Get Involved
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Meet the community
Search through our directory of Q members. You can search by name, areas of interest, keywords and location.
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Events
National, regional and local events for the whole community or particular areas of interest. Includes events open to those who haven't joined Q yet.
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Add an event
Members can add improvement-related events to Q's national calendar.
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Q Lab
Emerging from Q, the Q Lab is bringing people together from across the UK to work and make progress on complex challenges facing health and care.
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Q visits
A regular programme of visits to organisations doing interesting work, within and outside of the health and care sector. Includes open days, immersive visits, skill-based workshops and study days.
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Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
All initiated and self-organised by members, find out more about the SIGs running as part of Q - a great way for people to share experiences, collaborate on challenges and find inspiration.
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QI Connect Webex series
Q has partnered with Healthcare Improvement Scotland to support their QI Connect monthly Webex series. These are free to access to anyone.
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Subscriptions
Members have free and easy access to resources to help further develop their knowledge of improvement and in turn help develop others.
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Randomised Coffee Trials
We are running Randomised Coffee Trials (RCTs) with the Q community and inviting all members to join.
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Q connectors
We are creating a network of ‘Q Connectors’ – for members who love connecting people and ideas across boundaries.
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Talks
View the list of all the improvement-related topics members are offering to give talks on - either face-to-face or online.
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Write a blog or news story
Members can publish their own blog or news story straight onto the website.
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Creative Approaches to Problem Solving (CAPs)
These CAPs cards can be used by anyone! They provide different ways of working through and exploring problems and potential solutions.
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Reading room
Links and resources to download - lots of useful stuff for anyone interested in improving the quality of health and care.
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Q in your area
Find out who your local lead for Q is and which organisation is helping to run activities and opportunities in your area.
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Communicating your involvement in Q
Some quick guidelines with messages to help members talk about Q. Also includes logo and template PowerPoint slides
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Live streaming and webinar tools
Together with members we have created a list of webinar and liver streaming tools that can be used to give improvement talks online.