Blog archive

Each month we'll be introducing you to a new Q member – this month Shane Costigan, clinical pharamcist and Darzi Fellow working at Health Education England tells us why Q is a vital resource for those in clinical roles.

As the year draws to a close, Q lead Penny Pereira shares six key ways the world of improvement appears to be evolving and reflects on what this might mean for Q.

One of Q's member benefits is the ability to publish work for free on BMJ Open Quality. Here Aklak Choudhury share's an insight into his recent experience publishing his work about oxygen prescription and delivery to patients.

In the second part of this recap of the recent workshop examining Development Evaluation, Matthew shares the DE approach to scaling and some of the tools to use it practice.

Developmental Evaluation is a novel and emerging type of evaluation. Q Community Manager Matthew Mezey shares his learning from an inspiring workshop with one of its pioneers, Kate McKegg. Can we grow a whole new cohort of Developmental Evaluators – when it represents such a major paradigm shift?

Q members - the Q Exchange Speed DATAing project needs your feedback to improve the data platform, which we hope will benefit clinical/executive leaders and improvement (QI, audit, clinical) leads at Acute Trusts. We welcome wider feedback from patients and commissioners too!

Jono Broad talks about the success of the first Quality Improvement Partner Panels training day.

Sophie Bulmer reflects on her learning from a recent member event hosted by UCLPartners focusing on Joy in Work.

Member Chris Tiley shares a candid insight into his his initial hopes for Q - and where improvements could be made to provide better opportunities for connection and collaboration across the community.