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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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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

Saving Lives Together: Aqua and The Dudley Group Celebrated for Sepsis Care Innovation

A partnership between the Advancing Quality Alliance (Aqua) and The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised by the Health Service Journals Patient Safety Congress, for its outstanding work […]

23 Jul 2025

Shaping the Future Together: Our Response to the NHS 10-Year Plan

We’re really pleased to see the NHS 10 Year Plan published. It sets out a clear and ambitious direction for the future—one that focuses on three big shifts: moving care […]

03 Jul 2025

Meet our new team of Directors

Aqua’s Executive team has evolved in recent months, with new appointments and exciting new remits for our Directors. We are pleased to introduce: Cath Hill – Director Strategic Finance Dr […]

03 Apr 2025

Transforming Tomorrow Through Leadership and Improvement Today

The Advancing Quality Alliance is marking 15 years at the forefront of healthcare transformation with a special event, ‘Transforming Tomorrow Through Leadership and Improvement Today’. The event will be held […]

07 Mar 2025