Opinion pieces

Explore 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

Read about how Q Labs explore complexity and challenges in health care at system level using stakeholder and journey mapping.

Q 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

Hilda 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

Q member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.

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  Guddi Singh

President 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

Read an evaluation based on the Kirkpatrick model about QI capacity building using workforce collaboration and leadership and management.

Q 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

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

Q member Caitlin Bateman reflects on the learning from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston’s QI Gold programme.

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  Caitlin Bateman