Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Miles Sibley
29 July 2025 4 minute readIn this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.
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Miles Sibley
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Rammya Mathew
28 July 2025 3 minute readIn this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.
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Rammya Mathew
Topics- Digital and data
- AI and automation
- Improvement and innovation
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: David Seamark
25 July 2025 3 minute readIn this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.
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David Seamark
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Health and prevention
- Improvement and innovation
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Chris Pavlakis
24 July 2025 4 minute readIn this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.
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Chris Pavlakis
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Patient and public involvement
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Andrea Gibbons
21 July 2025 3 minute readIn this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.
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Andrea Gibbons
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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How to bring an equitable approach to reducing waiting times
25 September 2024 6 minute readKatie 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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Katie Clarke-Day
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Long-term conditions
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Patient and public involvement
- Systems change
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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How senior leaders can support patients to wait well
22 July 2024 5 minute readExperts 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
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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Bridging gaps: enhancing wound care for vulnerable patients
18 July 2024 3 minute readQ 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
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
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From furniture logistics to person-centred care
4 July 2024 3 minute readQ member Lesley Goodburn shares how storytelling empowers co-produced, continuous improvement in person-centred care.
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Lesley Goodburn
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Improvement culture
- Patient and public involvement
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
- Services
- End of life care
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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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