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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 read 

    Q’s Managing Director Penny Pereira on what informed our future plans, what lies ahead and how you can be involved.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
  • What burnout taught me

    16 June 2025 
    5 minute read 

    Guddi Singh reflects on what burn out taught her about leadership, impact and the cost of doing things differently.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • 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
  • Three keys to advanced QI training success

    4 April 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Q member Caitlin Bateman reflects on the learning from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston’s QI Gold programme.

    • Caitlin Bateman
      Caitlin Bateman
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • 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.

    • Andrew Ware
      Andrew Ware
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Organisational development
  • Q’s in-person events will create space for you to connect with collaborators and lead the change you want to see.

    • Jen  Morgan
      Jen Morgan
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Networking
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Organisational development
  • Loretta Jenkins explains how Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) is applying human factors to improve safety, quality and efficiency in health care settings

    • Loretta Jenkins
      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
  • Read about how pscychology is being deployed as a quality improvement tool.

    • Rachel Trask
      Rachel Trask
    • Benna Waites
      Benna Waites
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Read about a proposal for making suitable and sustainable professional development opportunities more widely available in and health and care.

    • Richard Hixson
      Richard Hixson
    Topics
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Understanding Psychology of Change

    10 June 2021 
    3 minute read 

    Read about the Psychology for Improvememnt (P4I) approach and watch a recording of a session with Kate Hilton.

    • Samuel Thornton
      Samuel Thornton
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
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