Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Transforming training for carers of children with complex needs
21 November 2023 7 minute readA paediatric nurse explains how she developed an online training package for carers and parents of children with complex needs.
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Una Hughes
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Services
- Children and young people
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Six ways the quality of health care is improving across the world
12 October 2023 6 minute readQ delegates share their highlights from this year’s International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) conference.
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Henry Cann
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Launch of UK’s first online patient experience library
26 September 2023 5 minute readMiles Sibley tells us about the first-ever digital library of patient experience evidence and its potential to become a powerful new force in tackling health inequality.
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Miles Sibley
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Applying Juran’s Trilogy in the NHS
13 March 2023 4 minute readIn his third blog in a series on designing a Quality Management System (QMS) for the NHS, Dr Tom Rose discusses how Juran’s Trilogy can be applied in a health care setting.
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Thomas Rose
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
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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 health and 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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A Lean approach to providing high quality care on demand
21 October 2021 4 minute readRead about using Lean principles to manage patient flow at a GP surgery handling longer term and urgent demand
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Christopher Weatherburn
Topics- Digital and data
- Measurement for improvement
- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Productivity
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Insights from Highland: NHS Near Me
1 June 2020 8 minute readGain insights from the pace of change in NHS Scotland over the past decade and the move to digital services in light of the pandemic.
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Maimie Thompson
Topics- Digital and data
- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
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