Blog archive

Q member, Louise Wilson, explores how Learning Communities can help tackle the complexities of individual health care needs, and encourages the Q community to download the new handbook and give it a go.

Ahead of their upcoming event in December, Nikki Davey of Clinical Human Factors Group shares helpful resources they've developed over the years.

Continuing Professional Development is essential for all Healthcare Professionals to revalidate, yet finding relevant, accessible, good-value CPD in time to secure leave is often a challenge. Richard Hixson shares his solution to the issue.

As we get ready to open voting for Q Exchange on Monday 7 October, Initiative Director, Penny Pereira, gives us the lowdown on how the voting will work, and how you can help shape the final projects.

Professor Tom Ling of Q's independent evaluators RAND Europe encourages Q members to participate in the annual evaluation survey.

Q's Programme Director, Penny Pereira shares reflections from the Q Exchange shortlisting panels.

Following a recent Q visit to Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Q member Vincent Baxter discusses how flow coaching can be a powerful tool for engaging frontline staff in the quality improvement process.

The presence of fear greatly reduces the ability to learn; teams who feel psychologically safe are more able to prevent errors or even catastrophes from occurring. Find out what Juliette Kumar learned from Chernobyl, Prof Amy Edmonson and Deming in this blog about Psychological Safety.

Motivation and how to use it is a complex science, motivating yourself is hard, motivating others is even harder. When trying to make improvements in the NHS we need to think carefully about how we motivate our staff to bring about change and improve patient outcomes.