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Systems Leadership for Beginners: what it is, how it works, and why it helps

Fri, 27 May 2016

Debbie Sorkin

Systems Leadership is about how you lead across boundaries – departmental, organisational or sector. It’s how you lead when you’re not in charge, and you need to influence others rather than pull a management lever. It describes the way you need to work when you face large, complex, difficult and seemingly intractable problems; where you need to juggle multiple uncertainties; where no one person or organisation can find or organise the solution on their own; where everyone is grappling with how to make resources meet demand which is outstripping them; and where the way forward therefore lies in involving as many people’s energies, ideas, talents and expertise as possible.

Tue, 24 May 2016

Lynda Thomas

In October 2015, Nationwide Building Society in association with Macmillan Cancer Support launched a service designed to help customers manage their money following a cancer diagnosis. Lynda Thomas, chief executive at Macmillan explains the financial impact of cancer and how the charity works with its corporate partners to deliver value for people affected by cancer.

Thu, 19 May 2016

Isabella Goldie

Mental Health Awareness Week gives us the opportunity to ignite a national debate around the importance of supporting good mental health. This year, the theme focusses on the importance of ‘Relationships’ in their many forms. After looking at the global body of evidence, the Mental Health Foundation found striking evidence showing the impact of relationships on our health and wellbeing to be comparable to well established risk factors such as smoking.

Wed, 11 May 2016

Toby Scott

This year's Dying Matters Awareness Week runs from May 9-15, and our theme is The Big Conversation. And the Big Conversation is the one we'd like everybody to have about their own death and what they want to happen before, during and after it.

Wed, 27 April 2016

Nic Higham

We’ve recently launched a new website for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) called CAMHeleon.org.

Tue, 26 April 2016

Jeremy Taylor

This week, yet again, hospital doctors are out on strike. This latest stage in the dispute between the BMA and the Government marks a significant escalation, with junior doctors for the first time withdrawing emergency cover.

Will patients be at risk? The best answer seems to be - possibly a bit more than normal. The NHS has been in contingency planning mode for weeks to plug the anticipated gaps. There will still be emergency cover: but it will be provided by consultants and others. Hospital trusts are as prepared as they can be, though the doctors’ regulator the General Medical Council has said it believes that some trusts will struggle to cope.

Thu, 21 April 2016

Don Redding

Being a GP is the most important job in Britain, says Simon Stevens; one of the most difficult jobs in medicine, says Sir Bruce Keogh; and no longer tolerable or sustainable, say many GPs.

Since ‘integration’ was established as a cross-system goal in 2013 we have predicted that the reform of primary care would rise up the agenda.

Now it has – with the publication of NHS England’s ‘GP Forward View’ and a simultaneous inquiry report by the health select committee.

In this blog I look at how their proposals measure up, but I do so through a particular lens. I am not asking whether the initiatives and recommendations are welcome - many clearly are. But, do they point the way to a better model for person centred care?

Wed, 20 April 2016

Alex Phillips

Alex Phillips, Campaigns and Parliamentary Officer at Terrence Higgins Trust, writes about the review into the blood donations ban on former and current sex workers.

Thu, 14 April 2016

Michael Bourke

The ‘Untapped Potential’ report published yesterday, 13 April 2016, calls upon charities to ‘work together: aggregate and simplify’. In a climate where the voluntary sector is under additional scrutiny, and resources are limited, we need to stand together and meet common goals convincingly and efficiently.

Fri, 8 April 2016

Don Redding

Dear NHS commissioner,

The Five Year Forward View and the recent NHS Planning Guidance have asked you to plan for new ways of working with the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS).

Blogs

Systems Leadership for Beginners: what it is, how it works, and why it helps

The value of long term partnerships with businesses for voluntary organisations

Relationships: The forgotten foundation of good mental health

Dying Matters Awareness Week: Why 'The Big Conversation' matters

Inspiring Child and Adolescent Mental Health ward staff to show their true colours

Let patients help resolve the junior doctor dispute

Plugging holes in the crumbling plasterwork of GP practices

Bringing our healthcare system into the 21st century, one review at a time

A forward look: how to get involved over the coming months

Seven things you should know about the voluntary and community sector

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