Resources
Toolkits, guides, case studies and other quality improvement resources shared by Q members and the Q team.
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Putting the power of data to work for patients
Case study12 March 2025 5 minute readA team of researchers and clinicians is helping analysts and decision makers in in the NHS to realise the power of data through statistical process control.
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Measurement for improvement
- Health sector challenges
- Access and waiting times
- Productivity
- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
- Process improvement
- Spread and adoption
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Management systems
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
- Quality of care
- Clinical effectiveness
- Health equity
- Patient safety
- Timeliness and efficiency
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Kidney Essentials: improving patient information through co-design
Case study3 March 2025 6 minute readRoyal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and Cognitant worked with chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients to co-design written and interactive digital information.
Topics- Digital and data
- Analytics and data
- Digital technology
- Improvement and innovation
- Co-production
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Innovation
- Patient and public involvement
- Process improvement
- Spread and adoption
- Systems change
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Patient safety
- Person-centred care
- Services
- Acute care
- Community services
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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
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Complexity
- Improvement culture
- Patient and public involvement
- Spread and adoption
- Systems change
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Organisational development
- Workforce and people
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Improvement Collaborative Handbook
Toolkit16 October 2023 2 minute readYour compass to successfully lead, plan, and implement an improvement collaborative.
Topics- Digital and data
- Measurement for improvement
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Improvement culture
- Improvement research and evaluation
- Process improvement
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Workforce and people
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How-to guide: the Bedside Learning Coordinator role
Guide8 August 2023 2 minute readA range of resources aimed at supporting individuals and organisations in health and care to implement the Bedside Learning Coordinator (BLC) role.
Topics- Health sector challenges
- COVID-19 and recovery
- Improvement and innovation
- Collaboration
- Improvement capability
- Innovation
- Process improvement
- Spread and adoption
- Quality of care
- Patient experience
- Person-centred care
- Services
- Acute care
- Urgent and emergency care
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Learning systems
Toolkit22 February 2022 2 minute readAn online toolkit to support teams and organisations to develop effective learning systems for health and care improvement.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Innovation
- Spread and adoption
- Leadership and management
- Management systems
- Organisational development