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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 member Guddi Singh on what led her to create a new BBC Radio 4 series asking the questions the health service avoids – and what the answers mean for improvement.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Health and prevention
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Children and young people
    • Community services
  • 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
  • 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
  • Q Managing Director Penny Pereira explores what improvement approaches and expertise will be needed for the health and care sector under the new government.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In his second blog in this series, Q connector Andrew Ware considers how changing the logic behind improvement projects can help to deal with uncertainty. Part two of a two-part series.

    • Andrew Ware
      Andrew Ware
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Organisational development
  • Andrew Ware takes a global view in this piece about looking outward for system improvement. Part one of a two-part series.

    • Andrew Ware
      Andrew Ware
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Experience the transformative power of a Q Visit to Huddlecraft through and gain insights on how these visits inspire and drive innovation in healthcare.

    • Maria Dorthea Skov
      Maria Dorthea Skov
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Innovation
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