Q Visits
See for yourself how other organisations support change and improvement and take inspiration and learning back to your own work.
Q Visits offer members and non-members opportunities to see improvement projects in action across the UK and Ireland. Immersive sessions, supported by comprehensive pre- and post-event resources, will inspire and enable you to use the learning in your own setting.
What are Q Visits?
Q Visits are online and in-person opportunities to learn, first-hand, about a wide variety of improvement projects at organisations in the health and care sector and beyond.
They are free to attend, and usually CPD certified.
During a Q Visit, you will hear from the people directly involved in improvement and find out how their tools and methodologies work in practice.
You will also have a chance to connect with other members of the community and time to learn and reflect on what you want to take back to your context.
Visits are usually open to non-members as well as Q members.
During the Visit there was talk of ‘contagious commitment to change’ and it was great to share the enthusiasm for improvement from our hosts and the other participants. I still don’t have all the answers but I have lots of new questions and I can’t wait to get started.
Before the event, we will send you a welcome pack. This includes the programme for the Visit, a video welcome from the facilitators, introductions to the hosts, and useful resources to read, watch or listen to beforehand if you wish.
During the Q Visit you will hear directly from the host organisation, their partners and the communities they work with through presentations, demonstrations or question and answer sessions.
All Q Visits are interactive, whether online or in-person, with a mix of whole-group and small-group sessions. Small-group sessions offer an opportunity to hear about others’ work and share your own experiences. We ensure there is also dedicated time for independent reflection.
Afterwards, we will follow up with resources to help you extend your learning. You can also continue the conversation with other attendees by joining the Q Visits group online.
In-person
In-person Visits usually include a tour of the location, a chance to meet team members and watch demonstrations.
Online
We make sure online Visits, via Zoom, are as immersive and interactive as possible.
During moments of interaction in online Visits, particularly in small groups, we ask you to have your camera on if you can. During moments of reflection, you can of course turn off your camera.
Accessibility
We aim to make Q Visits accessible and inclusive and encourage you to let us know about anything you need to ensure you can participate fully.
The following accessibility measures are in place for every Q Visit.
- We make sure in-person Visits are wheelchair accessible.
- We make sure dietary requirements are catered for at in-person Visits.
- We use automated closed captions on Zoom.
- We reimburse expenses incurred to attend for patient and public voice (PPV) Q members, in line with our expenses policy.
If you need other adjustments, please contact us. For instance:
- live speech to text or BSL interpretation
- BSL translation of audio resources we send before or after a Visit.
- large print or easy read resources
- access to a quiet room at in-person Visits.
I will share the stories and lessons from today with my colleagues at work, and the event will inform the way I talk about continuous improvement with NHS trusts widely
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