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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
  • Q member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.

    • Joanna Kitchen
      Joanna Kitchen
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred 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
  • 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
  • Q managing director Penny Pereira in conversation with Dr Amar Shah on his new role as National Clinical Director for Improvement.

    • Amar Shah
      Amar Shah
    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Developing principles for working across local systems

    4 October 2023 
    3 minute read 

    Find out more about our five principles for working across local systems to develop shared improvement approaches.

    • Matt Hill
      Matt Hill
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Workforce and people
  • Penny Pereira talks to Jim Mackey, NHS England’s National Director of Elective Recovery, about NHS successes and challenges in treatment delays – and how the improvement community can contribute.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Penny Pereira, Q’s Managing Director, considers the new approach, its potential impact and what it means for members and others working to improve health and care in England and beyond.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Workforce and people
  • Following a panel event on Quality Management Systems, we have been talking about ways of introducing QMS into a health care setting. Mirek Skrypak shares an approach that he has developed.

    • Mirek Skrypak
      Mirek Skrypak
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
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