Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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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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Keeping scepticism alive in health care improvement
28 March 2024 6 minute readExplore the role that philosophy can play in upholding an active culture of scepticism in health care improvement.
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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
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Digital adopters in health and care: what you need to know
4 March 2024 4 minute readQ member Dominic Cushnan discusses a service that supports health and care services to plan and implement digital improvement projects.
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Dominic Cushnan
Topics- Digital and data
- AI and automation
- Digital technology
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Policy and regulation
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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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Bringing a sense of shared purpose to improvement at a national scale
20 February 2024 10 minute readQ managing director Penny Pereira in conversation with Dr Amar Shah on his new role as National Clinical Director for Improvement.
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Amar Shah
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Social innovation labs: strengthening health and care improvement
30 January 2024 5 minute readThemes and insights from our recent evidence review of social innovation labs and their impact within complex systems.
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Libby Keck
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
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Quality improvement and health inequalities
15 January 2024 4 minute readLook at how QI can impact health inequalities and learn about Queen Mary University of London research to explore the issue.
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Lucy Johnson
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Learning from Q Lab: Slowing down to move forward?
10 January 2024 4 minute readLearn how organisations collaborating to reduce delays are approaching improvement in these reflections from our Q Lab workshop.
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Sarah Rae
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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Improving productivity: resources from Q
9 January 2024 7 minute readResources from Q to give you inspiration and help bring people with you when tackling health and care improvement in a system under pressure.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Productivity
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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