Q is an initiative, led by the Health Foundation and supported and co-funded by NHS England, connecting people skilled in improvement across the UK. Q will make it easier for people from all parts of the health care system with expertise in improvement to share ideas, enhance their skills, and make changes that benefit patients.

1. What is Q?

2. About Q
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Q began as an initiative to recruit ‘5,000 Safety Fellows’
following a recommendation of the 2013 Berwick report
A promise to learn, a commitment to act.
Now Q is carrying forward the vision to embed continual
learning and improvement in the NHS.

3. Founding Cohort 2015
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To ensure the design of Q meets the needs of those doing
improvement so it becomes an embedded part of how we
learn and work across organisations, Q is being
collaboratively designed with a founding cohort of 231
participants.
Wider recruitment will commence in 2016

4. Benefits for the health and
care system
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Q will help promote quality improvement within the health and care
system, encouraging and supporting a wide range of people to commit to
learning the skills needed to effectively lead improvement.
By providing a clear picture of who is currently skilled in improvement
(and where), it will be easier to target capability building activity.
Over time, a platform will be established for people to collaborate across
the UK on improvement challenges, making it easier to pool knowledge
and energy to enable faster and more sustainable progress on cross-
system issues.

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For more information and to register for updates:
www.health.org.uk/q-initiative
q@health.org.uk
#theqinitiative

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