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

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  • 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
  • Hilda Campbell MBE, CEO of COPE Scotland, shares what she’s learnt about the power of Liberating Structures for recruiting and retaining volunteers for health and care improvement.

    • Hilda Campbell
      Hilda Campbell
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Services
    • Voluntary services
  • How senior leaders can support patients to wait well

    22 July 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Experts from across health care offer practical actions to design pathways that reduce waiting lists, support patients to wait well and put equity first throughout.

    • Ruth Coustick-Deal
      Ruth Coustick-Deal
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • Q member Krishna Nair explores the significant disparities in wound care among the nation’s most vulnerable populations and improvement initiatives.

    • Krishna Nair
      Krishna Nair
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Top tips for engaging stakeholders in reducing waits

    16 July 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Five lessons teams participating in Q Lab learned about engaging stakeholders in their work to reduce waits.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Flow
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Process improvement
    • Spread and adoption
  • Q member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.

    • Joanna Kitchen
      Joanna Kitchen
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • From furniture logistics to person-centred care

    4 July 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Q member Lesley Goodburn shares how storytelling empowers co-produced, continuous improvement in person-centred care.

    • Lesley Goodburn
      Lesley Goodburn
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Improvement culture
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • End of life care
  • Lessons in hiking: the ups and downs of making change

    19 June 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Q member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • President of the Community Hospitals Association, Helen Tucker reflects on her improvement work with patients and communities on local health and social care services.

    • Helen Tucker
      Helen Tucker
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Voluntary services
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