We share the theme for the next round of Q Exchange, our participatory funding programme with grants of up to £40k available, opening for ideas on 15 February!

Welcome to the third article in our series on the Q Exchange programme. Here we focus on a collaborative project with a group of professional engineers that looked closely at how people, systems, design, and risk can work together in an integrated and well-ordered way to improve health care.

As part of the Q Exchange funding programme, Q Members Rachel Trask and Benna Waites have been involved in a project looking at psychology and quality improvement. Here they share their discoveries, insights, and challenges, along with a set of co-produced knowledge and resources about the human aspect of quality improvement.

Faye Goldman, Q’s Head of Communications, shares an update on the team’s work to increase our confidence to improve equity, diversity and inclusion.

Henry Cann and Jo Scott share what we heard from members as part of our insight project to explore how improvers are addressing backlogs and waiting times for care.

We know that great improvement work in general practice is happening across the country. Dr Rammya Mathew, GP Convenor of Q's Primary Care Special Interest Group, considers some of the ways we can tap into these.

An update on our process of co-creating the future of participation at Q, and what’s coming next.

Balancing urgent and planned care, particularly when running clinics with patient appointments booked in advance, is one of the more difficult challenges for health care services. Is there an approach that enables health care providers to respond to both longer term and urgent demand?

Could you help steer Q’s strategy and development? Penny Pereira, Q Initiative Director, shares how our governance is evolving and how members can get involved.