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

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

Read 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

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

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  Joanna Kitchen

Q member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.

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  Guddi Singh

Q 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

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

Andrew Ware takes a global view in this piece about looking outward for system improvement. Part one of a two-part series.

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  Andrew Ware

Dr Amar Shah explains the role Q is playing in today’s health and care sector and why people should join.

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  Amar Shah