NHS and Healthcare Blogs

The value of Clinical Networks in the delivery of high-quality, integrated care has long been recognised. But all too often, turning potential into tangible impact has been a significant challenge.

Jayne Rooke, Programme Manager at Arden & GEM, and Alec Price-Forbes, Chief Clinical Information Officer at Coventry and Warwickshire ICS, share their experiences and learning points from a programme involving three Integrated Care Systems.

Learning and Development Manager, Dr David Mathew, considers that role that hybrid learning can play in helping NHS leaders face the challenges of building teams and managing people effectively in a new world of hybrid working.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead, Usman Malik, shares his thoughts on the potential role reverse mentoring can play in an organisation’s journey to tackle inequality in the workplace.

Through PCNs, we have the potential to shift the dial on inequality for the first time in decades. In this blog, our Healthcare Solutions Director, Martin Charters, considers how PCNs can turn theory into practice and maximise the impact of new initiatives through shared learning.

With the deadline by which practices must join a primary care network (PCN) just a day away. Chris Davies, our transformation partner, asks if you are ready for the changes this will bring.

There is a great deal of willingness to share best practice across the NHS. Strangely, however, this approach hasn’t always translated into adoption at scale, despite a long history of trying a variety of methods to support learning.

In adopting new ways of working across organisational and regional footprints, it’s important to recognise and use those transformation skills already at our disposal as we work together to deliver change at pace and scale, says Chris Davies, NHS Arden & GEM Commissioning Support Unit.