Opinion pieces
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 readLawrence Mudford shares his improvement journey, from dentistry to perioperative care, and invites you to join an upcoming series of webinars on prehabilitation and rehabilitation.
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Lawrence Mudford
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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Co-designing the Systems Quality Improvement Practitioner Programme
15 August 2024 4 minute readSid 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.
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Sid Beech
Topics- Digital and data
- Measurement for improvement
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Process improvement
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Applying Liberating Structures to support co-production and design
5 August 2024 4 minute readHilda 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.
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Hilda Campbell
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Services
- Voluntary services
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How senior leaders can support patients to wait well
22 July 2024 5 minute readExperts from across health care offer practical actions to design pathways that reduce waiting lists, support patients to wait well and put equity first throughout.
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Ruth Coustick-Deal
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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Bridging gaps: enhancing wound care for vulnerable patients
18 July 2024 3 minute readQ member Krishna Nair explores the significant disparities in wound care among the nation’s most vulnerable populations and improvement initiatives.
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Krishna Nair
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Top tips for engaging stakeholders in reducing waits
16 July 2024 6 minute readFive lessons teams participating in Q Lab learned about engaging stakeholders in their work to reduce waits.
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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
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Rethinking waiting lists: insights from Community Appointment Days
10 July 2024 3 minute readQ member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.
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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
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From furniture logistics to person-centred care
4 July 2024 3 minute readQ member Lesley Goodburn shares how storytelling empowers co-produced, continuous improvement in person-centred care.
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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
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Lessons in hiking: the ups and downs of making change
19 June 2024 5 minute readQ member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.
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Guddi Singh
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Learning from our Community Hospitals Special Interest Group
18 June 2024 5 minute readPresident of the Community Hospitals Association, Helen Tucker reflects on her improvement work with patients and communities on local health and social care services.
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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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