Blog archive

Yitka Graham, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Sunderland, shares her improvement journey and invites people to join the Q special interest group on Developing Research Capacity in Quality Improvement.

Q member Sibylle Erdmann shares her experience as a carer - as heard at the IHI conference - about the challenge of patient involvement and why little 'i' involvement is not enough.

Jo Habben and Melanie Ottewill share the novel Serious Incident training they developed as a part of the Kent Surrey and Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative Serious Incident Community of Practice. It includes a Human Factors approach and experiential Duty of Candour training.

Q members were amongst many at a recent AQuA event looking to learn about the increasingly influential Dutch care model – Buurtzorg – and its gradual emergence in the UK. Buurtzorg has 10,000 staff, no managers and an administrative back-office of only 50. Health Foundation Improvement Fellow Bryan Jones shares his experience of the day.

Listening is crucial to the bottom up, new power rebalancing of the NHS and Q could be central to this.

Mandy Rudczenko shares the inspirations and experiences of her improvement journey and invites people to join Q's 'Co-production' Special Interest Group.