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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
  • Reawakening Q’s coaching for improvement group

    Case study
    29 April 2025 
    4 minute read 

    Using a high-impact engagement programme approach with a focus on member experience, this Q team has reinvigorated Q’s Coaching Improvement group

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • 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
  • 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 to measure and improve engagement with staff in major change

    Toolkit
    17 October 2023 
    2 minute read 

    A toolkit for engaging staff well in change including a guide and flexible tools to measure engagement.

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Management systems
    Downloads
  • Quality Management Systems webinar series

    Guide
    20 June 2023 
    3 minute read 

    Watch the recordings from our two sets of webinars exploring Quality Management Systems (QMS) in health and care.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
  • Learning systems

    Toolkit
    22 February 2022 
    2 minute read 

    An 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
  • Quality improvement made simple

    Guide
    23 April 2021 
    2 minute read 

    A guide for those thinking about how to re-design or develop new processes, pathways and services.

    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement culture
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
  • Liberating Structures

    Guide
    14 July 2020 
    2 minute read 

    33+ simple techniques for facilitating meetings, workshops and conversations.

    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Flow
    • Networking
    • Leadership and management
    • Management systems
    • Workforce and people
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