Learning and Improving Across Systems

The Health Foundation, NHS Confederation and the Q community are working in partnership to support health and care systems to learn and improve. 

The partnership brings the improvement expertise of the Health Foundation and the networks and relationships of NHS Confederation together with Q’s membership community of over 5,000 people collaborating to improve the safety and quality of care.

What does the partnership offer?

We are working with health and care systems to boost their capability to learn and improve collaboratively through a programme of support:

• peer spaces to learn with and from each other, connecting to local improvement ideas and expertise
• insight and innovation projects on specific complex issues, testing and learning together
• practical resources, materials and connections to support implementation in practice
• publications, podcasts and events to share learning and support implementation in practice.

Together, through this programme of support we will work with systems to:

• develop learning and improvement approaches needed to meet system goals
• galvanise local improvement ideas and expertise, helping leaders connect from the board to the ‘frontline’ of delivering change
• pool evidence and experience to understand and make progress on priority topics
• share and scale what we’re learning together.

Our work together is grounded in a learning framework for improving across health and care systems, developed by the Q community.

If you would like more information about our partnership or our peer learning programme please watch our video below or email: improvement@nhsconfed.org

“The expertise that's been deployed into the programme and that the peer relationships to help us to remain curious, to reflect on our progress, to ask questions that provoke our thinking. I think that's been the most impactful part for me.”