Q is hosted by the NHS Alliance, building on their existing partnership to champion collaborative, bold, inclusive and purposeful improvement that spans sectors.
Having started and grown the Q community for 10 years, the Health Foundation remains a core partner and has committed funding until 2030. Find out more about this important development in Q’s journey.
We are a large and vibrant membership community collaboratively accelerating the improvement of health and care in the UK and Ireland. We learn together, support each other and share insights to address health system challenges. Together, we make faster progress to improve health and care for everyone, every day.
Members are at the heart of Q. The community thrives on its diverse range of skills, knowledge and perspectives. We inspire and support each other every day to deliver improvements to health and care. We develop our methods and share insights as we do so. And with a community spanning health, care and lived experience, we find new and inclusive ways for everyone to progress.
Welcoming people with experience in improvement, change and transformation from all backgrounds and settings, we bring about change that extends far beyond our community. Together, we want to embed a culture and practice of improvement that supports high quality care for all.
It's free to join Q. Being a member allows you to:
If you're interested in joining, visit the Q website.
Q can also help you through a range of tailored services that respond to the challenges you face.
By bringing together people, ideas, evidence and creative approaches, Q helps organisations and systems to co-design practical solutions and create the conditions for effective change at scale.
Q’s services include:
Explore Q’s services on the Q website or get in touch by email.
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Members of Q’s Insight team highlight the findings of their latest report about embedding and sustaining Quality Management Systems.
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Black Maternity Matters supports perinatal staff to reduce the inequitable maternity outcomes faced by Black mothers and their babies. We highlight its work to bring an anti-racism approach to quality...
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A new report from Q explores the role of improvement in delivering rapid service change during the pandemic. We summarise the learning and look at how we can build on the progress made.
30 projects have been selected for funding through Q Exchange, the Q community’s collaborative grant programme.
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Penny Pereira and Ruth Thorlby look at what factors have enabled new levels of ingenuity in frontline staff during the pandemic, speeding up service change and finding solutions to challenging problem...
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We’ve summarised how Q is helping during the COVID-19 pandemic, signposting to key information and resources.
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How can we work together most productively on the many complex challenges we face in health care improvement?