Aqua

Courses and Events

Our courses and events are designed to support your improvement and transformation journey.

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Meet our Lived Experience Partners

We are delighted to welcome Edyta and Tameka to our Lived Experience Partners team.

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Read our 3-year Strategy

Discover how we're inspiring the best quality health and care for everyone.

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Membership Guide
2024 - 2025

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Join our Bitesized Board sessions.

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Welcome to the
Advancing Quality Alliance

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Our purpose is to inspire the best quality health and care for everyone. Proudly part of the NHS, we work as an improvement partner with integrated care systems, organisations, teams and individuals, in the UK and beyond to:

  • Enable safe care by developing people and culture
  • Develop great leadership
  • Co-produce person-centred care with lived experience partners
  • Embed continuous improvement
  • Enable effective governance and regulatory preparedness

We address our customers’ complex needs from Board to the point of care, supporting them through project-based consultancy or long-term membership relationships.

Programmes

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

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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.

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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.

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News and Insights

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Transforming Safety Mindsets: A Systems-Based Approach

We are thrilled to share the progress we’ve made with our Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) programmes. Together with NHS England’s Maternity and Neonatal Safety Transformation team, Patient Safety […]

18 Feb 2025

Masterclass Insights: Embedding a Culture and Practice of Social Value

We recently co-hosted a Collaborative Masterclass to empower leaders to embed a culture of social value within their organisations. The session focused on making social value a cornerstone of public […]

12 Feb 2025

A Festive Message from Dr. Susy Cook, Chief Executive

  As we head towards the end of 2024, we wanted to share with you some of the work and learning we’ve experienced throughout this year – with you, our […]

19 Dec 2024

Meet Our Lived Experience Partners – Tameka and Edyta

We are delighted to welcome Edyta and Tameka to our Lived Experience Partners team. Read more about them, their role and what inspired them to become a join our Lived […]

17 Dec 2024

We are hiring a Director of People and Operations

Are you a dynamic, collaborative, and experienced senior leader with a proven track record of delivering successful transformative and innovative work within the health sector?  An exciting opportunity has arisen […]

13 Dec 2024

How Organisational Development Can Support Your Culture of Continuous Improvement

A blog by Elizabeth Bradbury, Director  Over the past 15 years at Aqua we’ve seen a huge increase in demand for organisational and system cultural support. By culture we mean […]

29 Nov 2024

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