Blog archive

Q's Programme Director, Penny Pereira shares reflections from the Q Exchange shortlisting panels.

Following a recent Q visit to Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Q member Vincent Baxter discusses how flow coaching can be a powerful tool for engaging frontline staff in the quality improvement process.

The presence of fear greatly reduces the ability to learn; teams who feel psychologically safe are more able to prevent errors or even catastrophes from occurring. Find out what Juliette Kumar learned from Chernobyl, Prof Amy Edmonson and Deming in this blog about Psychological Safety.

Motivation and how to use it is a complex science, motivating yourself is hard, motivating others is even harder. When trying to make improvements in the NHS we need to think carefully about how we motivate our staff to bring about change and improve patient outcomes.

Each month we'll be introducing you to a new Q member – this month we hear from Julia Gray, who's looking forward to making new connections and drawing on the wealth of expertise in the Q community.

Rachel Pilling shares the story behind Joy in Work’s social movement, 15s30m, and encourages other Q members to think about how they can use this approach in their own work.

Patient Safety Director Cheryl Crocker writes about the launch of the AHSN Network's plan to support the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and how essential Q members are to making the plan a success.

With autumn approaching, our focus on the UK-wide Q community event is intensifying.

Last year, we were one of the recipients of the Q Exchange funding – we were funded to co-design a training module to support patients, families and communities get involved in QI, and work with our teams on projects.

Darren Wright sheds light on the importance of considering the biases in data when undertaking quality improvement work.