Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Five lessons for meaningful external involvement in improvement work
20 November 2024 6 minute readExplore what we learned about collaboratively bringing in external perspectives to the Q Lab improvement projects, and our suggestions for how to bring these perspectives into your improvement work.
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Spela Godec
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
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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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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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Spela Godec
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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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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Q’s new co-designed website launches this autumn
27 August 2024 3 minute readDigital Manager Betty-Sue Smith highlights how members’ insights have been central to building Q’s new website.
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Betty-Sue Smith
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
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Understanding and increasing our impact: an update on the evaluation of Q
23 August 2024 3 minute readMatthew Hill, Head of Insight, Evaluation and Research, gives an update on the independent evaluation of Q.
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Matthew Hill
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement research and evaluation
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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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Co-designing the Systems Quality Improvement Practitioner Programme
15 August 2024 4 minute readSid Beech shares his experience of kickstarting the Q Exchange project, Systems QI Practitioner Programme, with a co-design session to agree the scope, audience and draft topic outline.
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Sid Beech
Topics- Digital and data
- Measurement for improvement
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Process improvement
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