Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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All together on the road to improvement
6 June 2025 6 minute readQ’s Head of Design and Collaboration tells us about a workshop looking at how peer collaboration can be used to deliver the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.
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Anindita Ghosh
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Networking
- Spread and adoption
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Maintaining authentic relationships for cross-organisational working
30 May 2025 6 minute readQ member Aicha Bouraoui reflects on how clarity and integrity can keep health care collaborations on track.
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Aicha Bouraoui
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Dr Cleo White
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
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How improvement approaches can support neighbourhood health models
19 March 2025 7 minute readBryan Jones, Senior Improvement Fellow at the Health Foundation, and Penny Pereira, Q’s Managing Director, discuss leveraging improvement expertise in implementing neighbourhood health models.
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Penny Pereira
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Bryan Jones
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Systems change
- Services
- Community services
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Q’s journey to becoming inclusive and accessible
6 March 2025 6 minute readAdriana Thursby-Pelham, Events Manager for Q, shares her reflections on some of our team’s recent work to become more accessible and inclusive.
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Adriana Thursby-Pelham
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Integrated strategies to mobilise change
13 December 2024 9 minute readThe ambition of the 10 Year Health Plan will need to integrate different approaches to change. Q’s Managing Director, Penny Pereira, sets out what is needed to support this.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Equitably tackling non-attendance of scheduled appointments
2 December 2024 8 minute readJade Okeke, Evaluation and Insight Intern for Q, shares emerging insights from teams working to reduce waits in health care through reducing the non-attendance of scheduled appointments.
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Jade Okeke
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Five lessons for meaningful external involvement in improvement work
20 November 2024 6 minute readExplore 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.
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Spela Godec
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
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How stakeholder and journey mapping can help you understand complex challenges
24 October 2024 6 minute readRead 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
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Continuous improvement and management capacity in general practice
2 October 2024 5 minute readRead about the views of leaders in general practice about the role of QI in their work amidst pressures in the sector.
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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
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How to bring an equitable approach to reducing waiting times
25 September 2024 6 minute readKatie 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.
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Spela Godec
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Katie Clarke-Day
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
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