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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 read 

    Q’s Managing Director Penny Pereira on what informed our future plans, what lies ahead and how you can be involved.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
  • In 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.

    • Chris Pavlakis
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
  • What burnout taught me

    16 June 2025 
    5 minute read 

    Guddi Singh reflects on what burn out taught her about leadership, impact and the cost of doing things differently.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • All together on the road to improvement

    6 June 2025 
    6 minute read 

    Q’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.

    • Anindita Ghosh
      Anindita Ghosh
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Networking
    • Spread and adoption
  • Q member Aicha Bouraoui reflects on how clarity and integrity can keep health care collaborations on track.

    • Aicha Bouraoui
      Aicha Bouraoui
    • Dr Cleo White
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
  • 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.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
  • Read 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
  • Creating a QI movement: how QI Week began

    10 September 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Q member Anita DeHavilland tells the story of creating QI Week running from 9 to 13 September 2024, and encourages you to get involved.

    • Anita DeHavilland
      Anita DeHavilland
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • 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.

    • Hilda Campbell
      Hilda Campbell
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Services
    • Voluntary services
  • Lessons in hiking: the ups and downs of making change

    19 June 2024 
    5 minute read 

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

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
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