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The Q Improvement Lab
We bring people and organisations together to explore, develop and test ideas to make progress on health and care challenges.
What do changes in readmission rates tell us about quality of care in the NHS?
At a time at which patients being admitted to hospital are presenting with greater complexity than previous years, hospital readmissions have increased. What does this tell us about the quality of car...
Healthy cities must have equitable and affordable transport systems
In February 2018, mayors and political leaders of cities and urban places in the European Region of the World Health Organisation met in Copenhagen. They agreed on the Copenhagen Consensus of Mayors, ...
We need to talk about healthy streets
Using the Healthy Streets Approach, Lucy Saunders (of Transport for London and the Greater London Authority) outlines how we need to change the way we talk about transport in urban environments.
NHS managers should develop a stronger voice for good management
Speeding up improvements would mean understanding more about good management in the NHS and challenging poor management – less through regulation and more through stronger peer networks.
Healthy connections: Relationships, resilience and the early years
Not only do stronger networks lead to health and happiness, but health and happiness also facilitate stronger networks in return. Val McNeice, senior public health research specialist, explores the im...
Data sharing to improve care
As sharing data across organisations becomes the norm in the NHS, will general practice embrace its potential to improve the care we deliver to patients?
Measuring patient complexity in hospital admissions
How best to measure the complexity of patients’ health needs? Sarah Deeny, Assistant Director of Data Analytics, explores the issues.