Penny is Q Managing Director. She joined the Health Foundation in 2011.
Before joining the Health Foundation, Penny worked at Newham University Healthcare NHS Trust in East London, where she was the Director of Strategy and Service Improvement. Penny has spent her career leading improvement work at local and national level in the NHS, with particular expertise in process and system redesign, leading strategic change across organisations, developing networks to support improvement, collaborative design and patient safety.
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Newsletter blog
Top-down clarity, bottom-up agency: fading freedoms or here to stay?
Penny Pereira and Ruth Thorlby look at what factors have enabled new levels of ingenuity in...
Long read
Understanding and sustaining the health care service shifts accelerated by COVID-19
COVID-19 has significantly changed the context in which the NHS operates. Here, we bring together...
Learning report
Q: The journey so far
This report reflects the commitment of the Health Foundation and NHS Improvement to share progress...
Blog
Q: momentum is growing
With the 70-year anniversary of the NHS, July has been a month for combining celebration for what...
Learning report
The challenge and potential of whole system flow
Outlines an organising framework and tested methods that local health and social care leaders can...
Learning report
Building Q
This report looks at the first year of the Q initiative and the extensive co-design process used to...
Blog
What does it really take to improve patient safety?
How confident are you that the risk management processes in your organisation enable you to predict...
Blog
Building improvement capability: 5 ways to maximise your chances of success
Penny Ereira shares five key insights on how to develop capability building plans locally and...
Blog
Safety in the NHS: it’s time to be brave
Today, new safety data will be published on the NHS Choices website. The data will cover various...
Blog
What gets measured gets done. Or does it?
'What gets measured gets done' – a well-established mantra, and with good reason. But I’m not...
Blog
Improving your organisation's approach to safety: five questions to ask
(Re-)read the Berwick report recently? While it perhaps didn't get much profile beyond improvement...
Blog
Constant learning, continuous improvement - lessons from Francis
2013 will go down as a year when the NHS did a lot of soul searching. In February, Sir Robert...
Blog
Measurement and data: the Hard Truth
Today, the government published Hard Truths, its response to the recommendations of Sir Robert...
Blog
Aligning clinical and corporate services to improve care
This month we’re starting work with the organisations selected for our Shared Purpose programme, and...
Blog
Common challenges to improving quality
Today we’re launching a new report that gives a cogent and engaging analysis of what we’ve learnt...
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