Blog archive

This blog is part of a series of reflections by the Re-imagining Healthcare SIG. Here Matthew Bell shares his thoughts about the first of six 'tensions' that surfaced during his efforts to create organisational change.

Liz Twelves, Q member and Management Consultant at Twello, shares what's being learnt through Q in the North-West coast

This blog is the start of a series of reflections from the Reimagining Health and Care SIG. In this first installment Matthew Bell candidly shares the challenges of moving to a networked organisational structure and some hard personal lessons learned.

Following her talk at the Q community London welcome event earlier this year, and in the lead up to TEDxNHS 2018 on 21 August, Sheena Visram reflects on her experiences choreographing TEDxNHS 2017 in the second of her two-part blog on building partnerships and socialising healthcare.

The list of the final 25 projects in the running for the Q Exchange is now live! With an impressive 139 proposals put forward, shortlisting was a challenging task. Here, panel chairs Penny Pereria and Sarah Henderson share insights from the process.

On the 25 May 2018, a group of health professionals eager to improve care for children and young people (CYP) across the UK came together at the Health Foundation offices. It was a brilliant day, advertised through the Q community, that united nurses, doctors, policy leads and hospital managers.

The Q project team is busy gearing up for this year's event, taking place in September at the NEC in Birmingham. Here we share some of the highlights and learnings from last year's event that have helped shape the programme for this year, along with a preview of what to expect.

Each year around 1,600 papers are submitted to BMJ Quality & Safety. Roughly just 10% of the papers submitted will make it to print. Here Editor-in-Chief for the journal, Dr. Kaveh Shojania, shares some valuable insights with the Q team into what makes a publishable project.

Helen Crisp, Editor for the online open access quality improvement journal, BMJ Open Quality, is looking for Q members to act as expert peer reviewers