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Toolkits, guides, case studies and other quality improvement resources shared by Q members and the Q team.

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  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has empowered frontline staff to improve patient safety with a dashboard that brings safety metrics into one place.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
  • Partnering with patients on ways to improve care before treatment

    Case study
    23 April 2025 
    5 minute read 

    The first national forum for perioperative and prehabilitation care is looking at ways to better support patients before, during and following their treatment.

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Health and prevention
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Systems change
    • Quality of care
    • Patient experience
    • Person-centred care
  • Creative approaches to problem solving

    Toolkit
    5 September 2024 
    2 minute read 

    Q’s toolkit of 25 tried-and-tested methods for creative collaboration and problem-solving.

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement capability
    • Process improvement
    • Systems change
    Downloads
  • Developing system-wide improvement approaches

    Framework
    29 August 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Five simple principles for working across local systems to develop shared improvement approaches for health and care.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Workforce and people
    Downloads
  • Improving across health and care systems

    Framework
    29 August 2024 
    10 minute read 

    Plan and deliver large-scale health and care improvements across systems with this detailed framework developed in collaboration with sector leaders and aligned with NHS IMPACT.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Flow
    • Improvement culture
    • Process improvement
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    Downloads
  • Quality Management Systems: resources to help you get started

    Guide
    22 July 2024 
    11 minute read 

    Draw learning and inspiration from different frameworks, tools and methods that others have used.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Innovation
    • Process improvement
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Organisational development
    • Quality of care
    • Clinical effectiveness
    • Patient experience
    • Patient safety
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • How improvement can help during times of pressure

    Toolkit
    9 December 2022 
    6 minute read 

    Discover resources that show how improvement approaches can help, even during times of high NHS demand and workforce pressures.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Process improvement
    • Systems change
  • Leading successful partnerships

    Guide
    28 April 2022 
    2 minute read 

    Principles and best practice to support health and care leaders to improve their teams’ relationships and set up effective partnerships.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Innovation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    Downloads
  • Do remote consultations reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

    Guide
    9 February 2022 
    4 minute read 

    Q member Inge Steinbach from the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare introduces a tool for calculating their carbon footprint.

    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Analytics and data
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
  • Futures and Foresight

    Guide
    11 May 2021 
    2 minute read 

    The following guide provides an overview of some of the tools and models from futures and foresight.

    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Measurement for improvement
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Systems change
    Downloads
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