Resources
Toolkits, guides, case studies and other quality improvement resources shared by Q members and the Q team.
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Leading Improvement in Health and Care podcast
Case study18 November 2024 7 minute readSharing stories and exploring the challenges of people making changes across systems.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Leadership and management
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Creative Approaches to Problem Solving
Toolkit5 September 2024 1 minute readQ’s toolkit of 25 tried-and-tested methods for creative collaboration and problem-solving.
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Implementing patient initiated follow-up
Case study30 August 2024 5 minute readA phased approach to improve access to services, NHS Surrey Heartlands CCG.
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Improvement and innovation
- Process improvement
- Quality of care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Developing system-wide improvement approaches
Framework29 August 2024 3 minute readFive principles for working across local systems to develop shared improvement approaches
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Improving across health and care systems: a framework
Framework29 August 2024 10 minute readFind out more about our framework, developed to support those creating strategies to improve health and care across systems.
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Using Lean to redesign pathways
Case study29 August 2024 4 minute readThe benefits of applying a Lean improvement methodology to make service changes to improve productivity, clinician capacity and patient experience.
Topics- Digital and data
- Digital technology
- Measurement for improvement
- Health sector challenges
- Integration
- Improvement and innovation
- Improvement research and evaluation
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Local system collaboration to address care backlogs
Case study29 August 2024 6 minute readBirmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System tackled pre-COVID care backlogs by innovating workflows, reducing outpatient referrals via Advice and Guidance, and boosting post-op recovery capacity.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Innovation
- Networking
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Embedding analytics to improve inpatient flow
Case study29 August 2024 4 minute readIntegrating data and analytics in improvement programmes enhances inpatient flow, but cultural and system-level changes are crucial to realising full benefits, as seen in system collaboration.
Topics- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Developing a peer-to-peer coaching service
Case study29 August 2024 4 minute readLearning from co-designing a volunteer peer coaching service to enable more people to safely join the Patient Initiated Follow Up pathway.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Networking
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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Implementing Patient Initiated Follow Up in NHS Surrey
Case study24 August 2024 5 minute readThe short-term benefits of implementing a Patient Initiated Follow Up (PIFU) pathway for prompting services to validate and better understand their patient lists.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Quality of care
- Patient experience