Opinion pieces

Katie and Spela explore what the Q Lab teams learned about ensuring equity while reducing appointment waiting times and share some top tips for ensuring equitable access to services.

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  Spela Godec
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  Katie Clarke-Day

Experts from across health care offer practical actions to design pathways that reduce waiting lists, support patients to wait well and put equity first throughout.

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  Ruth Coustick-Deal

Q member Krishna Nair explores the significant disparities in wound care among the nation’s most vulnerable populations and improvement initiatives.

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  Krishna Nair

Q member Lesley Goodburn shares how storytelling empowers co-produced, continuous improvement in person-centred care.

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  Lesley Goodburn

Discover 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

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.

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  Clare Smith

How using Clean Language questions in health and care reveals what really matters.

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  Judy Rees

Q delegates share their highlights from this year’s International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) conference.

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  Helen Crisp
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  Henry Cann

Miles Sibley tells us about the first-ever digital library of patient experience evidence and its potential to become a powerful new force in tackling health inequality.

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  Miles Sibley

Helen Lee at NHS England’s Experience of Care co-production programme tells us about some work her team has been doing to put co-production at the centre of quality improvement.

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  Helen Lee