Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Learning from our Community Hospitals Special Interest Group
18 June 2024 5 minute readPresident of the Community Hospitals Association, Helen Tucker reflects on her improvement work with patients and communities on local health and social care services.
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Helen Tucker
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Services
- Community services
- Voluntary services
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Professional advocates creating recovery space for nurses and midwives
3 June 2024 4 minute readProfessional Advocacy is a network of nursing and midwifery professionals helping this vital workforce to recover and grow.
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Martin Hogan
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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How healing and trust play a part in health improvement
30 April 2024 4 minute readQ member Sabrina Das reflects on an Experience Day and how trust built in a local community that had suffered historical trauma contributed to its success.
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Sabrina Das
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Health and prevention
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Patient and public involvement
- Services
- Community services
- Maternity and neo-natal
- Voluntary services
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The power of reflective practice in staff recovery and wellbeing
8 July 2022 5 minute readMore than ever as health care practitioners, we needs ways of capturing and making sense of experiences we’ve been through so we can use them to improve not only patient care, but our own wellbeing.
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Margaret Codd
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
- Services
- Mental health
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