OD Partnerships Network
The OD Partnerships Network is a unique subscription network of health care Chief Executives that is solely devoted to supporting and enhancing the effectiveness of its members. The Network is completely independent and totally accountable to its members. To promote the level of familiarity and trust necessary to offer effective support and to promote genuine partnership working, membership is limited to a maximum of 40 CEOs from both the NHS and independent sectors. For further information go to About the Network click here. For information about joining the Network click here, contact nicholanightingale@odpn.co.uk or one of the Network members.
CEO Policy Seminar – Operating in an Environment of Diverse Leadership – 23 April 2008 – London
This Seminar was held on 23 April, 2008. The question it examined was this – in UK healthcare there is now a more diverse environment within which influences are exerted, from a diffuse variety of differently empowered sources. Taken altogether these power sources might significantly constrain the scope for local healthcare leadership. Or do they?
The OD Partnerships 2008 International Seminar
June 1st to 6th 2008, Montreal, Canada
The 2008 International Seminar will be the ninth annual meeting of health care Chief Executive members of the OD Partnerships Network. Previous seminars have taken place in six different countries on three continents and have benefited from the participation of CEOs and other delegates from the U.K., Germany, Spain, the U.S.A., Australia and Hong Kong. Typically, about 25-30 CEOs[1] participate in the seminar and the week is devoted to debating and exploring a theme of interest in all of the countries represented. On six occasions, the proceedings of the seminar have been published.
In 2008, the seminar will take place in Montreal, Canada and it is hoped that in addition to CEOs from the countries above, we will be joined by two or three CEOs from Canada. The theme of the seminar will be the contribution of the ‘third sector’ in health care. The choice of this theme grew out of a contribution made on this topic to the 2007 International Seminar, by Professor Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal. As this contribution was very favourably received by participants at the 2007 seminar, we are very fortunate to be able to report that Professor Mintzberg has agreed to participate in the 2008 seminar.
Overview
ODP Network – Facilitated Peer Support
One distinctive feature of Network membership is its offer of free of charge facilitated peer support. Whether you call these learning sets, sub-networks, or co-coaching, the Network becomes a valuable source of collective support and personal development otherwise difficult to access through the day-to-day contacts experienced by CEOs. We now want to raise our game in these peer support arrangements. There are several different directions we could go, not necessarily mutually exclusive. Our aim is to arrange what you want. Many Network members access individual support and coaching from core staff, and other sources, on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ or informal basis.
13 November 2007, 9 January 2008 and 12 March 2008.
RCGP Leadership Programme
The Royal College of General Practitioners recently invited some fifty organisations to tender to design and deliver their national leadership programme. ODPN formed a collaboration with the Peninsular Medical School and the University of Exeter Centre for Leadership Studies to tender, and was successful in being awarded the contract, against stiff competition from a large field that included the King's Fund.
The programme will support and develop up to 35 GPs who are judged to be future leaders of the profession. This will be of interest and benefit to Network members, both directly and indirectly, largely because of the potential for GPs to prompt changes in the NHS in a way that no other group is able.
A Short and Partial History
Caught up in the throes of the current System Reform agenda it is possible to lose sight of both its purpose and its historical context.
In a paper entitled ‘A short and partial history of reform of the NHS in England’ Valerie Iles gives a personal view of why all the major reform efforts of the last 25 years have failed to deliver the anticipated benefits and why that is likely to happen again.
While the OD Partnerships Network Team recognise this is an incomplete analysis, we believe it draws attention to significant issues that receive insufficient attention at policy levels. We are therefore actively soliciting your responses with the aim of prompting a wider debate by publishing both the paper and a summary of views. To read the paper click here, to email a response click here.
Member visits
Comparative Learning between the UK and Barcelona
In April 2007 the Network organised two events linking the UK and Barcelona. In the first, held in Barcelona, 40 people (clinicians, risk management specialists and managers) participated in a Workshop on the two themes of clinical audit and patient safety. The second involved 18 clinicians and managers from Barcelona visiting Belfast City Health and Social Care Trust. Its focus was on Chronic Disease Management. Both visits yielded interesting comparisons and a number of ‘points to ponder’ were taken away for further consideration. These events are part of three Barcelona hospitals’ membership of the Network, creating opportunities for them to identify potential improvements that they would wish to promote in their system. Reports of both events are available.
Case study Resources & organisation 150307.doc
Glasgow re clinical audit.ppt
Pt Safty wkshp Barca report Website v 040507.doc
Risk mgmt in UK 250207.ppt
Case study 1 Cons Anaes Dr A 150307.doc
CASE STUDY 2 clin prctice audit.doc
Belfast visit report Website v 030507.doc
Comments to New Post Holders
Last year, 2005/06 was populated with the usual rich picture of different working relationships and processes in a range of NHS and other health and social care organisations; what are some of the learning points that are transferable to the next few years of working in a continuing changing world? Joan Durose, Network Core Staff, would welcome any comments on this paper, and her messages are particularly relevant to those people who will be taking up leadership roles in the newly formed NHS organisations.
The Business Case for Quality
On May 15th, Gordon Best, a member of the Network’s Core Staff, and Rick Norling, Chief Executive of the Network’s U.S. member Premier Inc., contributed to Monitor’s Annual Conference, Achieving Excellence. Their presentation described how the Network is attempting to codify learning from the U.S. not-for-profit hospital sector in order to bring this to bear on some of the challenges facing senior managers of acute Trusts in the ‘new’ NHS. The presentation also described how the not-for- profit systems that make up the Premier Alliance are reducing costs and increasing their income through a greater emphasis on service quality.