Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Q’s direction and the path ahead
10 October 2025 6 minute readQ’s Managing Director Penny Pereira on what informed our future plans, what lies ahead and how you can be involved.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
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What burnout taught me
16 June 2025 5 minute readGuddi Singh reflects on what burn out taught her about leadership, impact and the cost of doing things differently.
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Guddi Singh
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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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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Three keys to advanced QI training success
4 April 2024 4 minute readQ member Caitlin Bateman reflects on the learning from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston’s QI Gold programme.
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Caitlin Bateman
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Worldviews, logic and wicked problems: my changing approach to improvement
1 December 2023 4 minute readIn 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
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Innovation
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Organisational development
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Open Space: conversations to progress your work in challenging times
13 September 2022 3 minute readQ’s in-person events will create space for you to connect with collaborators and lead the change you want to see.
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Jen Morgan
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Networking
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Organisational development
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Human factors: designing systems for safety, quality and efficiency
23 May 2022 4 minute readLoretta Jenkins explains how Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) is applying human factors to improve safety, quality and efficiency in health care settings
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Loretta Jenkins
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Taking a psychologically informed approach to quality improvement
16 December 2021 2 minute readRead about how pscychology is being deployed as a quality improvement tool.
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Rachel Trask -
Benna Waites
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Addressing the inequality and environmental impact of continuing professional development
8 October 2021 5 minute readRead about a proposal for making suitable and sustainable professional development opportunities more widely available in and health and care.
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Richard Hixson
Topics- Leadership and management
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Understanding Psychology of Change
10 June 2021 3 minute readRead about the Psychology for Improvememnt (P4I) approach and watch a recording of a session with Kate Hilton.
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Samuel Thornton
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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