Gulp, is that an ULP?

Helen: I am insatiably curious with a wonderlust for exploration – okay, so it’s got me into a few scrapes and interesting positions, but on the whole it has led to personal growth and a few tales of adventure to regale and amuse people with over dinner. What I have noticed though is that I …

International Women’s Day 2021 #EverydayCourage

I never in a million years expected that Helen and I would have been co-hosting an ‘’unconference’ at an event hosted by Prerana Issar, the NHS chief people officer for England and Samantha Allen, chief executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and chair of the Health and Care Womens Leaders Network. The globally known …

Join us in forging our own path whatever our footwear of choice

This post is a little different from our previous ones as we are inviting you to join us live on 8th March at a free online event to celebrate this years International’s Women’s day https://www.everydaycourageiwd21.co.uk We are excited to be facilitating a discussion on the subject of ‘Pioneering’ a subject very close to our hearts. …

Participatory co-design leads to redesign

Helen In this blog post I am going to share the approach that we have taken to transforming secondary care outpatient (also known as ‘planned care’) follow-up in our local health system. We are experiencing increasing demands on our services, with an aging population often presenting with complex co-morbidities and the impact from the wider …

The knowing-doing gap

Curiosity and a sense on incredulity occurred when I first read the statistics that essentially said that it takes on average 17 years before evidence of what works makes it into practice and that those that do are merely a slither from the tip of the iceberg – so many great things, things with potential …

I’m a Firewalker a twisted Firewalker

Guest Blogger: Emma Bewes – an awesomely brave change leader Photo by Joshua Newton on Unsplash If I asked you to walk on fire how many of you would actually go ‘hell yeah?” Not many, in fact most people would (did and still do) say are you mad?. What is it that stops most of …

Trial and much error!

Helen and Chris: In this blog post we are starting to share with you the lessons that we learnt around the flexible use of communication styles, dialogue and messages utilised, through trial and much error, to engage multi-disciplinary, multi-organisational and multi-community groups of people to buy into our vision and commit to join us in …

Part two ‘Passing a Movement Forward’

Helen: Starting from the assertion that “The NHS belongs to the people” https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-nhs-constitution-for-england/the-nhs-constitution-for-england I was intrigued as to how we could harness the deeply ingrained and valued principles of the NHS Constitution into the ‘health as a social movement’ reality espoused by Simon Stevens in 2014.  Clearly some understanding about human psychology was needed to …

Passing a Movement Forward

Helen Davies-Cox It was back in 2014 that I first came across an interview with the then new Chief Executive of NHS England ‘Simon Steven’s’. When asked about the challenges ahead for the health of the population and how the NHS needs to respond, he referred to the need to create a  “social movement for …

You are very welcome.

This our first foray into the blogging world, where we intend to describe and demonstrate what it takes to architect and deliver change that makes a real difference to people, organisations, communities and most importantly you. The blogs will be mainly written by us, Helen or Chris, but we will occasionally publish guest blogs from …