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

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  • Q member Guddi Singh on what led her to create a new BBC Radio 4 series asking the questions the health service avoids – and what the answers mean for improvement.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Health and prevention
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • Children and young people
    • Community services
  • The key themes that emerged from Q members’ reflections on the 10-year plan.

    • Q Team
    • Andrea Gibbons
      Andrea Gibbons
    • Emma Snow
    • Clifford Mitchell
      Clifford Mitchell
    • Anita Rowe
    • Domenica Gilroy
      Domenica Gilroy
    • Levette Lamb
      Levette Lamb
    • Miles Sibley
      Miles Sibley
    • Chris Pavlakis
    • Felicity Hamer
    • Anna Burhouse
      Anna Burhouse
    • Dr Orla Healy
    • Rammya Mathew
      Rammya Mathew
    • David Seamark
      David Seamark
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • Q members from across the UK and Ireland share their thoughts on the plan and its implementation, with insights from their experiences.

    • Clifford Mitchell
      Clifford Mitchell
    • Anita Rowe
    • Domenica Gilroy
      Domenica Gilroy
    • Levette Lamb
      Levette Lamb
    • Dr Orla Healy
    • Felicity Hamer
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • In this series, Q members from across England share their thoughts on what’s in the plan, what’s missing and what’s required for its implementation.

    • Andrea Gibbons
      Andrea Gibbons
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • How to bring an equitable approach to reducing waiting times

    25 September 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Katie and Spela explore what the Q Lab teams learned about ensuring equity while reducing appointment waiting times and share some top tips for ensuring equitable access to services.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    • Katie Clarke-Day
      Katie Clarke-Day
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • My Improvement Journey: Lawrence Mudford

    22 August 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Lawrence Mudford shares his improvement journey, from dentistry to perioperative care, and invites you to join an upcoming series of webinars on prehabilitation and rehabilitation.

    • Lawrence Mudford
      Lawrence Mudford
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • How senior leaders can support patients to wait well

    22 July 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Experts from across health care offer practical actions to design pathways that reduce waiting lists, support patients to wait well and put equity first throughout.

    • Ruth Coustick-Deal
      Ruth Coustick-Deal
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • Q member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.

    • Joanna Kitchen
      Joanna Kitchen
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • From furniture logistics to person-centred care

    4 July 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Q member Lesley Goodburn shares how storytelling empowers co-produced, continuous improvement in person-centred care.

    • Lesley Goodburn
      Lesley Goodburn
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Improvement culture
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • End of life care
  • Discover how a student nurse in a care home developed a hospital passport so that patients with dementia were better able to let hospital carers know how to look after their needs.

    • Carol Dale
      Carol Dale
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Co-production
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Quality of care
    • Health equity
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
    • Services
    • End of life care
    • Older people’s care
    • Social care
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