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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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  • 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
  • With fieldwork for the 2025 NHS staff survey set to begin, we reflect on the results of the 2024 survey and what we can learn about staff engagement – and its consequences for improvement.

    • Bryan Jones
    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    • Nicola Burgess
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • From furniture logistics to person-centred care

    4 July 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Q member Lesley Goodburn shares how storytelling empowers co-produced, continuous improvement in person-centred care.

    • Lesley Goodburn
      Lesley Goodburn
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Improvement culture
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • End of life care
  • 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
  • President of the Community Hospitals Association, Helen Tucker reflects on her improvement work with patients and communities on local health and social care services.

    • Helen Tucker
      Helen Tucker
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Voluntary services
  • How healing and trust play a part in health improvement

    30 April 2024 
    4 minute read 

    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.

    • Sabrina Das
      Sabrina Das
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Health and prevention
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Services
    • Community services
    • Maternity and neo-natal
    • Voluntary services
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