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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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  • All together on the road to improvement

    6 June 2025 
    6 minute read 

    Q’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.

    • Anindita Ghosh
      Anindita Ghosh
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Networking
    • Spread and adoption
  • Q member Aicha Bouraoui reflects on how clarity and integrity can keep health care collaborations on track.

    • Aicha Bouraoui
      Aicha Bouraoui
    • Dr Cleo White
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
  • Bryan Jones, Senior Improvement Fellow at the Health Foundation, and Penny Pereira, Q’s Managing Director, discuss leveraging improvement expertise in implementing neighbourhood health models.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    • Bryan Jones
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Systems change
    • Services
    • Community services
  • Q’s journey to becoming inclusive and accessible

    6 March 2025 
    6 minute read 

    Adriana Thursby-Pelham, Events Manager for Q, shares her reflections on some of our team’s recent work to become more accessible and inclusive.

    • Adriana Thursby-Pelham
      Adriana Thursby-Pelham
  • Integrated strategies to mobilise change

    13 December 2024 
    9 minute read 

    The 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.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Jade 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.

    • Jade Okeke
      Jade Okeke
  • 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
    • Katie Clarke-Day
      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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