Opinion pieces

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.

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  Spela Godec
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  Katie Clarke-Day

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.

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  Lawrence Mudford

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.

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  Ruth Coustick-Deal

Q member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.

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  Joanna Kitchen

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

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  Lesley Goodburn

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.

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  Carol Dale

Learn how organisations collaborating to reduce delays are approaching improvement in these reflections from our Q Lab workshop.

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  Sarah Rae

Helen Lee at NHS England’s Experience of Care co-production programme tells us about some work her team has been doing to put co-production at the centre of quality improvement.

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  Helen Lee

More than ever as health care practitioners, we needs ways of capturing and making sense of experiences we’ve been through so we can use them to improve not only patient care, but our own wellbeing.

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  Margaret Codd