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Advancing Quality Alliance

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We co-produce impactful change for your service users, colleagues and communities through strategic alliances. Offering value-for-money, evidence-based, efficient tailored solutions, underpinned and informed by a solid foundation of lived experience.

Across 3 key areas, we guarantee to produce results:

Governance, Regulatory Support and Well-Led
Leadership and Organisational Development
Improvement, Productivity, Innovation and Learning

Our 15-year track record of delivering real impact for our customers includes an extensive history of multi-year strategic improvement partnerships with health and care organisations to support the delivery of their strategic priorities such as improvement and productivity, whilst also building sustainable capacity and capability.

Programmes

To support our work, we host a number of events, collaboratives and webinars that are free for members to attend.

Consultancy

We work with organisations including NHS Trusts, integrated care systems, local authorities, third sector, social care and housing associations, offering project-by-project consultancy and transformation services.

Resources

Our resources include a range of publications, toolkits, videos, case studies and documents that we have developed from programmes we’ve worked on or our other areas of work.

News and Insights

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Let’s Talk Evaluation of Improvement

Let’s talk evaluation of improvement. Why is it that we still struggle to do this? Why do we need to? The need is never more important. Despite decades of improvement […]

06 Oct 2025

Reflective Blog: NHS England North West Improvement Collaboratives

Last month marked the exciting launch of our partnership with NHS England North West to deliver three new Improvement Collaboratives, focusing on urgent and emergency care, elective care, and adult […]

30 Sep 2025

Sue Holden Appointed to National Panel Overseeing Maternity and Neonatal Services Assessment

We are proud to announce that Sue Holden, our Chair, has been appointed to the Maternity and Neonatal Assurance Assessment Oversight Panel, a newly formed expert group tasked with evaluating the safety […]

04 Sep 2025

Launching our Leadership Lens: A series of masterclasses to support senior NHS leaders

The Advancing Quality Alliance (Aqua) is proud to launching the Leadership Lens, a series of virtual masterclasses designed to support senior NHS leaders with the challenges of leading in today’s […]

04 Sep 2025

New Improvement Collaboratives with NHS England North West

We’re proud to be partnering with NHS England North West to support three new Improvement Collaboratives focused on urgent and emergency care, elective care, and adult mental health. Together, we’ll […]

19 Aug 2025

Reimagining NHS Improvement: The Future Is Now

As leaders at Aqua, we’ve worked alongside teams across health and care, who are committed to making a real difference – often in the face of challenging conditions. We’ve seen […]

28 Jul 2025