Opinion pieces
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 readQ 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.
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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
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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
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Services
- Children and young people
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Amplifying diverse voices: ingredients for successful co-production
5 July 2023 6 minute readSabrina Das, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, reflects on her work co-producing services with local mothers in the Family Voices Big Room.
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Sabrina Das
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Services
- Mental health
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Start somewhere and go everywhere: setting up a Community of Practice for those with neurodiversity
9 November 2022 4 minute readSophia Mody reflects on how setting up a Community of Practice at her trust has cultivated welcoming and empowering social spaces for neurodiverse staff members and patients.
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Sophia Mody
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Services
- Mental health
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The power of reflective practice in staff recovery and wellbeing
8 July 2022 5 minute readMore than ever as health care practitioners, we needs ways of capturing and making sense of experiences we’ve been through so we can use them to improve not only patient care, but our own wellbeing.
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Margaret Codd
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
- Services
- Mental health
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