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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 [email protected]
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 [email protected] 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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