Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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How stakeholder and journey mapping can help you understand complex challenges
24 October 2024 6 minute readRead about how Q Labs explore complexity and challenges in health care at system level using stakeholder and journey mapping.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- 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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Improving patient communication and care with technology
24 September 2024 10 minute readA Q Exchange project looks at using innovative technology as part of an apporoach to reduce falls and pressure ulcers in elderly patients.
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Jonathan Yazbek
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Health and prevention
- Long-term conditions
- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Patient safety
- Services
- Mental health
- Older people’s care
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Creating a QI movement: how QI Week began
10 September 2024 3 minute readQ member Anita DeHavilland tells the story of creating QI Week running from 9 to 13 September 2024, and encourages you to get involved.
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Anita DeHavilland
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement culture
- Networking
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Professional advocates creating recovery space for nurses and midwives
3 June 2024 4 minute readProfessional Advocacy is a network of nursing and midwifery professionals helping this vital workforce to recover and grow.
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Martin Hogan
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Evaluating QI capacity building
28 May 2024 2 minute readRead an evaluation based on the Kirkpatrick model about QI capacity building using workforce collaboration and leadership and management.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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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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Keeping scepticism alive in health care improvement
28 March 2024 6 minute readExplore the role that philosophy can play in upholding an active culture of scepticism in health care improvement.
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Polly Mitchell
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Patient and public involvement
- Leadership and management
- Policy and regulation
- Workforce and people
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Quality improvement and health inequalities
15 January 2024 4 minute readLook at how QI can impact health inequalities and learn about Queen Mary University of London research to explore the issue.
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Lucy Johnson
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Improving productivity: resources from Q
9 January 2024 7 minute readResources from Q to give you inspiration and help bring people with you when tackling health and care improvement in a system under pressure.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Productivity
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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