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Know someone who would make a great
#QMember
? We're delighted to announce that we will be taking applications to join the
#QCommunity
from Thursday 14 June. Watch this space for more details about how to apply.
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🎉 Congratulations to Q advisory board member
@DrAmarShah
on his new role as National Clinical Director for NHS improvement.
We’re looking forward to continuing to work alongside each other to support and accelerate health care improvement.
See more:
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@SamanthaJNHS
"I'm banning the words 'scale' and 'pace': it only works as fast as the relationships allow it to happen".
#HFconference
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That’s a wrap for
#QEvent2019
!
We’d like to thank all of today's speakers for sharing their experience and insight, as well as all attendees for coming along to today’s event, connecting, sharing experience and being a part of this wonderful
#Qcommunity
!
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Good morning from Birmingham,
#Qcommunity
! We’re excited to start welcoming Q members to
#QEvent2018
in the next hour
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🎉 It's
#WorldPatientSafetyDay
today,
#Qcommunity
!
What are you doing to mark the very first international day for
#PatientSafety
?
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Want to be a Change Agent,
#Qcommunity
?
@Sch4Change
is an online and global community across health and care, run by
@helenbevan
's team
@horizonsnhs
. Find out more and sign up now:
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📢 We are pleased to announce that we will be funding 30 projects through
#QExchange2020
!
The projects showcase a dynamic range of improvement ideas from across the UK & Ireland, committed to tackling the challenges of
#COVID19
:
👇 Browse the projects
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Q is just starting up an 'Allied Health Professions in Quality Improvement' group - please join and get involved (open to all):
@WHHAHPs
@CarolMillingto8
@Ruth_HeggieNHS
@naomi_burden
#AHPsintoaction
#Qcommunity
#124all
#liberatingstructures
@WHHAHPs
@WHHAMT
@CarolMillingto8
@theQCommunity
#whatmatterstomeaboutleadership
Therapies away day
#AHPsintoaction
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Q in 280 characters! Q is a diverse and growing community of people with improvement expertise in health and care from across the UK. Q makes it easier for people leading improvement to share, learn and collaborate to make health and care better
#Qcommunity
#Twitter280Characters
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Thank you so much to everyone who attended
#Qevent2017
and to those of you who followed here on Twitter. If you missed anything do take a look at the blog that includes links and resources from throughout the day
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"Wanting to improve is not the same as knowing how to do it."
☕ Grab your morning coffee
#Qcommunity
and read
@MaryDixonWoods
' essay for
@bmj_latest
on how to improve healthcare improvement:
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 20 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today, including:
@Deanna_SHU
@mountfordjames
@GSCornell
@HJTucker
@abimerriel
@D__Paul
@louiseodalaigh
@ma1hew
@FionaKilpatrick
@CancerPsychNHS
@Cath_E_Hogan
and
@adamdidcott
!
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In case you missed it last week, we announced that we will be taking applications to join the
#QCommunity
from next week. Watch this space for more details about how to apply.
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📢 Save the date for
#QEvent2020
!
This year, we'll be going virtual for our community event, packed with opportunities to connect, share, learn and collaborate.
We hope to see you there:
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Opportunities to join the
#QCommunity
are now open! Throughout 2018 we are welcoming applications from people with improvement expertise based anywhere in the UK. Check out the
#JoinQ
page on our website for more information:
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'How to use Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) to power co-production with patients' – Zoom video call with Catherine Dale. Join us on 8 July (midday). Organised by
#Qcommunity
's Co-production SIG.
More info/register:
#coproduction
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"Wanting to improve is not the same as knowing how to do it."
📝 Sunday reading in the form of
@MaryDixonWoods
' essay for
@bmj_latest
on how to improve healthcare improvement:
#Qcommunity
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NEW: We have refreshed our CAPS toolkit. Lots of methods for creative collaboration & problem-solving:
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A new opportunity hear renowned complexity/leadership pioneer Prof Mary Uhl-Bien: "How to master the art of creating the ‘Adaptive Spaces’ that enable innovations to spread" (Dec 4, 4pm, Zoom video/phone). More info/to register - all welcome:
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📝 What role can and should
#QualityImprovement
take during and after the
#COVID19
pandemic?
In her latest blog,
#Qcommunity
member
@joyfurnival
, explores the role of QI within the current crisis and the importance of learning from each other. Read now:
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We will be live blogging the whole event - so even if you're not at
#QEvent2018
you won't miss a thing. Check out our preparations for
#QExchange
with the shortlisted project teams:
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Want to be a Change Agent,
#Qcommunity
?
@Sch4Change
is an online and global community across health and care, run by
@helenbevan
's team
@horizonsnhs
. Find out more and sign up now:
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Have you got a great idea that you’d like to get £30,000 of funding for,
#Qcommunity
?
#QExchange2019
is back and will open for ideas on 10 June. Find out more and start thinking and talking to each other about potential ideas:
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 19 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today including:
@mel_little1
@AngelaEdmunds1
@angie_mcclarren
@mjismail
@SharriePrice
@rachael_middle
@ChessellSarah
@GabrielleAlphon
@fizz_liz
@TomDGlover
@DianeFuller001
@NuviYapa
and more!
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Did you know, you can be part of
#TEDxNHS
by joining a livestream of the event?
#inspiredbypeople
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Interested in Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and diversity? Join the video call on 20th December (4pm) with Josephine Ocloo and Q's 'PPI and Diversity' SIG. Non-Qs welcome. Full details:
#Qcommunity
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🙌 Are you interested in methods of increasing staff morale,
#Qcommunity
?
Join the upcoming webinar to hear from the Intellectual Disability CAMHS Team at the
@SouthernHSCT
on how they implemented
#JoyinWork
to increase team morale.
Book your place:
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Fabulous 'Joy in Work' concall just now, hearing from pple around the UK. 'Psychological Safety' came up as a key foundation, perhaps even a pre-requisite.
Join Q's 'Joy in Work' group here (to learn about future calls + upcoming conference) (open to all)
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🎉
#QEvent2020
is officially complete!
Thank you to all of our speakers, members and staff for making the last two days such a success!
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#Qcommunity
do you struggle to seek new perspectives when problem solving? We've produced a CAPS toolkit with 25 activities to facilitate creative collaboration for you to try out. Download the toolkit:
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Interested in improving joy in work? Join a videocall with Q's new 'Improving Joy in Work' special interest group to share your experiences and thoughts on creating joy in work, and learn about IHI's Framework:
#Qcommunity
- all welcome
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📢 The votes have been counted and we are pleased to announce the 20 successful projects for this year’s
#QExchange
!
The projects show an impressive range of improvement ideas, bridging the worlds of improvement and digital
👉
👇 Browse the projects
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ICYMI:
@HealthFdn
launched a new edition of quick guide
#QualityImprovement
made simple, a great resource for colleagues new to improvement, covering:
✅ Model for improvement
✅ Lean
✅ Clinical microsystems
✅ Experience-based co-design
Find out more:
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📢 We share the theme for the next round of
#QExchange
, our participatory funding programme with grants of up to £40k available, opening for ideas on 15 February!
Find out more 👉
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It's the moment you've been waiting for
#Qcommunity
, the
#QExchange
shortlist is now live! Check out the 25 shortlisted ideas:
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🎉 Registration is now open for the
#QEvent2020
!
Join fellow Q members to explore what
#COVID19
means for you, improvement, and the future of health and care.
✍️ Develop skills
💭 Share ideas
🔗 Make connections
✔️ Gain fresh perspectives
Book now:
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Interested in creating
#joyinwork
? The
#Qcommunity
's
#joyinwork
SIG is running an event on 28 March for those completely new to
#joyinwork
right through to those who are well underway with implementation. Find out more:
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💡 Are you on the look out for new perspectives on problem-solving,
#Qcommunity
? We produced a Creative Approaches to Problem Solving (CAPS) toolkit with 25 activities to facilitate creative collaboration for you to try out.
Download the toolkit:
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📝 The
@HealthFdn
and
@bmj_latest
have introduced a collection of articles to support quality improvement measures.
🔍 Browse the collection to hear more about the skills and knowledge needed to do quality improvement well:
#QITwitter
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 45 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today, including:
@Jamesspence100
@GeetikaQI
@OTMcCracken
@LatchAid
@jamesecoulston
@samharding
@clairehubb
@DKingdeMontano
@tanyabyrnepratt
@GemmaMooreQI
@Alison5Cole
@WhittingRebecca
and more!
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Are you about to start a quality improvement project,
#Qcommunity
? From 17 September,
@NHSImprovement
is running a QI mini course that will provide an introduction to the field and support you to undertake small scale improvement projects. Find out more:
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It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for: the shortlist for this year’s Q Exchange! Check out our thread to find out more about the 30 shortlisted projects across the two themes 👇
#QExchange
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Welcome to our NEW Twitter account for Q – the community that brings together health and
#socialcare
improvers from right across the UK
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 20 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today, including:
@AnitaWhalley
@EliadesAnne
@griffithsdavid
@ehamilton192
@DrJohnTansley
@judeclipsom
@LLindsay_HIA
@lucy_nankivell
@LittleDMatt
@OwenBennett1
@rebeccahanmer
and
@TomJohnsonNHS
!
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🔧 What framework is needed for evaluating
#QI
training?
Join
#Qcommunity
members
@markmccrory8
and
@camperofdreams
' workshop about their
#QExchange
project focused on evaluating Quality Improvement training.
Register now:
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Q members with an interest in learning more about how to build thriving networks should keep an eye out for our upcoming 'Network Weaving' learning series - not to be missed...!
#QCommunity
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🎉
#QExchange2020
is now open! 🎉
Apply for up to £30,000 for your improvement idea under this year's theme:
Embedding positive changes emerging through new collaborations or partnerships during COVID-19.
Find out more:
#Qcommunity
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Hello from all of us here at
#QEvent2019
this morning!
Are you joining us on the livestream? 💻 There's still time to catch the first session with Q Initiative Director,
@PennyPereira1
:
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Join the Q Community’s Liberating Structures user group – to practice using LS together, in a safe space (and help make Zoom meetings more fun and engaging!). Our first meet-up is next month. To register/more info:
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At the closing plenary of
#ImprovementCymru
conference,
@PennyPereira1
announced new partnership between Q and
@ImprovementCym
to create Q Lab Cymru – an improvement Lab focusing on health and care challenges in Wales, made possible by
@healthfdn
and
@ImprovementCym
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🔧 Are you on the look out for new perspectives on problem-solving,
#Qcommunity
?
We produced a Creative Approaches to Problem Solving (CAPS) toolkit with 25 activities to facilitate creative collaboration for you to try out.
Download the toolkit:
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📣 Applications for the Sir Peter Carr Partnership Award are open
#Qcommunity
! If you're an NHS clinician working with a manager on a joint project to improve care for patients you can apply for the £30,000 grant from
@NHSImprovement
. Find out more:
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 35 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today including:
@_ACWalker_
@callenridge
@chediaqi
@danny_sherwood
@dowdenmoira
@DrKateKanga
@emward_pharm
@EulaEMiller
@fi_evans
@FreyaMurch
@hannahwilton79
@jennyrusby
@joa1dav
@JWWise
&
@Kaiboo77
!
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Are you involved in system level change
#Qcommunity
? The ACT Academy (hosted by
@NHSImprovement
) is offering a fully funded programme, open to teams working on any type of complex transformational change within health and care. Find out more:
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🔧 Are you on the look out for new perspectives on problem-solving,
#Qcommunity
?
We produced a Creative Approaches to Problem Solving (CAPS) toolkit with 25 activities to facilitate creative collaboration for you to try out.
Download the toolkit:
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Interested in what builds 'Psychological Safety' in healthcare teams?
There's a limited opportunity to read the paper 'A systematic review of factors that enable psychological safety in healthcare teams' - don't miss it.
.
@OUPMedicine
has opened this important paper for a few weeks by
@coleadproject
@UCDHealth
@ISQua
systematic review of factors that enable psychological safety in healthcare teams thanks
@helenbevan
@PeterLachman
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Welcome to our new
@HealthFdn
Q members! inc
@stacey_lally
@TimGardnerTHF
@BecksFisher
@AnnaStarling
@timjhorton
@frances_wiseman
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 27 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today including:
@davidcmcnally
@JWhome9
@SukhQi
@rhoda_loye
@LisatPatexp
@Bex_Foxy
@AndrewVCuff
@SiobhanMCarthy
@bernilove
@quietman7
@Jen230675
@hazeyfantasy6
!
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📢 Applications to join Q are still open 📢
Now more than ever, it is important that improvers continue to share, learn and connect to support their work on
#COVID19
.
Come and join 3,500+ already part of the
#Qcommunity
across the UK and Ireland:
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 25 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today, including:
@BevGall30
@rhonda_riachi
@TrJW
@nicolacoleSLT
@cknightcott
@wilkinsoncg
@pphillips2020
@JulieSlevin01
@Laura_J_Simms
@Karas01
@nneagbasi
@claredthomson
@ncepod
and
@maurelio88
!
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 27 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today including:
@annegeary50
@Sarahlougarland
@liz_kelso
@jessgent78
@hannahlark01
@MaevePWallace
@LizMoor34474850
@Murray_Connolly
@SaraMcdevitt
@serviceimpkchft
@fabblisa
@RebeccaLaff
&
@MaggieNHS
!
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Are you a patient and/or a public involvement/patient safety lead working in an acute trust,
#Qcommunity
?
@NHSImprovement
are looking for participants for a focus group to develop a national patient safety strategy. Find out more:
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Interested in how senior leaders and Boards can be most effective in their support of Quality Improvement? Join Prof Naomi Fulop on 2 December to find out (Zoom video/phone call, 12.30pm). More info/register:
#Qcommunity
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🔧 Are you on the look out for new perspectives on problem-solving,
#Qcommunity
? We produced a Creative Approaches to Problem Solving (CAPS) toolkit with 25 activities to facilitate creative collaboration for you to try out.
🧰 Download the toolkit:
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Thank you to everyone for a great day with the
#QLabs
workshop - if you missed it (another plug) see the live blog via
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Learn how to use 'Experience-Based Co-Design' (EBCD) to power co-production with your patients – from Catherine Dale: the video recording of our rewarding Zoom session is now on YouTube:
#Qcommunity
#coproduction
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A big welcome to the 105 new
#Qcommunity
members that joined Q on Friday! If you want to join Q find out more at:
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'How to use Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) to power co-production with patients' – Zoom video session with Catherine Dale. Join us on 8 July (midday). Organised by
#Qcommunity
's Co-production SIG.
More info/register:
#coproduction
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Prof Charlotte McArdle (Chief Nursing Officer, DoH): "Q is building a social movement of improvers... a force for change... to disrupt the system".
#QComNI
#Qcommunity
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📣 Applications for the Sir Peter Carr Partnership Award are open
#Qcommunity
! If you're an NHS clinician working with a manager on a joint project to improve care for patients you can apply for the £30,000 grant from
@NHSImprovement
. Find out more:
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🎉 Congratulations and a big welcome to the 40 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today, including:
@Olivia_Wall_
@shah_meeraj
@spooner_rosie
@MhuktiPerumal
@bouncebackst
@aoife_db
@Shanewoodhouse
@Gemma_Louch
@DAVIDJVAUGHAN
@TOMNetworkUK
@BegentDebbie
@VITTORIA_ROMANO
@pigsy1983
!
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📣 We've published a working paper outlining the findings from our recent insight survey into improvement during
#COVID19
!
🗣️ We want to hear your feedback on how we’ve interpreted what we have heard.
Read now to see the emergent insights:
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🎉 The votes have been counted and we are pleased to announce the funded projects for
#QExchange
5!
The projects show an impressive range of improvement ideas on ways to reduce delays accessing health and care services.
Browse the projects 👉
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Have a read: 'Engineering better care - a systems approach to health + care design + continuous improvemnt'
#Qvisits
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Transforming patient experience, using co-production: learn how the ‘Always Events’ methodology is spreading co-production across the NHS. Join Q Zoom call on 29 Oct (12.30) with
@helenlee321_lee
,
@lorrainewolfen1
(NHS England). Register/info:
#Qcommunity
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📢 Launching today: The role of improvement during the response to
#COVID19
: insights from the
#QCommunity
👇 Check out this thread to discover more about our new report, now available to download: (1/5)
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Join
#LiberatingStructures
co-founder Keith McCandless, the Q Liberating Structures and Healthcare SIG and others on 18th March (4pm, Zoom video call) for an opportunity to build and deepen your LS repertoire.
More info/to register:
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Congratulations and a big welcome to the 18 new
#Qcommunity
members joining today 🎉 Including:
@AilsaBrotherton
@AlexClaireCook
@mcginnesali
@aprilmasson
@CatherineSilco1
@ClaireTimmons5
@hevswarner
@JennieWillo
@isafox202
@lizsargent66
@LynneD666
@HUMANFIIT
!
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We’re looking forward to welcoming
#Qcommunity
members to
@KingsPlace
tomorrow for the
#QEvent2019
! 🙌
Will you be joining us? What are you most looking forward to?
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A massive 'Thank Q' to everyone who came to
#QEvent2019
and made it such a success!
Head over to the live blog to catch up on all the action, including the all-important
#QExchange
winners:
#Qcommunity
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📣 Applications for the Sir Peter Carr Partnership Award are open
#Qcommunity
! If you're an NHS clinician working with a manager on a joint project to improve care for patients you can apply for the £30,000 grant from
@NHSImprovement
.
Find out more:
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Are you running a technology project,
#Qcommunity
? Join
@trishgreenhalgh
next Wednesday for a Zoom call exploring how by understanding complexity you can improve the success of technology projects in health and social care. Register now: …
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#QExchange
is now open,
#Qcommunity
! 🎉
Check out this thread for more information on the themes and how to apply 👇
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📣 Our new project on defining and measuring good staff engagement in major change is now live!
Check out this thread to find out more 👇 (1/4)
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Looking to learn more about
#QI
? We have 1 license remaining for a
#Qcommunity
member to access Qi4U, a flexible, CPD-certified, eLearning resource, developed by
@CLAHRC_NWL
. Modules include public & patient involvement and plan-do-study-act cycles. Get in touch: Q
@health
.org.uk
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