Opinion pieces

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
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  Penny Pereira
• Nicola Burgess

Penny Pereira on the action needed to realise the potential of improvement methods at scale.

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  Penny Pereira

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.

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  Anindita Ghosh

Q member Aicha Bouraoui reflects on how clarity and integrity can keep health care collaborations on track.

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  Aicha Bouraoui
• Dr Cleo White

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.

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  Penny Pereira

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

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  Spela Godec

The Q team share the improvement themes from this year’s Forum, including looking at failure, rule-breaking and adding rigour to QI.

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  Penny Pereira
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  Libby Keck
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  Matt Hill
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  Spela Godec

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

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  Caitlin Bateman

Q managing director Penny Pereira in conversation with Dr Amar Shah on his new role as National Clinical Director for Improvement.

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  Amar Shah
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  Penny Pereira

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.

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  Andrew Ware