And I am back! The run up to Christmas is always a busy time, however adding several work events and moving house in to the mix has taken it to a whole other level this year – so I apologise for my absence! Time to catch up on what has been happening…
The 4th of December 2018 was the third NHS England collaborative event for the Personalised Care Programme. I packed a bag and a short drive, 4 trains and a taxi ride later I was in Bristol 🙂 As always the content of the event was really fab with a real focus on hearing from demonstrator sites as to their successes. Being able to hear how sites across the country are implementing the delivery of personalised care and the journey that they have been on to get to the point they are at, is really reassuring and encouraging. I sometimes feel like there is so much we could do and want to do, but actually turning that into impactful change can be slow and frustrating. I am not necessarily the most patient person, I will admit… however when aspiring to culture change; I need to remember this cannot happen overnight and will take time! 4 areas of personalised care implementation were discussed; children’s services, frailty, secondary care and primary care and I can honestly say I came away feeling inspired and with fire ignited in my belly again.
NHS Horizons facilitated the afternoon session with the topic ‘Energy for Change’. Based on my earlier comments about the frustration that can come with change not occurring quick enough (as my impatient self would like) the session really enabled me to consider how my own energy for change may differ from others around me and the areas that we perhaps need to focus on to drive this change forward. In my opinion, I believe that we need to work more on a vision for the future, shared by all across the STP which will then increase spiritual energy – but alongside this we need to improve psychological energy, resulting in the workforce feeling trusted and safe to work in a different way.
**Interesting blog from Rosanna Hunt on the model and its role of leadership, which also includes this picture from @HorizonsNHS
https://nhshorizons.passle.net/post/102f6wr/coaching-nhs-leaders-to-build-energy-for-change
Key learning this week:
- Sometimes you need to reflect back over a longer period of time to really see the value and impact of the work you have been doing
Idea 17: use the Energy for Change model with services to help implement change and analyse where we need to invest time and resource to ensure meaningful effective time – this can be something as simple as a shared lunch or everyone having a one page profile; think outside the box!
Achievements this week:
- Successfully made it to Bristol and back
- Managed to keep my head above water in the chaos of this week!
- Successful prepping for our Personalised Care Programme Event
Plans for next week:
I write this blog for the previous week (or very behind this week!) so we have already held our Personalised Care Event which I CANNOT WAIT to tell you all about next week!
Personalised Care Mission 