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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’s direction and the path ahead

    10 October 2025 
    6 minute read 

    Q’s Managing Director Penny Pereira on what informed our future plans, what lies ahead and how you can be involved.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
  • With fieldwork for the 2025 NHS staff survey set to begin, we reflect on the results of the 2024 survey and what we can learn about staff engagement – and its consequences for improvement.

    • Bryan Jones
    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    • Nicola Burgess
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Drawing on our work on QMS and a roundtable we convened with NHS England, we offer recommendations for how the quality strategy can best meet the needs of the health sector.

    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    • Matt Hill
      Matt Hill
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • AI and automation
    • Analytics and data
    • Health sector challenges
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
  • Penny Pereira on the action needed to realise the potential of improvement methods at scale.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Process improvement
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • What burnout taught me

    16 June 2025 
    5 minute read 

    Guddi Singh reflects on what burn out taught her about leadership, impact and the cost of doing things differently.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Q member Aicha Bouraoui reflects on how clarity and integrity can keep health care collaborations on track.

    • Aicha Bouraoui
      Aicha Bouraoui
    • Dr Cleo White
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
  • Integrated strategies to mobilise change

    13 December 2024 
    9 minute read 

    The 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.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Read 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
  • Read about the views of leaders in general practice about the role of QI in their work amidst pressures in the sector.

    • Rammya Mathew
      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
  • Improving patient communication and care with technology

    24 September 2024 
    9 minute read 

    A Q Exchange project looks at using innovative technology as part of an apporoach to reduce falls and pressure ulcers in elderly patients.

    • Jonathan Yazbek
      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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