Working with teams to build energy for change, resilience and wellbeing. Speaking and researching on spread & scale - up of innovation in the NHS. Commissioning research and evaluation. Managing the production of new knowledge publications on change Supporting the development and implementation of NHS Organisational Development strategy
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How deeply are you connected in your work? This article suggests that it is not about how many “followers” you have, but its quality of your connections that really matters. We can have the whizziest collaborative digital technology in the world, but what really matters is whether your connections will actually take action to help […]
Friday June 2, 9.30am BST How can we build a positive social culture in organisations, and how can this become a movement for change? June’s Edge Talk features the latest thinking on social movement from Australia using Jeremy Scrivens’ work on the emotional economy. Jeremy will share his rich insights into his cultural change model and […]
Women who become seriously ill in pregnancy; families of babies cared for in a neonatal unit; and women whose babies die in the second trimester often fall between the cracks of NHS services, due to the way services and pathways are set up. They become ‘Nobody’s Patient.’ April’s Edge Talk will give participants the opportunity […]
The Power of One, the Power of Many: Being a Leader in a Changing World Will YOU join our call to action at 3.30pm (GMT) today? Today, 15th March, is the second and final day of the Chief Nursing Officer’s Summit in Birmingham. There have been important and energetic discussions going on at the summit so […]
March Edge Talks: Friday 3 March, 9.30am GMT The DNA of Care: the importance of listening to staff stories Presented by Dr Karen Deeny, Staff Experience Programme Lead at NHS England (@karendeeny1), and Dr Pip Hardy (@PilgrimPip), Co-founder of the Patient Voices Programme (@PatientVoicesUK). The intertwined relationship between patient care and staff well-being has been likened […]
Collaborating Out Loud believes there are many ways we can create organisations that utilise everyone’s potential. Claire and Kev will share a way to help organisations begin to craft a different culture. A culture where everyone’s voice is heard and equal; where hierarchies are broken down; and where leaders can still provide direction, but in […]
Across England, Allied Health Professions have co-created a vision of how, with collective action, our nation will be different if all AHPs are used effectively in the health, social and wider care system. In England, AHPs comprise 12 professional groups; art therapists, drama therapists, music therapists, chiropodists/podiatrists, dietitians, occupational therapists, orthoptists, prosthetists and orthotists, paramedics, physiotherapists, […]
Identifying the needs of any given population and creating the capacity to manage is increasingly challenging. The origins of today’s problems can be traced back to a failure to recognise the pace of change and to respond quickly enough with new ideas and processes. Creating a clear understanding of what is happening provides a basis […]
On 7 September 2016, Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Cath Calderwood ran an hour long webinar to discuss Realistic Medicine. The session discussed the CMO annual report Realistic Medicine, the role of social media in engaging with a wider audience and attendees had the opportunity to raise questions relating to public health. To see more […]
The future of health is now. Take the time to watch this video to the end. Be amazed, heartened and understand the potential of data, digital and human connection. Dr Jack Kreindler takes our current reality, adds a human narrative and shows what is possible if we practice the art of future thinking. Please share […]
I am often asked how do I plan a health hack for my organisation. There are lots of ways to do this, but I really appreciate Katy Brownbill’s top tips to plan it like a party. Health hacks are an innovative way to solve those tricky, thorny problems so why not make the process fun! […]
This White Paper from NHS Improving Quality examines leading trends in change and transformation from multiple industries across the world. As leaders of health and care we operate in a world where change needs to happen at a faster rate and become more disruptive – our thinking and actions need to challenge the status quo, […]
We are delighted to make this important review of literature and practice on “energy for change” available to healthcare leaders. This is the first of a series of resources that we are sharing, which we hope will help leaders ignite and fan the flames of energy for change and thereby achieve their health and healthcare improvement goals more quickly, […]
Finding new ways to work sometimes requires us to look outside the healthcare context. Games motivate us – to cooperate within teams, to solve complex challenges, to strive for a personal best, to create, discover and explore. What if we could apply those same strategies to improving our health and care system?
We did it! With your help, we created an amazing 24 hour event where we heard from innovators across the globe on how they are improving health and care. NHS Transformathon brought the world together to share ideas, successes and lessons learnt – all to help improve the NHS. Speakers from as far away as […]
This article about the School for Health and Care Radicals (SHCR) describes the author’s experience of taking part in the School during 2015. Elissa explains how the SHCR worked and how it made a positive impact on her personal and professional life. It is heart-warming to see that it was such a positive experience for […]
Brief profile (Who are you? What do you do?) I am a pharmacist, recently started working at Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in London as a prescribing adviser. Before this role, I was working on an integrated healthcare record project as a Clinical Leadership (Darzi) Fellowship and as paediatric cardiac pharmacist, where I learnt a lot […]
The NHS recognises the need to find new ways of working and has recently set up a large-scale new programme of work to recruit 50 vanguard NHS organisations to test out new models of care around the country. This Directory was originally put together to support the vanguard sites – but it is a fantastic […]
Julian Stodd’s blog post provides a good example of developing a model of learning in public. This key skill of working out loud enables others to connect and offer their thoughts on the model at each stage of development through the hashtag. Follow this work through the ongoing posts of Julian’s blog and the hashtag […]
The Knowledge and Intelligence team from NHSIQ/NHS England scour over 250 sources each month to select and sign-post to the latest evidence in improvement science, leadership and large scale transformational change. Presented in a simple bibliographic style the aim is to save users considerable time in searching for new reports, papers and research on these […]
When looking at why we should make certain changes to improve health and care, personal stories will convince some people of the benefits of a change, whilst data and evidence will convince others. Co-production is the process where patients and health care professionals work together to develop services. There are many stories from both patients […]
As part of The Edge’s mission to bring innovative ideas to the world, what better way to inspire and develop people than to expose them to new ideas! With this in mind, the attached article lists 37 of the best websites to find free online training. We use sites like this in the production of […]
You’ve probably heard a lot about social media, and you’re probably even already even using it. But we know that many people still feel unsure about what they can and cannot share; when to join online conversations; and what social media can be useful for – both in our home and work lives. If you […]
The improvement science alert is a great resource for health and care which highlights key reports, research papers and opinion pieces in succinct bibliographic style. It supplements The Edge and is equally well curated to bring you additional resources on leadership, large scale transformational change and improvement science. Content is layered and clearly identified in […]
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