£600,000 total funding available from the Health Foundation and NHSI, with up to £30,000 for each project
Exchange
Q Exchange is Q’s £600,000 funding programme, funded by the Health Foundation and NHS Improvement. The programme offers Q members the chance to develop project ideas and submit bids for up to £30,000 of funding.
Applicants refined and developed their ideas with the help of the Q community through a collaborative online process.
This year we sought project ideas on two themes:
- Building improvement capability across boundaries
- Understanding alternatives to traditional outpatient appointments
The votes have been counted and verified and the winners have been announced.
30 teams with collaboratively developed ideas, shortlisted for the Q community online vote
Q community members will vote online to decide which projects will receive funding
The Big Idea
Q Exchange aims to activate the knowledge of improvement experts across the UK; to create links between those leading work and those who can help champion, support, adopt these ideas; and to boost ideas that have the best potential to generate value for the health and care system.
Collective wisdom
Involve people who understand improvement to develop and select projects. Support all involved to learn from evidence, emerging ideas, and each other
Community
Create links between those leading work and others who champion, support, help adopt it
Impact
Boost ideas judged to have the best potential to generate insight and value for patients, staff, and the health and care system
The Timeline
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Idea generation
Upload your Q Exchange idea from 10 June 2019 and start to develop your idea with the support of the Q community
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Refine your idea
Convert your idea into a proposal on the website by 12.00 on Monday 29 July 2019 for it to be considered by the shortlisting panels
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Shortlisting
Shortlisting panels will assess proposals and select up to 30 projects to go forward to the vote. Shortlisted projects will be announced mid-September 2019
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Community vote
Q members will vote online to decide which projects will receive funding. Winners will be announced live at the UK-wide Q community event on 13 November 2019
Browse Exchange ideas
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Deborah Renwick liked Psychology 4 Improvement 3 days, 21 hours ago
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commented on Community of Practice: Human Factors (HF) & Quality Improvement (QI) 6 days, 14 hours ago
I've been trying everything and unfortunately they won't work. I tried posting a playlist in my wordpress in the 'Pages' section but the playlist won't show. Can someone please help with this?. 
Lisa Griffin commented on Psychology 4 Improvement 1 week ago
Great!
Samuel Thornton commented on Psychology 4 Improvement 1 week ago
WATCH THIS SPACE - Details of the first 'P4I Community of Practice - get together' to plan our next steps will be provided soon!- Dear Jem Sadly can't make the event on 13 Feb but would be keen to hear how that goes and how we can be involved. Jat (Royal Marsden)
Rachel Trask edited the idea called Psychology 4 Improvement 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Hi all, In case you haven't seen it, the January QI Evidence Update is now available. The pdf version is here: tiny.cc/QIJan20 An editable version is available on the Fab Website which you are welcome to edit and make your own (for guidance, see the end of p2). The link is here: http://tiny.cc/fabjan20 Please do share generously with your teams. Many thanks for your ongoing support.
Betty-Sue Smith edited the idea called Co-producing solutions to the outpatient challenge with patients 3 weeks, 2 days ago
