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Opinion pieces

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

71 results
  • Three keys to advanced QI training success

    4 April 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Q member Caitlin Bateman reflects on the learning from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston’s QI Gold programme.

    • Caitlin Bateman
      Caitlin Bateman
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Q Exchange project lead Rachael Middle shares how Isle of Wight NHS Trust is improving digital inclusion for people accessing their mental health services.

    • Rachael Middle
      Rachael Middle
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Services
    • Mental health
  • Keeping scepticism alive in health care improvement

    28 March 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Explore the role that philosophy can play in upholding an active culture of scepticism in health care improvement.

    • Polly Mitchell
      Polly Mitchell
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Policy and regulation
    • Workforce and people
  • Q member Dominic Cushnan discusses a service that supports health and care services to plan and implement digital improvement projects.

    • Dominic Cushnan
      Dominic Cushnan
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • AI and automation
    • Digital technology
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Policy and regulation
  • 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
  • Q managing director Penny Pereira in conversation with Dr Amar Shah on his new role as National Clinical Director for Improvement.

    • Amar Shah
      Amar Shah
    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Themes and insights from our recent evidence review of social innovation labs and their impact within complex systems.

    • Libby Keck
      Libby Keck
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Innovation
  • Quality improvement and health inequalities

    15 January 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Look at how QI can impact health inequalities and learn about Queen Mary University of London research to explore the issue.

    • Lucy Johnson
      Lucy Johnson
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and 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
  • Improving productivity: resources from Q

    9 January 2024 
    7 minute read 

    Resources from Q to give you inspiration and help bring people with you when tackling health and care improvement in a system under pressure.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
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