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Diverse views and commentary from Q, community members and across the health and care improvement landscape.

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  • Improving patient communication and care with technology

    24 September 2024 
    9 minute read 

    A Q Exchange project looks at using innovative technology as part of an apporoach to reduce falls and pressure ulcers in elderly patients.

    • Jonathan Yazbek
      Jonathan Yazbek
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Health and prevention
    • Long-term conditions
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Patient safety
    • Services
    • Mental health
    • Older people’s care
  • Creating a QI movement: how QI Week began

    10 September 2024 
    3 minute read 

    Q member Anita DeHavilland tells the story of creating QI Week running from 9 to 13 September 2024, and encourages you to get involved.

    • Anita DeHavilland
      Anita DeHavilland
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement culture
    • Networking
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Q member and physiotherapist Jo Kitchen reflects on a Q lunch and learn event on Community Appointment Days.

    • Joanna Kitchen
      Joanna Kitchen
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Access and waiting times
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
    • Quality of care
    • Person-centred care
  • Lessons in hiking: the ups and downs of making change

    19 June 2024 
    5 minute read 

    Q member, Guddi Singh offers three approaches for keeping perspective while engaged in the change journey.

    • Guddi Singh
      Guddi Singh
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Q Managing Director Penny Pereira explores what improvement approaches and expertise will be needed for the health and care sector under the new government.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    Topics
    • Digital and data
    • Digital technology
    • Health sector challenges
    • Productivity
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Innovation
    • Leadership and management
    • Leadership
  • Professional Advocacy is a network of nursing and midwifery professionals helping this vital workforce to recover and grow.

    • Martin Hogan
      Martin Hogan
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • COVID-19 and recovery
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
  • Evaluating QI capacity building

    28 May 2024 
    2 minute read 

    Read an evaluation based on the Kirkpatrick model about QI capacity building using workforce collaboration and leadership and management.

    • Iain Smith
      Iain Smith
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Leadership and management
    • Workforce and people
    • Quality of care
    • Timeliness and efficiency
  • The Q team share the improvement themes from this year’s Forum, including looking at failure, rule-breaking and adding rigour to QI.

    • Penny Pereira
      Penny Pereira
    • Libby Keck
      Libby Keck
    • Matt Hill
      Matt Hill
    • Spela Godec
      Spela Godec
    Topics
    • Health sector challenges
    • Equity, diversity and inclusion
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Improvement capability
    • Innovation
    • Spread and adoption
    • Systems change
    • Leadership and management
  • Three keys to advanced QI training success

    4 April 2024 
    4 minute read 

    Q member Caitlin Bateman reflects on the learning from University Hospitals Bristol and Weston’s QI Gold programme.

    • Caitlin Bateman
      Caitlin Bateman
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Collaboration
    • Improvement capability
    • Improvement culture
    • Spread and adoption
    • Leadership and management
    • Organisational development
    • Workforce and people
  • Keeping scepticism alive in health care improvement

    28 March 2024 
    6 minute read 

    Explore the role that philosophy can play in upholding an active culture of scepticism in health care improvement.

    • Polly Mitchell
      Polly Mitchell
    Topics
    • Improvement and innovation
    • Complexity
    • Improvement culture
    • Improvement research and evaluation
    • Patient and public involvement
    • Leadership and management
    • Policy and regulation
    • Workforce and people
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