Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Q’s direction and the path ahead
10 October 2025 6 minute readQ’s Managing Director Penny Pereira on what informed our future plans, what lies ahead and how you can be involved.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
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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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What burnout taught me
16 June 2025 5 minute readGuddi Singh reflects on what burn out taught her about leadership, impact and the cost of doing things differently.
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Guddi Singh
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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All together on the road to improvement
6 June 2025 6 minute readQ’s Head of Design and Collaboration tells us about a workshop looking at how peer collaboration can be used to deliver the NHS 10 Year Health Plan.
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Anindita Ghosh
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Networking
- Spread and adoption
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Maintaining authentic relationships for cross-organisational working
30 May 2025 6 minute readQ member Aicha Bouraoui reflects on how clarity and integrity can keep health care collaborations on track.
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Dr Cleo White
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
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Five lessons for meaningful external involvement in improvement work
20 November 2024 6 minute readExplore what we learned about collaboratively bringing in external perspectives to the Q Lab improvement projects, and our suggestions for how to bring these perspectives into your improvement work.
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Spela Godec
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
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How stakeholder and journey mapping can help you understand complex challenges
24 October 2024 6 minute readRead about how Q Labs explore complexity and challenges in health care at system level using stakeholder and journey mapping.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Creating a QI movement: how QI Week began
10 September 2024 3 minute readQ member Anita DeHavilland tells the story of creating QI Week running from 9 to 13 September 2024, and encourages you to get involved.
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Anita DeHavilland
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Applying Liberating Structures to support co-production and design
5 August 2024 4 minute readHilda Campbell MBE, CEO of COPE Scotland, shares what she’s learnt about the power of Liberating Structures for recruiting and retaining volunteers for health and care improvement.
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Hilda Campbell
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Services
- Voluntary services
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Lessons in hiking: the ups and downs of making change
19 June 2024 5 minute readQ member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.
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Guddi Singh
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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