In brief
Our social enterprise summit was the first in a series of three considering reforms to local health systems and changes in power and alignments between local authorities, the third sector and the NHS.
Challenges and opportunities for social enterprises: how are NHS providers responding?
Rachael Addicott, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund, presents the early findings of our forthcoming report on social enterprise, with an insight into some of the benefits and challenges facing employee owned organisations.
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Nurturing new ‘spin out’ health care providers for success
Peter Stocks, Managing Director, Baxi Partnership, provides advice for new health care providers, including how to get started, barriers to success and the challenges of being an employee owner.
A social enterprise: providing real choice for women
Annie Francis gives a background to the work of Independent Midwives UK and shares her own experiences of the challenges facing social enterprise.
Can the social enterprise model provide the right bridge between co-operation and competition in the NHS?
Mo Girach, Special Advisor to the NHS Alliance, questions whether the social enterprise model can provide the right bridge between co-operation and competition in the NHS.
Social enterprise: can staff be protected and what are the legal implications of failure for employees?
Peter Edwards, Senior Partner at Capsticks LLP, looks at whether staff working in social enterprise can be protected and the legal implications of failure for employees.
More about the social enterprise summit
In November the government launched the roll out of ‘Rights to Provide’ across public services. Employers are now expected to accept suitable proposals from front line staff who want to ‘spin out’ and run their services as mutual organisations.
The ‘Right to Provide’ sets out to challenge traditional public sector structures, often risk-adverse and bound by bureaucracy, and unleash the potential for new ideas and innovation. Evidence shows that employees and communities who own or have a stake in their organisations are more productive and by their nature more responsive and accountable. More recently a Taskforce has been established to drive this reform at the centre of government.
However, the appetite amongst NHS staff for employee ownership is still unproven as concerns and uncertainties remain around pensions, the transfer of employment terms and conditions, vulnerability to take-over, and what happens when social enterprises fail.
Programme
Session one: Policy overview
- Welcome and introduction
Dr Anna Dixon, Director of Policy, The King's Fund - Keynote address: policy overview (Taskforce Update)
Julian Le Grand, Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, Trustee, The King's Fund, and Head of Mutuals Taskforce at the Cabinet Office - What are the challenges and opportunities for social enterprise?
Rachael Addicott, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King's Fund - Questions and discussion
Session two: Core challenges
- Welcome back
Patrick Burns, Executive Director, Employee Ownership Association - Can social enterprise be the bridge between cooperation and competition in the NHS?
Mo Girach, Special Advisor to the NHS Alliance (Social Enterprise, Mutuals, Co-operatives), Associate Consultant, The King's Fund, and Health Advisor to the New Economic Foundation - Can staff be protected and what are the legal implications of failure for employees?
Peter Edwards, Senior Partner, Capsticks LLP - How can social enterprises compete with the private sector?
Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Chief Executive, Turning Point - Questions and discussion
Session three: Good governance
- Welcome back
Allison Ogden-Newton, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise London - Inspiring clinician-led better value: bringing decision-making and service-design to the front line
Annie Francis, Midwife and Board Member, Independent Midwives UK - Nuturing new 'spin out' health care providers for success
Peter Stocks, Managing Director, Baxi Partnership
Jayne Mottershead, Founding Director of Operations, Spiral Health Community Interest Company - Questions and discussion
Session four: Expert panel
Question time
This interactive session was an opportunity for delegates to raise concerns, ask for advice and share experiences.
Chaired by:
- Dr Anna Dixon, Director of Policy, The King's Fund
Experts included:
- Nigel Edwards, Acting Chief Executive, NHS Confederation
- Peter Holbrook, Chief Executive, Social Enterprise Coalition
- Ali Parsa, Managing Partner, Circle Partnership
- Bob Ricketts, Director of Provider Policy, Department of Health
Summary and closing comments
Rachael Addicott, Senior Fellow, Policy, The King's Fund
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