explore complexity and challenges in health care at system level using stakeholder and journey mapping.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Read about the views of leaders in general practice about the role of QI in their work amidst pressures in the sector.

    • Rammya Mathew
      Rammya Mathew
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
    • Services
    • Primary care
  • How to bring an equitable approach to reducing waiting times

    25 September 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Katie and Spela explore what the Q Lab teams learned about ensuring equity while reducing appointment waiting times and share some top tips for ensuring equitable access to services.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • Improving patient communication and care with technology

    24 September 2024 
    10 minute read 

    A Q Exchange project looks at using innovative technology as part of an apporoach to reduce falls and pressure ulcers in elderly patients.

    • Jonathan Yazbek
      Jonathan Yazbek
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Health and prevention
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
    • Services
    • Mental health
    • Older people’s care
  • Creating a QI movement: how QI Week began

    10 September 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Q member Anita DeHavilland tells the story of creating QI Week running from 9 to 13 September 2024, and encourages you to get involved.

    • Anita DeHavilland
      Anita DeHavilland
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Q’s new co-designed website launches this autumn

    27 August 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Digital Manager Betty-Sue Smith highlights how members’ insights have been central to building Q’s new website.

    • Betty-Sue Smith
      Betty-Sue Smith
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
  • Matthew Hill, Head of Insight, Evaluation and Research, gives an update on the independent evaluation of Q.

    • Matthew Hill
      Matthew Hill
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
  • My Improvement Journey: Lawrence Mudford

    22 August 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Lawrence Mudford shares his improvement journey, from dentistry to perioperative care, and invites you to join an upcoming series of webinars on prehabilitation and rehabilitation.

    • Lawrence Mudford
      Lawrence Mudford
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • Sid Beech shares his experience of kickstarting the Q Exchange project, Systems QI Practitioner Programme, with a co-design session to agree the scope, audience and draft topic outline.

    • Sid Beech
      Sid Beech
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Measurement for improvement
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Process improvement
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