ACQUIRE Newsletter / October 2026
Graduation / Cohort 2, 2026
Planting Seeds for Learning Healthcare Systems
Dear colleague,
Through 16 weeks of learning by doing, 61 frontline healthcare teams across 9 African countries applied QI-PS to real challenges, building the skills, teamwork, and momentum needed to strengthen learning healthcare systems from the grassroots up.
Join the celebration →Watch / Video
ACQUIRE’s Origin Story
Recorded during the 2025 ACQUIRE Quality Improvement Leadership Forum, this video features ACQUIRE’s co-founders sharing the story of how ACQUIRE began.
Watch on YouTube →ACQUIRE at ISQua Dublin 2026
What Conversation Is Your Organisation Avoiding That Could Unlock Learning?
At ISQua’s 42nd International Conference in Dublin, the ACQUIRE team reflected on strengthening QI-PS capacity, sustaining learning, and the importance of coming together to light one another’s flame and keep the work moving forward.
Read more on ACQUIRE’s ISQua Dublin 2026 experience →2026 in Numbers
ACQUIRE 2026 QI-PS Experiential Program in Numbers
Across 122 teams in the ACQUIRE Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Experiential Leadership Program 2026 cohorts, frontline healthcare professionals from diverse cadres tackled a wide range of challenges, with waiting times and patient flow, maternal, newborn and child health, and infection prevention and control emerging as the three most commonly addressed. The charts below highlight the eight most commonly addressed challenges and the diversity of healthcare cadres represented across the two cohorts.
What frontline teams set out to improve in 2026
Number of projects, eight most common challenges
Who is championing QI-PS at the frontline
841 people on 2026 teams, by cadre
- 39%Nurses and midwives
- 13%Doctors
- 6%Clinical officers
- 17%Laboratory and pharmacy
- 14%Allied health and records
- 11%Quality, admin and other roles
Meet a Healthcare Improvement Champion
From Malawi to ISQua Dublin and Beyond: Phunziro Rajabu
Meet Phunziro Rajabu, a QI-PS champion from Malawi whose work transformed incident reporting in a paediatric ICU from under-reporting to system learning, taking his improvement journey from the frontline to ISQua Dublin.
Africa Consortium for Quality Improvement Research in Frontline Healthcare
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