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

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  • Improving patient communication and care with technology

    24 September 2024 
    10 minute read 

    A Q Exchange project looks at using innovative technology as part of an apporoach to reduce falls and pressure ulcers in elderly patients.

    • Jonathan Yazbek
      Jonathan Yazbek
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Health and prevention
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
    • Services
    • Mental health
    • Older people’s care
  • Q Managing Director Penny Pereira explores what improvement approaches and expertise will be needed for the health and care sector under the new government.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Mid-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.

    • The Team
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
  • 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
  • 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
  • A paediatric nurse explains how she developed an online training package for carers and parents of children with complex needs.

    • Una Hughes
      Una Hughes
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Services
    • Children and young people
  • Launch of UK’s first online patient experience library

    26 September 2023 
    5 minute read 

    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.

    • Miles Sibley
      Miles Sibley
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • Applying Juran’s Trilogy in the NHS

    13 March 2023 
    4 minute read 

    In his third blog in a series on designing a Quality Management System (QMS) for the NHS, Dr Tom Rose discusses how Juran’s Trilogy can be applied in a health care setting.

    • Thomas Rose
      Thomas Rose
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
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