Blog archive

Caroline Poole reflects on a recent Q Visit to Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and how the AHP community can play a part in furthering sustainability efforts, especially in unprecedented circumstances.

Coronavirus is creating unprecedented demands on the health system and impacting on the focus of improvement efforts, and therefore Q members, across the UK and Ireland. This blog explores how Q might learn and share as we find ways to bring our improvement energy and expertise to a rapidly changing context.

Q member, Maria Kordowicz shares learning from ethnographic evaluation research, giving an unprecedented insight into the large scale imaging improvement programme.

Annabelle Burns discusses her visit to Buurtzorg and how it left her inspired and excited to embed new ways of working.

Q member Jane Pightling explores the importance of Safety-II in tackling challenges in a complex world.

Each month we'll be introducing you to a new Q member – this month we hear from Sketchnote enthusiast, Saskie Dorman, who believes that together we can create public services that are bespoke by default.

Katja Behrendt shares her belief that mindfulness can change organisations and encourages community members to get involved with the new Mindfulness in Quality Improvement group.

Karla Rimaitis invites Q members based in the North West Coast region to apply for funding to help grow and support their quality improvement work.

Q member, Steve Sharples explores how patients can be involved from their practice all the way to working with NHS England.

After a Q Visit, Freddie Johansson reflects on how HIS' approach to Quality Management Systems can be utilised at an organisational level.