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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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Aqua appointed to NHS Shared Business Services Framework for Audit Services

We are delighted to announce that we have been successfully appointed to the NHS SBS Framework Agreement for Audit Services for Health, covering the period 1 September 2025 – 31 […]

13 Nov 2025

Leadership Lens: Reclaiming the Soul of Leadership in Health and Care

On 10 October, we launched our first session in our Leadership Lens series, a dynamic series of thought-provoking discussions designed exclusively for senior leaders who are committed to growth, transformation, and […]

28 Oct 2025

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