Opinion pieces
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 readThe 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
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Continuous improvement and management capacity in general practice
2 October 2024 5 minute readRead about the views of leaders in general practice about the role of QI in their work amidst pressures in the sector.
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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
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Rethinking waiting lists: insights from Community Appointment Days
10 July 2024 3 minute readQ member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.
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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
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Lessons in hiking: the ups and downs of making change
19 June 2024 5 minute readQ member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.
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Guddi Singh
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Improvement skills needed: turning election pledges into implemented plans
10 June 2024 3 minute readQ Managing Director Penny Pereira explores what improvement approaches and expertise will be needed for the health and care sector under the new government.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Productivity
- Improvement and innovation
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Bringing a sense of shared purpose to improvement at a national scale
20 February 2024 10 minute readQ 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
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Developing principles for working across local systems
4 October 2023 3 minute readFind out more about our five principles for working across local systems to develop shared improvement approaches.
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Matt Hill
Topics- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Workforce and people
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In conversation with Sir Jim Mackey: improvement and reducing waits in elective care
4 May 2023 6 minute readPenny 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.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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NHS Improvement: how can our leaders and workforce come together to make the most of the new approach?
21 April 2023 6 minute readPenny 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.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Workforce and people
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Back to basics: a simpler way of understanding QMS for NHS organisations
21 March 2023 7 minute readFollowing 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.
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Mirek Skrypak
Topics- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Management systems
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