Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Improving productivity: resources from Q
9 January 2024 7 minute readResources from Q to give you inspiration and help bring people with you when tackling health and care improvement in a system under pressure.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Productivity
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Redefining who and what counts when it comes to health improvement
7 November 2023 5 minute readHelp us consider who else might benefit from joining Q’s health and care improvement community and learn about the strategic case for improvement.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
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The power of peer-to-peer approaches to kickstart lasting culture change
13 July 2023 6 minute readUnlocking change and innovation through ‘microclimate’ peer networks
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Maria Dorthea Skov
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Innovation
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Human factors: designing systems for safety, quality and efficiency
23 May 2022 4 minute readLoretta Jenkins explains how Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) is applying human factors to improve safety, quality and efficiency in health care settings
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Loretta Jenkins
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Learning from Excellence: the transformational power of praise
2 February 2022 6 minute readWhat if we set up a quality framework with patients and staff that used positive feedback to improve morale and model the social behaviours we want to reinforce in care settings?
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Gemma Crossingham
Topics- Digital and data
- Measurement for improvement
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Spread and adoption
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Effective CQC action planning: Seven steps to success
4 June 2020 6 minute readQ member Graham Hinchcliffe shares seven steps for CQC action planning, drawing on his time successfully managing this process in multiple NHS trusts.
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Graham Hinchcliffe
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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