Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Journalism with a stethoscope: why listening matters for facing health’s wicked problems
23 September 2025 5 minute readQ 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.
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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
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: key themes
12 August 2025 6 minute readThe key themes that emerged from Q members’ reflections on the 10-year plan.
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Q Team
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Emma Snow
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Clifford Mitchell -
Anita Rowe
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Chris Pavlakis
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Felicity Hamer
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Anna Burhouse -
Dr Orla Healy
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Rammya Mathew -
David Seamark
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland
23 July 2025 7 minute readQ members from across the UK and Ireland share their thoughts on the plan and its implementation, with insights from their experiences.
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Clifford Mitchell -
Anita Rowe
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Domenica Gilroy -
Levette Lamb -
Dr Orla Healy
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Felicity Hamer
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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Q members reflect on the NHS 10-Year Health Plan for England: Andrea Gibbons
21 July 2025 3 minute readIn 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.
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Andrea Gibbons
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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How to bring an equitable approach to reducing waiting times
25 September 2024 6 minute readKatie 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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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
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My Improvement Journey: Lawrence Mudford
22 August 2024 5 minute readLawrence 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
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Quality of care
- Person-centred care
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How senior leaders can support patients to wait well
22 July 2024 5 minute readExperts 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
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Equity, diversity and inclusion
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
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Rethinking waiting lists: insights from Community Appointment Days
10 July 2024 3 minute readQ member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.
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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
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From furniture logistics to person-centred care
4 July 2024 3 minute readQ member Lesley Goodburn shares how storytelling empowers co-produced, continuous improvement in person-centred care.
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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
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Creating a hospital passport for patients with dementia
10 May 2024 5 minute readDiscover 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
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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