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 …