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

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  • Keeping scepticism alive in health care improvement

    28 March 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Explore the role that philosophy can play in upholding an active culture of scepticism in health care improvement.

    • Polly Mitchell
      Polly Mitchell
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Policy and regulation
    • Workforce and people
  • Co-designing streamlined care for children’s services

    21 February 2024 
    8 minute read 

    Q Exchange project lead Clare Smith shares successes and challenges in creating a single point of access to children’s services in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

    • Clare Smith
      Clare Smith
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Complexity
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Process improvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Services
    • Children and young people
  • Sabrina Das, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, reflects on her work co-producing services with local mothers in the Family Voices Big Room.

    • Sabrina Das
      Sabrina Das
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • Learning from Q Lab: reflections on flow theory

    10 October 2022 
    4 minute read 

    Highlights from Q’s first Lab on how patients and staff can collaborate on ways to reduce waits for elective care.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    • Sarah Rae
      Sarah Rae
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Collaboration
    • Flow
    • Patient and public involvement
  • Read about how Q is approaching racial inequality and improvement and actions we can all consider to address this.

    • Tarnia Mason
      Tarnia Mason
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
  • Insights from Highland: NHS Near Me

    1 June 2020 
    8 minute read 

    Gain insights from the pace of change in NHS Scotland over the past decade and the move to digital services in light of the pandemic.

    • Maimie Thompson
      Maimie Thompson
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
  • COVID-19: insights from Highland

    3 April 2020 
    4 minute read 

    Gain insights from the pace of change in NHS Scotland over the past decade and how the pandemic made the seemingly impossible, possible.

    • Maimie Thompson
      Maimie Thompson
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Patient and public involvement
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