Category: Thought Leadership

Learning, networks, and sensemaking together: our first year at NHS Horizons

By Marc Harris and Victoria Treadway We (Marc Harris and Victoria Treadway) joined NHS Horizons in October 2023 to be […]

Creating the Conditions for Change: The Need for Adaptive Spaces

Authors: Kyla Avis, Tanya Verall & Marc Harris “The world doesn’t change one person at a time. It changes as […]

Why Relationship Building is Fundamental to Health System Improvement

Authors: Kyla Avis, Marc Harris, Tanya Verrall & Zoe Lord “Change moves at the speed of trust.” Stephen Covey Complex […]

Metaphors for understanding Rapid Insight 

By Laura Yearsley, Associate Director of Insights at NHS Horizons and creator of Rapid Insight (CC) Over the last few […]

The key ingredients of system change and improvement – our learnings from the International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare 

By Marc Harris, Head of Insight and Impact NHS Horizons Transformational change isn’t just about incremental improvements – it’s about […]

Rapid Insight: the missing piece in how we lead large-scale change 

By Laura Yearsley, Associate Director of Insights at NHS Horizons and creator of Rapid Insight (CC) Large scale change requires […]

Breaking Down Walls to a Positive Mindset

This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek has got me thinking more broadly about my own mental health. Particularly over the last 3-4 years. Like […]

Horizons News: New Leadership for NHS Horizons

After 8 years in the Horizons team, our Director Kathryn Perera is standing down at the end of this month […]

Launch of a new report: How do we define and demonstrate value from continuous improvement in the NHS?

By Professor Bernard Crump, Professor Helen Bevan and Dr Kathryn Perera April 2024 We want to address a topic that […]

The Voltage Effect – Scaling Best Practice

Five Traits Are Important for Best Practice to Scale Best practice must possess five traits to be scalable. Ruth Tyrrell, […]

What does it look like to build quality improvement into the strategic priorities of your organisation, using QI methodology to address your most pressing challenges?

By Kathryn Perera In the second week of July, I had an extraordinary week, experiencing the results of incredible QI […]

A New and Unique Resource to help you Spread and Scale Innovation and Improvement

Why do we still need to talk about spread and scale? The reality is we continue to see ‘isolated islands […]