Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Improvement skills needed: turning election pledges into implemented plans
10 June 2024 3 minute readQ Managing Director Penny Pereira explores what improvement approaches and expertise will be needed for the health and care sector under the new government.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Productivity
- Improvement and innovation
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Professional advocates creating recovery space for nurses and midwives
3 June 2024 4 minute readProfessional Advocacy is a network of nursing and midwifery professionals helping this vital workforce to recover and grow.
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Martin Hogan
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Evaluating QI capacity building
28 May 2024 2 minute readRead an evaluation based on the Kirkpatrick model about QI capacity building using workforce collaboration and leadership and management.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Creating a hospital passport for patients with dementia
10 May 2024 5 minute readDiscover how a student nurse in a care home developed a hospital passport so that patients with dementia were better able to let hospital carers know how to look after their needs.
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Carol Dale
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Long-term conditions
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Patient and public involvement
- Quality of care
- Health equity
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
- Services
- End of life care
- Older people’s care
- Social care
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The power of improvement: highlights from this year’s International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare
9 May 2024 8 minute readThe Q team share the improvement themes from this year’s Forum, including looking at failure, rule-breaking and adding rigour to QI.
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Penny Pereira
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Libby Keck
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Matthew Hill
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Spela Godec
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Innovation
- Spread and adoption
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
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How healing and trust play a part in health improvement
30 April 2024 4 minute readQ member Sabrina Das reflects on an Experience Day and how trust built in a local community that had suffered historical trauma contributed to its success.
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Sabrina Das
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Health and prevention
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Patient and public involvement
- Services
- Community services
- Maternity and neo-natal
- Voluntary services
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How our Q Exchange 5 projects are approaching the issue of delays
25 April 2024 6 minute readMid-way into their projects, we’re finding common themes in approaches to improving equity while tackling delays across a huge range of patients and conditions.
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The Team
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
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Communities of Practice and QI in health and care
23 April 2024 5 minute readAfra Kelsall, Senior Advisor at the Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN), shares her learning about the Communities of Practice model and shared decision making.
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Afra Kelsall
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Improvement capability
- Quality of care
- Health equity
- Services
- Community services
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Three keys to advanced QI training success
4 April 2024 4 minute readQ member Caitlin Bateman reflects on the learning from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston’s QI Gold programme.
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Caitlin Bateman
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Addressing digital exclusion in mental health services
3 April 2024 7 minute readQ Exchange project lead Rachael Middle shares how Isle of Wight NHS Trust is improving digital inclusion for people accessing their mental health services.
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Rachael Middle
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Services
- Mental health
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