Opinion pieces
Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.
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Integrated strategies to mobilise change
13 December 2024 9 minute readThe ambition of the 10 Year Health Plan will need to integrate different approaches to change. Q’s Managing Director, Penny Pereira, sets out what is needed to support this.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement capability
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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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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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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Lessons in hiking: the ups and downs of making change
19 June 2024 5 minute readQ member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.
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Guddi Singh
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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Improvement skills needed: turning election pledges into implemented plans
10 June 2024 3 minute readQ Managing Director Penny Pereira explores what improvement approaches and expertise will be needed for the health and care sector under the new government.
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Penny Pereira
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Health sector challenges
- Productivity
- Improvement and innovation
- Innovation
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
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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