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Opinion pieces

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

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Keeping scepticism alive in health care improvement

    28 March 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Explore the role that philosophy can play in upholding an active culture of scepticism in health care improvement.

    • Polly Mitchell
      Polly Mitchell
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Policy and regulation
    • Workforce and people
  • 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
  • Themes and insights from our recent evidence review of social innovation labs and their impact within complex systems.

    • Libby Keck
      Libby Keck
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Innovation
  • The Meaning of Quality and the Juran Trilogy

    26 January 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Following on from our webinar and blog on Designing a Quality Management System for the NHS, Dr Tom Rose takes a closer look at the Juran Trilogy, its definition of quality and how it can be applied.

    • Thomas Rose
      Thomas Rose
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Loretta Jenkins explains how Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) is applying human factors to improve safety, quality and efficiency in health care settings

    • Loretta Jenkins
      Loretta Jenkins
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Analytics and data
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • The case for building a Quality Management System

    14 January 2020 
    6 minute read 

    Fredrik Johansson joined a Q Visit to Health Improvement Scotland (HIS) to learn about their work in developing a national quality management system and how this could help deliver high-quality care.

    • Freddie Johansson
      Freddie Johansson
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement capability
    • Process improvement
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
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