The Quality Improvement Canvas is a practical one-page approach that helps healthcare professionals and teams make sense of improvement problems, structure their thinking and identify opportunities to improve quality, optimise value, reduce health inequalities and create sustainable change.
By working through 6 keys steps, a series of prompt questions and suggested tools based on the Model for Improvement and the PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) methodology, you will develop a one-page canvas that captures your thinking, guides your project, and evolves alongside your improvement work.
The purpose of this canvas is to help structure your thinking, challenge assumptions, and create a practical starting point for improvement, all on a single page. You do not need to have everything figured out before you begin; in fact, the questions are often most valuable when you don't.
Using it on your own? Think through a problem and develop your initial improvement plan.
Using it with a colleague? Create a shared structure for an improvement conversation, bring different perspectives together and make sense of a problem.
Adopting it for learning or as a training tool? Use a real problem to explore how quality improvement works.
READY TO START?
You don't need a perfect project idea and you don't need to know the solution.
Start with the problem, then use the QI Canvas to explore it.
Download your one-page canvas, print it, or share it on screen.
Work through it independently, with colleagues, or as a team.
Work through your QI canvas with a coach assist function to help capture your thinking process step by step, and generate a structured improvement plan ready for review and refinement by you and your team
An interactive strategy game for quality improvement education, designed for frontline clinicians and teams working at the intersection of problems and solutions. The game helps players explore real-world improvement problems, challenge their assumptions, and collaboratively complete the QI canvas.
This canvas is designed to evolve, with a focus on supporting early career clinicians involved in quality improvement work, in a meaningful way. Your feedback on what worked well, what was missing, what would have been helpful, and what could be improved will help shape what comes next.