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

Each month we'll be introducing you to a new Q member – this month Caitlin Argument, Information Analyst at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Karen Machin, a freelance trainer and researcher with a focus on mental health peer support, tell us about why they joined Q.

Susy Cook, Q member and Associate Dean at Teeside University, talks about how a local collective of Qs from the university and South Tees, North Tees and Hartlepool Trusts is coming together not only to work on projects but to show the benefit of those projects.

Now in its fifth year, QI Connect's scope and audience has grown to encompass over 750 organisations and 4,000 professionals in quality improvement. Jennifer Graham from Healthcare Improvement Scotland shares her passion for the series in this update.

Ideas, learning and successes of an unconference, held with the Q community in Wessex