Opinion pieces

Aarthi Ravishankar and Rosanna Hardwick, from Social Finance, share findings on effective early intervention and prevention for children and young people presenting in mental health crisis.

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  Rosanna Hardwick
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  Aarthi Ravishankar

Sarindi Aryasinghe reflects on how we can do our bit to turn commitments to equity into real, tangible, everyday improvement work.

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  Sarindi Aryasinghe

As Picker publish their independent evaluation of Q, our Managing Director, Penny Pereira, reflects on what we’ve learned.

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  Penny Pereira

Q member Mani Dhesi explains how radically redesigning patient care pathways for community settings can both improve the patient experience and free up valuable clinical time in secondary care.

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  Mani Dhesi

Q member Karla Rimaitis considers the shift to neighbourhood health in light of her experiences with improvement and innovation in primary care.

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  Karla Rimaitis

Q’s Managing Director Penny Pereira on what informed our future plans, what lies ahead and how you can be involved.

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  Penny Pereira

With fieldwork for the 2025 NHS staff survey set to begin, we reflect on the results of the 2024 survey and what we can learn about staff engagement – and its consequences for improvement.

• Bryan Jones
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  Penny Pereira
• Nicola Burgess

Q member Guddi Singh on what led her to create a new BBC Radio 4 series asking the questions the health service avoids – and what the answers mean for improvement.

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  Guddi Singh

Drawing on our work on QMS and a roundtable we convened with NHS England, we offer recommendations for how the quality strategy can best meet the needs of the health sector.

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  Spela Godec
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  Matt Hill

The key themes that emerged from Q members’ reflections on the 10-year plan.

• Q Team
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  Andrea Gibbons
• Emma Snow
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  Clifford Mitchell
• Anita Rowe
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  Domenica Gilroy
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  Levette Lamb
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  Miles Sibley
• Chris Pavlakis
• Felicity Hamer
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  Anna Burhouse
• Dr Orla Healy
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  Rammya Mathew
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  David Seamark