Blog archive

Aidan Fowler, National Director of Patient Safety, NHS Improvement, tells us about their proposals for a new national patient safety strategy to support the NHS to be the safest healthcare system in the world and invites Q members to have their say.

Each month we'll be introducing you to a new Q member – this month Helen Sharma, Professional Adviser at Chartered Society of Physiotherapy tells us how she's applied learning from Q events in her day job.

Penny Pereira introduces our plans for the future of Q, explains how we are building on what members have told us and invites members to get involved in helping us shape the future.

Co-designing the use of NHS Near Me at home was one of the ideas to win Q Exchange funding in Autumn 2018. In this blog, the team explain what they will be doing over the next few months and what's happened so far

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?