The document provides an introduction to the Q Community, which aims to connect healthcare improvers across the UK to share ideas, enhance skills, and make changes that benefit patients. The summary is: 1) The Q Community is a connected network of over 200 healthcare improvers from across the UK working to improve health and care quality. 2) It was designed with input from founding members to facilitate collaboration, learning, idea sharing, and connections between improvers. 3) Members can get involved through various activities from attending short webinars to participating in long-term projects, with the goal of supporting existing improvement work.

1. Presentation 1Welcome to the Q Community!

2. Q – The Big Picture
Why we are all here and the future
vision for Q.
Georgie Denis, Regional Partnerships Manager, Q
Thursday 6 July

3. Congratulations!
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4. Your Q community
• A connected community working
together to improve health and care
quality across the UK
• Supports people in their existing
improvement work: making it easier
to share ideas, enhance skills and
make changes that benefit patients
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6. Why improvement needs diverse
communities?
None of us is as smart as all of us
- Kenneth H. Blanchard

7. Designed by you, for you
• Designed with 231 founding members – diverse
cross section of improvers from across the UK
• Members continue to help shape the community

8. Collaborating
Exchange
Learning
Connecting
Thriving Q

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12. What can you get from Q?

13. Choose how you are involved

14. To connect?
5min
30min
s
+hour

15. To learn?
5min
30min
s
+hours

16. To exchange?
5mins
30min
s
+

17. To collaborate?
5mins
30min
ss
+
Get involved in a Specialist
Interest Group…

18. What’s next for you?

19. Opportunities
Conveners
Connectors

20. What is the future going to look like?

21. Reactions? Questions?

22. Thank you
Visit us online: http://q.health.org.uk
Email the Health Foundation: QMembers@health.org.uk
Follow us on Twitter: @theQCommunity #Qcommunity

23. Presentation 1Juliette Kumar
Innovation Agency
Associate Director Education & Improvement
@JulietteKumar

24. Being a member of Q
July 2017
Helen Lee
Head of Quality Improvement and Experience
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust

25. About Q
• Diverse community of people working in improvement in
health and care across the UK
• Make it easier for people leading improvement to share
ideas, enhance their skills and make changes that bring
improvements to health and care
• Led by the Health Foundation and supported and co-
funded by NHS Improvement

26. 00.11.15 Title of Presentation

28. Stay in touch
• Visit online: www.health.org.uk/Q
• Email: Q@health.org.uk
• Follow the conversation on Twitter: @HealthFdn
#theqinitiative

29. Thank you
Helen.lee@lancashirecare.nhs.uk
@helenlee321_lee

30. Presentation 1Open Space Activity
Sue Hooton
University of Chester
Prof of Nursing & Quality Improvement
Juliette Kumar
Innovation Agency
Associate Education & Improvement

31. Presentation 1Unconference QI Clinic