Blog archive

Q member, Emma Vaux shares the latest on the Q Exchange 2019 project supporting patients with kidney disease to self-manage their condition.

Q Initiative Director, Penny Pereira, reflects on the role that improvement can play in charting a realistic path for recovery that puts people – both those receiving and delivering care – at the centre.

Each month we'll be introducing you to a new Q member – this month Vanda Carter tells us about how her passion for research impacted her QI journey and what she hopes to learn from Q community members.

Evelyn Prodger, Head of Community Services at Martlets Hospice, shares her QI journey and invites you to join the Community Hospitals Special Interest Group.

Following the publication of our latest report examining the role of improvement during the response to COVID-19, Matthew Hill shares three lessons we heard from the Q community.

Sabrina Das and Amy Cruickshank, share their learnings in co-design for the Antenatal Big Room at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Q member, Maxine Power explores how the collective will to protect one another may have influenced the pace of innovation and the adoption of safety checks in the ambulance service during COVID-19.

Q members, James Mountford and Dominique Allwood discuss what can be learnt from their work to set up a learning system at pace at the London Nightingale Hospital at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Q member, Gill Smith shares learning from NHSCT's application of the SEIPS Model during the pandemic and the importance of human-centred design in a crisis.

Tarnia Mason shares what we heard during a discussion on racial inequality and improvement at Q’s community event, and what steps we can all consider to address this.