Leeds ACTS! (Academic Collaboration for the Third Sector) is an exciting partnership programme which aims to drive collaboration between the third sector and Higher Education Institutions in the City. It aims to match and apply relevant expertise within the Universities to shared goals with the third sector.
This partnership has been initiated by Third Sector Leeds, [...]

As health organisations focus on what they will do to improve culture in the wake of Francis, there are three traps to avoid

Murray Anderson-Wallace and Suzanne Shale

Wednesday 27 March 2013 09.38 GMT

We must not mourn the NHS of the past. Photograph: W. Eugene Smith/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

 
In the tsunami of speculation and comment [...]

CIHM’s Darzi Fellows have set up a new viral project – ‘Thank You’ cards – get yours from www.thanku4.co.uk and thank your colleagues.
“The aim of the ThankU4 campaign is very simple: to improve staff morale within the NHS.
We are a group of doctors/health professionals who believe passionately in the values of the NHS. We recognise the [...]

The public inquiry into the failings at Stafford Hospital identifies shameful care for patients and their families. Our work at the University of Leeds has demonstrated that where clinicians and managers have productive relationships health care is significantly improved. This relationship is predicated on patient’s care being at the heart of every decision.
Our work on [...]

As the new Secretary of State for Health reviews his portfolio he would do well to review the progress of the Government’s NHS reforms against some key Conservative values that could be of great benefit.
Firstly, choice: as the reforms stand they do not offer the service user, the general public, choice. Choice for many service [...]

Professor of work and organisation at Leeds University Business School and CIHM Associate, Ian Kirkpatrick, writes in The Guardian today, March 1, 2011.
The article appears below and can be accessed on-line at The Guardian’s site http://www.guardian.co.uk/public-leaders-network/2011/mar/01/hidden-costs-nhs-free-market
The assumption that the free-market knows best lies at the heart of the government’s health reforms, but we can’t be [...]

October 15, 2010
NHS still in the dark about White Paper
The recent publication of the White Paper ‘Liberating the NHS’ has been seen by some as likely to herald the most significant reform of the NHS since its formation in 1948.
Certainly, debate about the future shape and direction of the health service is at fever-pitch.
But what [...]

Find out more about the Darzi fellows programme here.

New research undertaken by CIHM Associate Jeanne Hardacre and colleagues highlights the crucial importance of engagement and relationship skills in leading NHS improvement.
The study, funded by The Health Foundation, and undertaken by research network ORCNi, shows that enabling and facilitating others to make their contribution is central to leading improvement. As quality improvement work becomes [...]

A new paper published by CIHM sets out three key steps health professionals need to take to foster innovation in their organisations.
The paper, Innovation and Public Services: Insights from Evolution, argues that NHS professionals should think about innovation in terms of evolution. There is no search for ‘best’, but a series of small changes and [...]