Health On The Line
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Fresh perspectives on the healthcare challenges of our time and ways to confront them. Fortnightly interviews with movers and shakers making waves across health and care.
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Nov 21, 2023
Prof Sir Chris Ham: We need a culture of commitment to improvement, not compliance
The NHS has renewed its focus on improvement, with integrated care systems charged with becoming ‘self-improving systems’ across England. While a necessary challenge, no other country in the world has undertaken improvement at this scale. In this episode, Matthew Taylor sits down with Prof Sir Chris Ham to unpack the system model of improvement – what it means, where it is working well and how it can shift the dial. It draws out key lessons from Sir Chris’ report, commissioned by the NHS Confederation, Health Foundation and Q community, on how to improve health and care at scale.
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Nov 8, 2023
Lord Markham CBE: NHS capital, innovation and economic regeneration
Are changes needed to the NHS’s capital programme? In a first for Health on the Line, Matthew Taylor puts the question directly to the minister in charge. Tune is as Lord Markham CBE shares his views on the New Hospitals Programme, capital funding cycles and approvals processes. Get his take on the NHS’s role in economic regeneration, investment in out-of-hospital care and how to tackle the ‘innovation paradox’.
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Oct 18, 2023
The data dilemma: Does data help or hinder patient care in mental health?
In June 2023, the final report from a minister-commissioned review was released; the report followed a rapid review into data on mental health inpatient settings. In this episode Dr Geraldine Strathdee, chair of the review, talks to Mental Health Network chief executive Sean Duggan about its key findings and recommendations. Delve into the detail of how data across the system can enable people to make better decisions to improve lives and care.
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Oct 4, 2023
Is health beyond the hospital the key to alleviating system pressures?
From the NHS Confederation's Health Beyond the Hospital conference, Matthew Taylor hosts a discussion on out-of-hospital care and how novel collaborative approaches can lead to unexpected benefits.
Coinciding with the launch of our report Unlocking the Power of Health Beyond the Hospital, Matthew is joined by Daniel Elkeles, chief executive of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Karen Jackson, chief executive of Locala Community Partnerships CIC, Miriam Deakin, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers and James Sanderson, director of community health services and personalised care at NHS England.
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Jul 12, 2023
Isabel Hardman: We go too far with the NHS as a religion analogy
Author and journalist Isabel Hardman discusses how from its inception the NHS has always had a unique political undercurrent running alongside the day-to-day healthcare challenges. On the launch of her new book on the history of the NHS, she reveals how successive governments and health ministers have approached the challenge of dealing with one of the UK’s most beloved institutions.
Isabel’s new is book is “Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles that made our NHS”
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Jun 28, 2023
Integrated care systems: one year on
A year on from their establishment as statutory organisations, how are integrated care systems (ICSs) getting on? In this episode, Matthew Taylor puts the question to three system leaders, exploring what's working well, what remains to be solved and the difference system working is making locally – to patients, communities and staff. Recorded at NHS ConfedExpo just ahead of the government’s response to the Hewitt review, the conversation explores the issues of accountability and autonomy and where next for systems.
Hear from Amanda Sullivan, chief executive of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, Kevin Lavery, chief executive of Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB and Patrick Vernon, interim chair of Birmingham and Solihull ICB.
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Jun 7, 2023
Dr Raghib Ali: We need a cross-society effort to improve health
What will it take to crack the prevention nut? In this episode, Matthew Taylor puts the question to Dr Raghib Ali, chief medical officer and joint chief investigator of the pioneering Our Future Health programme. Discover all about the ambitious research programme, why preventative healthcare is mission critical and why data plays an important role in reimagining healthcare. Plus, get his take on why a more nuanced approach to health inequalities is key.
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May 24, 2023
Dr Neil Modha: We've tailored our workforce to the needs of our population
Do we truly appreciate what is possible when primary care entrepreneurship is unlocked? In this episode, Matthew Taylor goes behind the scenes at Thistlemoor Medical Practice, a pioneering general practice in Peterborough led by Dr Neil Modha. Serving an inner-city population of close to 30,000, the practice has radically evolved its approach to meet local needs. Discover how the practice and wider primary care and system partners are working together to improve population health, reimagine the workforce, redesign pathways and adopt a more proactive approach to care. With the much anticipated workforce plan on the horizon, Dr Modha considers what it must enable and how, on the eve of the Fuller stocktake’s first anniversary, he is putting the principles into reality.
Dr Modha is also clinical director of the Central Thistlemoor PCN, chair of Greater Peterborough Network GP Federation and co-chair of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICS North Place Board.
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May 11, 2023
Dr Elliot Street: Reimagining surgical training
For clinician turned entrepreneur Dr Elliot Street, elite sports training ignited an idea about how to turn surgical training on its head. In this episode, the award-winning clinician, co-founder and chief executive of Inovus Medical explores why surgical training methods were due an overhaul and his efforts to lead the charge. Hear his take on the barriers and enablers to innovation in the NHS, his lessons learned so far and practical advice for budding innovators.
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Apr 26, 2023
Baroness Dambisa Moyo: Health and economic growth – a vital connection
Is economic growth really the engine for better health? In this episode, Matthew Taylor sits down with acclaimed global economist Baroness Dambisa Moyo to talk growth, productivity and the post-pandemic world. Hear her take on the economic legacy of COVID-19, lessons for the future and why growth is vital to solving healthcare challenges. Tap into her insights on leadership in turbulent times and how boards can work better in a chaotic world.
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Apr 4, 2023
Patricia Hewitt: There’s a real chance to tackle health differently this time
For Patricia Hewitt, integrated care systems (ICSs) are the best opportunity we have to transform the health and care system this generation. But realising their potential requires fundamental change – this has been Patricia’s focus over the past few months. On 4 April, the former health secretary and integrated care board chair released the final report from her review into the oversight and governance of ICSs. In this episode, she gets candid about what the review found and why radical proposals feature among her recommendations. Hear her take on autonomy, prevention and health inequalities, regulation, funding and how to make self-improving systems.
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Mar 22, 2023
The digital transformation gambit: simpler, faster, safer services?
Can the NHS really grasp the digital transformation opportunity? In this episode, Matthew Taylor sits down with Tom Loosemore and Deborah El-Sayed to explore how integrated care boards can capitalise on the digital revolution. Get their take on pitfalls to avoid, principles to apply and why digital is more than just technology. Tune in as they debate skills, leadership, strategy and data.
This podcast forms part of our Digital ICS programme delivered in partnership with NHS Providers and Public Digital, and supported by Health Education England and NHS England. The Digital ICS programme is a free support offer for integrated care boards and integrated care system leaders and offers a range of free resources, events and leadership sessions focused exclusively on the role of the board in leading the digital agenda across systems.
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Mar 8, 2023
Miriam Gonzalez Durantez: We still do not have equal opportunities
Is there a difference between equity and equality – and does it matter? In this episode, Matthew Taylor puts the question to Miriam González Durántez, esteemed international trade lawyer and passionate advocate of women's rights and the education of girls. In this International Women’s Day special, Miriam gets candid about equal opportunities, diversity on boards and the economics of care. She also shares two simple ways to effect change, how leaders can move beyond lip service to equity, and why she hopes her viral #ThisLittleGirlIsMe campaign will make a lasting difference.
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Feb 23, 2023
Daniel Elkeles: The biggest barrier we have is thinking in silos
With the NHS often characterised as being trapped in a permacrisis, what can be done to shift the dial? In this episode, Matthew Taylor sits down with Daniel Elkeles, chief executive of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, to talk improvements in the urgent and emergency care pathway, shifting the narrative on primary care and busting the barriers holding the health and care system back. With industrial action taking a toll, Daniel, who leads the world’s largest ambulance service, sheds light on the untold impact of strikes and the effect on long-term innovation and recovery.
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Feb 8, 2023
Dame Kate Bingham: The regulator moved from being a policeman to an air traffic controller.
In our latest Health on the Line podcast, Matthew talks to Dame Kate Bingham, Chair of the UK Vaccination taskforce and author of ‘The Long Shot’ her personal account of one of the most successful procurement examples of our time - the development of the Covid-19 vaccine, showing how the effective application of science can be critical to solving many of the world’s problems.
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Jan 25, 2023
Patricia Hewitt: Influencing the way ICSs work and how the centre works with them
In this special edition, Matthew talks to Patricia Hewitt, integrated care board chair and former health secretary, about her review into how the oversight and governance of integrated care systems (ICSs) can best enable them to succeed. With the review exploring how to balance greater autonomy and robust accountability, Patricia shares her hopes for what can be achieved and the culture change needed to enable ICSs to flourish.
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Jan 11, 2023
Andy Bell & Marsha McAdam - No Wrong Door: a vision for mental health, autism and learning disability services in 2032
In this episode of Health on the Line, Matthew talks to Andy Bell and Marsha McAdam about No Wrong Door: a vision for mental health, autism and learning disability services in 2032.
Andy is interim CEO at the Centre for Mental Health, whilst Marsha is a mental health influencer, an ambassador for many organisations, including the Centre for Mental Health, and vice chair of NHS Confederation's Mental Health Network.
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Dec 21, 2022
Joan Saddler & Lena Samuels: Supporting healthcare organisations to eliminate racism
In the latest episode of Health on the Line, Matthew talks to Joan Saddler OBE, director of partnerships and equality at NHS Confederation about ‘Commit, understand, act’ the Confederation’s recently published anti-racism strategy, and about why tackling racism improves conditions for all communities. He also hears from Lena Samuels, Chair of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ICS, about the impact of racism on the frontline and why the pursuit of genuine inclusion can be a joyful process.
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Nov 22, 2022
Suzanne Mason: Corridor medicine could help with ambulance handover delays
In our latest Health on the Line podcast, Matthew talks to Professor Sue Mason, University of Sheffield School of Health and Related research about the changes needed to Urgent and Emergency Care ahead of NHS England’s review, including returning to ‘corridor medicine’ in Emergency Departments to help with ambulance handover delays and that the resources that go in to NHS 111 does not reduce demand on emergency departments and the resources could be used in a much more effective way. Sue has written an NHS Confederation report to be published shortly setting out recommendations to improve Urgent and Emergency Care.
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Oct 26, 2022
Adam Doyle: ICSs aren’t just about holding people to account but helping people to change
CEO for Sussex Integrated Care Board Adam Doyle is a former physiotherapist and Clinical Commissioning Group leader. He talks to Matthew about the difference that working collaboratively as integrated care systems makes, the need to lean into what other local services are doing and learn from others, and the wide variety of tools that leaders need in order to lead successfully.
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Oct 12, 2022
Isabel Hardman: The NHS is being failed by not reforming social care
Journalist Isabel Hardman talks to Matthew Taylor about the current state of politics, the NHS and what the health service can realistically deliver over the next few months and beyond. The author also shares her impressions of the new health and social care secretary’s approach, her own experiences of mental health, and the book she is writing on the history of the NHS.
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Sep 28, 2022
Joe Rafferty: Use population health as a driving device for population equality
Prof Joe Rafferty on the power of population health management, a decade of NHS leadership and managing risk this winter and beyond.
28 September 2022
With more and more insights on the extent of health inequalities across the country, how can systems turn knowledge into change? Population health management is powerful tool argues Prof Joe Rafferty CBE, as he sits down with Matthew Taylor to explore the difference the approach is making in the North West. As chief executive of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust since 2012, Joe also discusses the benefits of leading an organisation over a long period of time and how to recognise, share and mitigate risk at system level.
This activity was delivered as part of the NHS Confederation and Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Collaborative Working Agreement. Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK have had no involvement or influence in the content of this podcast.
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Aug 3, 2022
General Sir Gordon Messenger: The workforce deserves the best leadership they can have.
What did Sir Gordon really think? In our latest Health on the Line podcast, General Sir Gordon Messenger discusses with Matthew his recent review of NHS leadership and his recommendations, his hopes for implementing those reforms and the need for a strong and continual statement from leadership that a focus on leadership and workforce is utterly central to better patient outcomes.
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Jul 20, 2022
Tim Oliver: No organisation within the whole ecosystem can do it on its own
Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) Chair for Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System and Leader of Surrey County Council Tim Oliver tells Matthew that integrated systems are all about equal partnerships, how joint appointments help avoid turf wars and how the ICP holds the key to delivering a strategy for addressing the wider determinants of health.
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Jun 22, 2022
NHS ConfedExpo special edition: What should the refreshed Long Term Plan look like?
What does the health and care system need from the Long Term Plan refresh? In a special episode recorded at NHS ConfedExpo, Matthew Taylor takes soundings from system leaders, exploring their hopes and fears for updates to the plan. Hear from Simon Whitehouse, chief executive designate for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB; Louise Ansari, national director of Healthwatch England; and Omotajo Kufeji, a GP partner and clinical director for The Bridge PCN, Milton Keynes, as they consider what needs to be different and how it can resonate with system partners, staff and service users.
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May 25, 2022
Dr Nikki Kanani: Understand what primary care looks like in your system
What does the future hold for primary care? NHS England and NHS Improvement’s medical director for primary care Dr Nikki Kanani sits down with Matthew Taylor to discuss multidisciplinary teams in primary care, lessons from the pandemic, the Fuller Stocktake and shifting further towards a population health management approach.
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May 11, 2022
Gregor Henderson: Mental health is just part of what it means to be human.
In the latest Health on the Line episode, Gregor Henderson, former director of Mental Health for Public Health England and strategic adviser to on-line platform Togetherall, talks to Matthew about the challenges of digital innovation in mental health, the link between health inequalities and mental health and why the need to invest in the wider determinants of mental health is vital.
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Apr 20, 2022
Prof Donna Hall: Let's think longer term about how we build resilient communities.
In the latest Health on the Line episode, Professor Donna Hall, architect of the well-known ‘Wigan deal’ and Chair of Bolton NHS Foundation Trust talks to Matthew Taylor about the importance of community engagement in systems as part of our Integration and Innovation in Action series. She talks about the need to have different conversations with people to build resilient communities and resilient individuals, and the work she is involved in in investing in the first 1,000 days of life as a key point of intervention. She also talks about the need for integrated care systems to be clear about what they are going to do, and to ask themselves the honest question, how integrated are we?
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Mar 31, 2022
Susanna Stanford: Patient safety - understanding good intent should be the starting point for conversation
This episode covers the important issue of patient safety. Matthew Taylor talks to campaigner Susanna Stanford about how a traumatic personal experience of the health service changed her. It led her to use what happened to talk with clinicians and medical students about the patient perspective when things might go wrong. She has used her experience positively to encourage a more open culture in the health service where clinicians can support one another to help prevent errors, and to deal with them better when they occur.
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Mar 16, 2022
Sir Richard Leese: COVID-19 has made us realise all parts of the system are equally important.
In the latest Health on the Line episode, Matthew Taylor speaks to Sir Richard Leese, chair designate of Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board, about provider collaboratives and tough decisions, lessons the system has learned from COVID-19, and the extent to which central government 'gets' devolution.
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Mar 2, 2022
Charlotte Augst: The NHS can't do it alone, it needs to invest in partnerships.
In the latest Health on the Line episode, Matthew speaks to Charlotte Augst, CEO of National Voices, the leading coalition of health and social care charities in England with more than 190 members covering a diverse range of health conditions and communities. Charlotte talks pandemic, living with Covid, health inequalities and a new National Voices initiative to link people with lived experience of the health service with health professionals to help inform their approach to providing health and care.
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Feb 9, 2022
Professor Kiran Patel: Apply social value judgements to tackle inequalities.
Our latest Health on the Line podcast episode is with Confed member Professor Kiran Patel, Chief Medical Officer, Deputy CEO and Consultant cardiologist at University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He talks with Matthew about population health as part of our Integration and Innovation in Action series, his passion for addressing health inequalities and how he believes elective recovery and health inequalities can be bed fellows. He also says there needs to be the right balance between localism and nationalism when discussing the role of the centre, but that the health service is at an exciting stage where it can really explore the benefits of digital delivery.
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Jan 26, 2022
Dame Jackie Daniel: ‘Rinse and repeat’ won’t wash for dealing with the backlog
Newcastle Hospitals received the UK’s first coronavirus patients in January 2020. Two years on and with the NHS dealing with the biggest backlog it has ever faced, the trust’s chief executive, Dame Jackie Daniel, explores why bolder thinking is needed to tackle spiralling waiting lists. Sitting down with Matthew Taylor, Dame Jackie gets candid about the challenges of her role, striking the right balance between central and local leadership, and why the health sector needs to ‘lean in’ when working with local authorities. Speaking shortly after the debut of the Channel 4 documentary Geordie Hospital, she shares why letting the cameras in was so important.
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Jan 19, 2022
Uday Bose: Medicine is incredibly important, but it's the ecosystem around the patient that you need to address.
Vaccines have proved a vital lifeline in the fightback against COVID-19, with our collective safety largely reliant on the efficacy of vaccines developed by pharmaceuticals companies. For the pharmaceutical sector, as in the healthcare sector, innovation has been the byword for the pandemic response. But what have been the lessons? And how might the NHS and pharmaceutical sector work in partnership to confront pressing healthcare challenges?
Uday Bose, country managing director and head of human Pharma at Boehringer Ingelheim UK & Ireland, sits down with Matthew Taylor to consider the issues. Uday, who also chairs the European Medicines Group, also explores how pharmaceuticals are increasingly working with patients and taking account of patient experience.
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Dec 15, 2021
David Oliver: If we really want to focus on prevention, we've got to put our money where our mouth is
At times of immense pressure, how can health and care services work together to create capacity outside of hospitals? In this episode, we’re joined by Dr David Oliver, an expert in geriatric medicine, who reflects on different approaches, delayed discharges and the impact of dwindling places in care homes. Speaking as concerns mount over the Omicron variant, he sheds light on life at the frontline and the long-term problems the pandemic has cast under the spotlight.
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Dec 1, 2021
Dr Kathy McLean: Accountability needs to be to the people that we serve.
Dr Kathy McLean, chair designate of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System, talks system working in the wake of the pandemic, the point of difference between integrated care boards and integrated care systems, and the role of the centre in system success. The former NHS Improvement medical director and chief operating officer also explores the shift in attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community and the progress yet to be made.
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Nov 17, 2021
Professor Sandeep Ranote: Young people do not want to be known as the generation lost in lockdown.
In this episode, Professor Sandeep Ranote, consultant paediatric psychiatrist and mental health lead for Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, talks clinical leadership, system working and how the pandemic has affected young people.
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Nov 3, 2021
Professor Sir Chris Ham: My vision is that ICSs should feel different to any organisation we've had before.
In this episode, Professor Sir Chris Ham, chair of the Coventry and Warwickshire Health and Care Partnership and co-chair of the NHS Assembly, shares his view on the state of health and social care, the prospects for integrated care systems, the vital role of primary care and why he believes it’s time for a moratorium on further organisational change in the NHS.
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Oct 20, 2021
Professor Trish Greenhalgh: Before we talk about remote, I would like to talk about staffing.
In this episode, Professor Trish Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, provides a scientific take on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on primary care and scientific innovation. The world-renowned professor and trained GP also offers her view on virtual care, vaccine inequity and why innovation happens at times of turbulence. The discussion forms part of our new Integration in Action series which reflects on different aspects of integrated care making a difference on the ground.
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Oct 6, 2021
Fiona Adamson: We are well placed to innovate but we need courage and experience
Fiona Adamson, Chair of the PCN Federation Network and also Chief Executive of Hartlepool & Stockton Health GP Federation, talks about the role of GP Federations, why she thinks the vaccine programme was so successful and the continuing pressures on primary care.
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Sep 21, 2021
Matthew Kershaw: When we talk about a backlog it’s patients, it’s people who are waiting!
In this episode Matthew Kershaw, chief executive of Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, talks to Matthew Taylor about the challenges of elective recovery in south-west London. Exploring the steps the area is taking, the place-based leader for health shares why, at the height of the pandemic, local partners took the radical decision to set up a hospital within a hospital to continue elective care. The discussion forms part of our new Integration in Action series, a collection of webinars, reports and podcasts that each month reflects a different aspect of integrated care making a difference on the ground.
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Sep 8, 2021
Ifti Majid: To be more representative means doing things differently
Does culture eat strategy for breakfast? In this episode, Matthew Taylor sits down with Ifti Majid, chief executive of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and co-chair of the NHS Confederation’s BME Leadership Network, to discuss organisational culture in times of crisis, the characteristics of effective boards, supporting staff through the pandemic and why 4,000 handwritten notes have made a massive impact.
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Aug 24, 2021
Rob Webster: I'd love us to recognise that people are our biggest asset.
In the first episode of Health on the Line, Matthew Taylor talks to ICS Lead for West Yorkshire and Harrogate, and HSJ Chief Executive of the Year, Rob Webster, about his view on system working, on the NHS workforce being its best asset, and how experiences within his own family have taught him important lessons about leadership and being open about our experiences.
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Aug 13, 2021
Health On The Line: Teaser
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