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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
  • A paediatric nurse explains how she developed an online training package for carers and parents of children with complex needs.

    • Una Hughes
      Una Hughes
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • 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
  • Sophia 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.

    • Sophia Mody
      Sophia Mody
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • More 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.

    • Margaret Codd
      Margaret Codd
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Mental health
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