Blog archive

Zarina Siganporia, Q’s Innovation and Collaboration Manager, shares an update on the second Q Lab UK workshop exploring how to build staff and patient trust and confidence in tech-enabled remote monitoring.

What if we set up a quality framework with patients and staff that used positive feedback to improve morale and model the social behaviours we want to reinforce in care settings? University Hospital Plymouth (UHP) has been trialling an approach to do just that.

Improvement Advisor for UCLPartners, Alexandra Hellyer reflects on how a QI approach could have helped her to deal with the uncertainty of suffering from Long COVID.

What role can improvement play in supporting NHS productivity? Anita Mehay, Improvement Fellow at the Health Foundation, explores what is needed to maximise productivity gains in health care.

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.