"When working on quality improvement, particularly if you are leading a project, it can be difficult to find people to ask for advice, or to share ideas with. The Q Initiative gives you ready access to people working on the same sorts of issues, in many different settings. I often e-mail or call people I have met through Q to ask their opinion or advice. Even talking issues over with people who have personal experience of similar situations can help to get your own thoughts in order, and let you see where to go next. Q provides a framework for this sort of contact, and I have found it very useful."