Q: connecting improvers uk wide

Q: connecting improvers UK wide Penny Pereira

29 January, 2016

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“The single most important change in the NHS … would be for it to become, more than ever before, a system devoted to continual learning and improvement of patient care, top to bottom and end to end”

“5000 safety fellows”

What is Q?

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• New initiative with £2m initial funding from NHSE and the Health Foundation

• Connecting hundreds (ultimately thousands) of people skilled in improvement across the UK: frontline staff, researchers, managers, policy makers, patient group leaders

• Making it easier to share ideas, enhance skills and make changes that benefit patients

Designing Q collaboratively

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• Over 300 people consulted in initial phase

• Intensive design with a diverse cross-section of 231 improvers

• Major independent yet embedded developmental evaluation from RAND Europe

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What is Q?

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• UK wide long term ‘home’ connecting those doing improvement from across the UK

• Seeks to support people in their existing improvement work: making it easier to share ideas, enhance skills and make changes that benefit patients

More detailed proposals

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• Available via Q webpage (health.org.uk/programmes/q-initiative)

• Feedback welcome by 12 Feb via Q@health.org.uk

How Q complements other work

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• Maintaining a directory of who’s doing what in improvement • Contributing to improvement capability building • Providing useful resources and infrastructure: focusing on

what adds value • Making it easier to mobilise around shared challenges • Seeking to build a more supportive environment for

improvement

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Join in on twitter #theqinitiative Email Q@health.org.uk for updates Visit our webpage: www.health.org.uk/programmes/q-initiatiive

Questions?

Reference slides

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Improvement labs

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• Designing and prototyping labs this year

• 2-3 facilitated spaces across the UK, pooling insight and energy to make progress on stubborn challenges

Selection criteria

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Recruitment strategy

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• Stretching but accessible criteria • High quality first contact with Q for 1000s of people • Gradual growth of the community • Phased opportunity to apply • Open online process managed by central team • Partnership with key stakeholder organisations focused on

engagement, decision making and shaping Q locally

Recruitment process

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