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

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  • Integrated strategies to mobilise change

    13 December 2024 
    9 minute read 

    The ambition of the 10 Year Health Plan will need to integrate different approaches to change. Q’s Managing Director, Penny Pereira, sets out what is needed to support this.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Read about the views of leaders in general practice about the role of QI in their work amidst pressures in the sector.

    • Rammya Mathew
      Rammya Mathew
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
    • Services
    • Primary care
  • Top tips for engaging stakeholders in reducing waits

    16 July 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Five lessons teams participating in Q Lab learned about engaging stakeholders in their work to reduce waits.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Flow
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Process improvement
    • Spread and adoption
  • The Q team share the improvement themes from this year’s Forum, including looking at failure, rule-breaking and adding rigour to QI.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    • Libby Keck
      Libby Keck
    • Matt Hill
      Matt Hill
    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
  • Communities of Practice and QI in health and care

    23 April 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Afra Kelsall, Senior Advisor at the Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN), shares her learning about the Communities of Practice model and shared decision making.

    • Afra Kelsall
      Afra Kelsall
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Improvement capability
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
    • Services
    • Community services
  • Three keys to advanced QI training success

    4 April 2024 
    4 minute read 

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

    • Caitlin Bateman
      Caitlin Bateman
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Q member Dominic Cushnan discusses a service that supports health and care services to plan and implement digital improvement projects.

    • Dominic Cushnan
      Dominic Cushnan
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • AI and automation
    • Digital technology
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Policy and regulation
  • Improving productivity: resources from Q

    9 January 2024 
    7 minute read 

    Resources from Q to give you inspiration and help bring people with you when tackling health and care improvement in a system under pressure.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
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