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

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  • 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
  • Learning from Q Lab: Slowing down to move forward?

    10 January 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Learn how organisations collaborating to reduce delays are approaching improvement in these reflections from our Q Lab workshop.

    • Sarah Rae
      Sarah Rae
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • Clean Language in health care cuts to the chase

    4 December 2023 
    4 minute read 

    How using Clean Language questions in health and care reveals what really matters.

    • Judy Rees
      Judy Rees
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • In his second blog on worldviews and improvement, Q connector Andrew Ware considers how changing the logic behind improvement projects can support better outcomes.

    • Andrew Ware
      Andrew Ware
    Topics
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Q delegates share their highlights from this year’s International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) conference.

    • Helen Crisp
      Helen Crisp
    • Henry Cann
      Henry Cann
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Analytics and data
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Q member Dan Harley discusses how systems thinking can help QI practitioners to tackle wicked problems’.

    • Dan Harley
      Dan Harley
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Launch of UK’s first online patient experience library

    26 September 2023 
    5 minute read 

    Miles 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.

    • Miles Sibley
      Miles Sibley
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Using QI to improve joy in work

    31 August 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Julia Wood reflects on the Joy in Work Special Interest Group which looks at how to use QI tools to bring more enjoyment to the work day.

    • Julia Wood
      Julia Wood
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
  • Solving NHS demand challenges with a sustainability lens

    23 August 2023 
    7 minute read 

    Rachel McLean reflects on sustainability in quality improvement (SusQI) projects that show potential for improving patient care while saving staff time, saving money and reducing environmental impact.

    • Rachel McLean
      Rachel McLean
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Long-term conditions
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Helen Lee at NHS England’s Experience of Care co-production programme tells us about some work her team has been doing to put co-production at the centre of quality improvement.

    • Helen Lee
      Helen Lee
    Topics
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
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