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Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.

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  • Drawing on our work on QMS and a roundtable we convened with NHS England, we offer recommendations for how the quality strategy can best meet the needs of the health sector.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    • Matt Hill
      Matt Hill
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • AI and automation
    • Analytics and data
    • Health sector challenges
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Meaning of Quality and the Juran Trilogy

    26 January 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Following on from our webinar and blog on Designing a Quality Management System for the NHS, Dr Tom Rose takes a closer look at the Juran Trilogy, its definition of quality and how it can be applied.

    • Thomas Rose
      Thomas Rose
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • Turning Safety-II thinking into action

    17 January 2023 
    6 minute read 

    Critics of Safety-II point to a lack of evidence of its ability to fulfil its promise. Are they right?

    • Simon Gill
      Simon Gill
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
  • Designing a Quality Management System for the NHS

    2 December 2022 
    5 minute read 

    Discover how NHS quality improvement fits into a QMS and how it can be implemented in an NHS trust.

    • Thomas Rose
      Thomas Rose
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • A Lean approach to providing high quality care on demand

    21 October 2021 
    4 minute read 

    Read about using Lean principles to manage patient flow at a GP surgery handling longer term and urgent demand

    • Christopher Weatherburn
      Christopher Weatherburn
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Measurement for improvement
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Productivity
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • The case for building a Quality Management System

    14 January 2020 
    6 minute read 

    Fredrik Johansson joined a Q Visit to Health Improvement Scotland (HIS) to learn about their work in developing a national quality management system and how this could help deliver high-quality care.

    • Freddie Johansson
      Freddie Johansson
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement capability
    • Process improvement
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
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