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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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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Quality Management Systems: resources to help you get started
Guide22 July 2024 11 minute readDraw learning and inspiration from different frameworks, tools and methods that others have used.
Topics- Improvement and innovation
- Complexity
- Improvement capability
- 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
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How to measure and improve your engagement with staff in major change
Toolkit17 October 2023 2 minute readA guide to engaging staff well in change and flexible tools to measure engagement.
Topics- Health sector challenges
- Productivity
- Leadership and management
- Leadership
- Management systems
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Evaluation toolSurvey of staff toolExcel 82.3 KB
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Evaluation toolPlanning and reflection toolExcel 83.3 KB
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Quality Management Systems webinar series
Guide20 June 2023 3 minute readWatch the recordings from our two sets of webinar series 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
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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