Third annual NHS leadership and management summit
About this event
Summit news
Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP will give the closing keynote address at the summit.
About this event
The King’s Fund held its initial leadership and management summit in 2011 at which we published our report The future of leadership and management in the NHS: no more heroes. This was followed by our 2012 summit and a second report Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS: Together we can.
This third annual NHS leadership and management summit will build on the themes and findings of previous reports and showcase the very best of leadership and change management that currently exists within the NHS and internationally. It will provide the opportunity to continue the debate on the leadership implications of the Francis Inquiry and importantly will explore what we really mean by leadership for quality. The summit will encompass the following five themes:
- role of clinical leaders, especially at ward level
- role of boards
- role of patients as leaders
- leadership for culture change
- leadership across systems of care.
This established event is a must attend for clinical and managerial leaders from within the NHS and for associated health and social care leaders who are keen to improve quality and care outcomes across the health economy.
Testimonial:
‘This does feel like a fairly unique event in terms of the status and calibre of the speakers. I feel I have a lot of information and ideas to take back to inform my work and my organisation.’
- Linda Crofts, Sheffield Teaching Hospital
2012 delegate
Programme
8.15am-9.15am: Breakfast workshop
Making clinical leadership work: Enabling clinicians to deliver better health outcomes
This workshop will be delivered by the summit sponsors Hay Group. Find out more on the workshops tab above.
9am: Registration, refreshments, networking
Session one: Leadership for quality and improvement
9.45am: Welcome and introduction
Nigel Edwards, Senior Fellow, Policy and Leadership Development, The King's Fund
Summary of The King's Fund's third annual review of leadership in the NHS
Nicola Hartley, Director of Leadership, The King's Fund
Response to the review of leadership in the NHS
- Dean Royles, Chief Executive, NHS Employers
- Jan Sobieraj, Managing Director, NHS Leadership Academy
- Ailsa Bosworth, Chief Executive, National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, and Joint Chair, Rheumatology Futures Group Project
10.50am: Refreshment break, exhibition and networking
Session two: Enhancing quality through better leadership
Delegates will have the choice of attending plenary A or B.
A: Enabling clinical leadership
11.20am: Welcome back
Vijaya Nath, Assistant Director, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
- Influencing professional nursing practice
Jeanette Ives Erickson, Chief Nurse and Senior Vice President for Patient Care Services, Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor, Harvard Medical School - Putting clinical leadership at the heart of quality improvement
Professor Ian Cumming OBE, Chief Executive, Health Education England - Questions and discussion
B: Leadership for culture change
11.20am: Welcome back
Katy Steward, Assistant Director, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
- Why values, culture and professionalism matter for quality improvement
Sir Donald Irvine, Chairman, Picker Institute Europe, past President, General Medical Council and Vice President, The Patients Assocaition - What we know about the impact of culture on staff and patient experience
Professor Jill Maben, Director, National Nursing Research Unit, King’s College London - Questions and discussion
12.20pm: Buffet lunch and networking
12.40pm-1.10pm: Lunchtime workshop
The development of RFID to improve patient safety and quality in the operating theatre
Mark Capel, IT Director, Synergy Health
This workshop will be delivered by the summit sponsors Synergy Health.
Session three: How patients can support quality improvement
1.20pm: Welcome back
Professor David Haslam, CBE, Chair, NICE
Role of the patient in improving quality
Havi Carel, Patient, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England and Author of the book Illness
How can organisations support patients to lead quality improvement?
Dr Jocelyn Cornwell, Director, Point of Care programme, The King's Fund
Panel discussion: How can organisations support patients to lead quality improvement?
- Professor David Haslam, CBE, Chair, NICE
- Havi Carel, Patient, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of the West of England and Author of the book Illness
- Dr Jocelyn Cornwell, Director, Point of Care programme, The King’s Fund
Session four: Thought leadership
2.15-3.15pm
Delegates will have the choice to attend one of the following streams. Each stream will explore a different theme of leadership in the NHS in more detail. Find out more information on the workshops tab above.
A. Clinical leaders: leaders on the front line
Facilitated by Liz Saunders, Senior Consultant, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
B. Leading beyond governance: a case study
Facilitated by Katy Steward, Assistant Director, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
C. The voluntary sector and volunteering: engaging communities and improving patient experience
Facilitated by Lisa Weaks, Third Sector Programme Manager, The King's Fund
D. Creating culture change in organisations
Facilitated by Belinda Weir, Senior Consultant, Leadership Development, and Matthew Rice, Senior Consultant, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
E. Systems leadership: harnessing the power of a distributed leadership approach
Facilitated by Sarah Goodson, Senior Consultant, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
F. Medical leadership, the 'unspoken culture': lessons post-Francis
Facilitated by Vijaya Nath, Assistant Director, Leadership, The King's Fund
3.15pm: Refreshment break and networking
Session five: Leadership for high-performance
3.45pm: Welcome back
Nicola Hartley, Director, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
Keynote address
Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Health
Panel discussion: what kind of leadership is required going forward from Francis?
- Professor Richard Bohmer, International Visiting Fellow, The King's Fund
- further panelists to be confirmed
Closing comments
Nicola Hartley, Director of Leadership, The King's Fund
5pm: Close of summit
Drinks reception
5-6pm
Following the summit all attendees are welcome to stay for drinks and networking.
Workshops
Breakfast workshop
8.15-9.15am
Making clinical leadership work: Enabling clinicians to deliver better health outcomes
NHS reforms position leadership by doctors as one of the main enablers for change. The ambition is to develop genuinely clinically-led organisations. However, putting new clinical leadership roles and structures in practice can be challenging. Not only do they require doctors to step into bigger and broader roles than ever before, but they challenge organisations to re-think established ways of working.
In this one-hour seminar, Hay Group draws on experience of working with hundreds of clinical leaders and their organisations to provide some practical insights into what's really important in getting clinical leadership working including:
- how you can create doable clinical leadership roles that get the best from your leaders
- which leadership styles and behaviours support the best clinical leaders to be successful and where to focus development activity
- common pitfalls and issues to pay attention to if you are to develop a genuinely clinically-led organisation.
This will be an interactive session that combines insights with the opportunity to raise questions and explore issues with peers.
This workshop will be delivered by the summit sponsors Hay Group.
Lunchtime workshop
12.40-1.10pm
The development of RFID to improve patient safety and quality in the operating theatre
Mark Capel, IT Director, Synergy Health
This workshop will be delivered by the summit sponsors Synergy Health.
Session four breakouts on thought leadership
2.15-3.15pm
A: Clinical leaders: leaders on the front line
Facilitated by: Liz Saunders, Senior Consultant, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
This workshop will draw on the expertise of delegates and use an 'open space' methodology to help unearth ideas, questions and solutions around harnessing the energy and capacity of frontline clinical leaders. Delegates attending this workshop can expect to share their views, learn from others and learn a new technique for working with groups in their organisations.
B: Leading beyond governance: a case study
Facilitated by: Katy Steward, Assistant Director, Leadership Development, The King's Fund and Professor David Welbourn, Deputy Director, Centre for Health Enterprise, Visiting Professor in Health Systems Management, Cass Business School
'Is Mid-Staffs simply a failure of governance or was there also a failure by the board of leadership?'
To answer this in anything other than a trite way, we need to lift the lid of both leadership and governance to get to the heart of what really counts. We can treat governance and leadership as the chicken and the egg, and wrap ourselves in knots. Or we can explore what can be achieved through effective governance, and ask how strong leadership contributes to safe and high-quality outcomes.
This session explores the complex relationship between these two board-level functions.
The board failed to fulfil its statutory duty and this session explores what can be learnt about risk management in the light of the Robert Francis inquiry, using a case study. We will invite you to reflect on how boards can assure themselves that there is a culture of care on and behind the front line of their organisations, and to think about the potential for the board to shape culture. Boards, wittingly or otherwise, fulfil a leadership role: setting the tone for what matters through the objectives set for their organisation and the discussions they have.
Topics of risk management, governance and leadership are each vulnerable to become so process-focused that the board becomes anaesthetised to what really counts. Just how can boards deploy these important tools in a vibrant, energising way that reinforces the right culture for safe, high-quality, compassionate care?
This workshop is designed to give participants the opportunity to reflect on risk management, how boards can shape culture, and their own leadership behaviours.
C: The voluntary sector and volunteering – engaging communities and improving patient experience
Facilitated by Lisa Weaks, Third Sector Programme Manager, The King's Fund
Dr David Naylor, Associate, The King's Fund
An estimated three million people volunteer in health and social care, adding significant value to the workforce of paid professionals. Volunteers can play a key role in improving patient experience, building stronger relationships between services and communities, and providing care in a way that improves quality and is compassionate. The voluntary and community sector hosts many of the volunteers and also has an important role in engaging local communities and representing patients.
There are huge opportunities for volunteers and the voluntary sector to help transform health and social care services and bring about real improvements for patients and the wider public. However many opportunities are missed and at a time of constraint it is right to consider what leaders in the health and social care system can do to work effectively with volunteers and communities.
This workshop will look at the role of volunteers and community organisations and examine recent research by The King's Fund into volunteering. Then by drawing on The King's Fund's work with community-based leaders, explore what is now required from leaders to maximise impact.
D: Creating culture change in organisations: sharing experience, exploring the territory
Facilitated by Belinda Weir, Senior Consultant, Leadership Development, The King's Fund and Matthew Rice, Senior Consultant, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
If changing cultures in organisations is challenging, one reason is that there is no well-defined route map to success, no clear set of directions and sometimes a sense that we are entering uncharted territory. Still, there are examples, both in and outside the health sector, of leaders who have implemented successful change programmes to move their organisations towards healthier cultures, and there is real value in hearing their stories, investigating their approaches and asking 'could it work here?'
This workshop does not offer answers to leaders exploring the conundrum of culture change. It will encourage you to ask questions, to be curious and to share your own experiences as leaders in changing cultures.
We hope that the work we do in this session will help us to begin to map some of the important staging posts on the road to cultural shift.
E: Systems leadership: harnessing the power of a distributed leadership approach
Facilitated by Sarah Goodson, Senior Consultant, Leadership Development, The King's Fund, and David Fillingham CBE, Visiting Fellow, The King's Fund
In 2011 The King's Fund's report, 'The future of leadership and management in the NHS: No more heroes' had systems/distributed leadership as a key recommendation:
'The NHS needs leadership and management, not just from the board to the ward – essential and central though that is – but across NHS boundaries into social care, local government, the voluntary sector and the wide variety of other agencies with which it interacts and without whose co-operation it will not achieve its primary objectives.'
In this session we will take stock of systems/distributed leadership exploring:
- the behaviours needed by system leaders
- the key ingredients needed to enable CEOs across health and social care to work successfully as a system
- the benefits of this approach to improving health, improving quality and ensuring best use of resources.
We will hear from examples of best practice in the North West and explore opportunities to expand this approach in an interactive workshop.
F: Medical leadership, 'the unspoken culture': lessons post-Francis
Facilitated by Vijaya Nath, Assistant Director, Leadership, The King's Fund
This workshop focuses on the future post-Francis, particularly for the medical workforce and doctors at all levels in primary and secondary care. It will examine the findings from our recent stakeholder event, which featured contributions from more than 60 participants, including emerging clinical fellows, consultants, clinical directors, GPs and medical directors from all over the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.
The workshop will give you the opportunity to explore these findings and understand the future developmental needs for medical leaders post-Francis.
Speakers
Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP
Secretary of State for Health
Jeremy Hunt was appointed Secretary of State for Health in September 2012.
He was elected as MP for South West Surrey in May 2005. In May 2010 Jeremy was appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. He was formerly Shadow Culture Secretary (2007–2010) and Shadow Minister for Disabled People (2005–2007). Before his election as an MP, Mr Hunt ran his own educational publishing business, Hotcourses. He also set up a charity to help AIDS orphans in Africa in which he continues to play an active role.
Professor Richard Bohmer
International Visiting Fellow, The King's Fund
Read Richard's biography here.
Ailsa Bosworth
Chief Executive, National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society, and Joint Chair, Rheumatology Futures Group Project
Havi Carel
Patient, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, 
University of the West of England and author of the book Illness
Dr Havi Carel is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UWE, Bristol and also teaches at Bristol Medical School. She is currently a British Academy Fellow, writing on a monograph for Oxford University Press, provisionally entitled Phenomenology of Illness. Her research examines the experience of illness and of receiving healthcare. She has written on the embodied experience of illness, wellbeing within illness and patient-physician communication in the Lancet, BMJ, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Philosophia and in edited collections.
She is the author of Illness (Acumen 2008), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. She is the editor of Health, Illness and Disease (Acumen 2012). She also uses film in teaching and has recently published an edited volume entitled New Takes in Film-Philosophy.
In 2009-11 Havi led an AHRC-funded project on the concepts of health, illness and disease and in 2011-12 she was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for a project entitled The Lived Experience of Illness. She currently holds a British Academy Fellowship.
Professor Ian Cumming OBE
Chief Executive, Health Education England
Ian started his career in the NHS as a Biomedical Scientist and later worked in research into coagulation disorders in the Haemophilia Centre in Manchester, England before moving into general management in the late 1980s.
Ian has held a variety of NHS senior management posts, including Operating Theatre Manager at a large teaching hospital and Assistant Chief Executive to the former North West Regional Health Authority, before spending the last 16 years in CEO roles in the NHS. When Ian was first appointed as CEO in 1995, he was the youngest ever Chief Executive in the NHS.
In 2006 after almost 12 years as the CEO of a group of teaching hospitals, Ian was appointed CEO of NHS North Lancashire, a NHS commissioning body.
From 2009 until 2011, Ian was CEO of NHS West Midlands - one of ten regional Strategic Health Authorities for the NHS in England. On taking up this role Ian also became a member of the national Management Board for the NHS in England. NHS West Midlands looked after the health needs of a population of approximately 5.5million and expended almost £10bn per annum.
Before taking up his role at Health Education England, Ian led the National Quality Board, a multi-stakeholder Board working to champion quality throughout the NHS.
Dr Jocelyn Cornwell
Director, The Point of Care programme, The King's Fund
Nigel Edwards
Senior Fellow, Policy and Leadership Development, The King's Fund
Nicola Hartley
Director, Leadership Development, The King's Fund
Professor David Haslam CBE
Chair Designate, National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Sir Donald Irvine CBE
Chairman, Picker Institute Europe, past President,
General 
Medical Council and Vice President,
The Patients Assocaition
Sir Donald, a retired family doctor, is currently board chairman of the health care charity Picker Institute Europe, and a trustee of Picker Institute Inc in the US. Picker promotes patient-centred health care through the assessment of patient experience, research, and education. He is also Honorary Professor, School of Health in the University of Durham, a Vice President of the Patients’ Association, and President of Age UK Northumbria.
Sir Donald was President of the General Medical Council from 1995 to 2001, a turbulent period in British medicine. Modernising professional regulation and promoting ideas about professionalism in medicine in tune with the needs and expectations of patients and the public today were the central themes of his Presidency. Earlier, he was responsible for the initial development of Good Medical Practice, the code of professional practice that is basis for medical practice and medical education in the UK and several Commonwealth countries today. In 1998 he initiated the development of revalidation (relicensure and recertification) which came into effect in 2012 for all doctors practising in the UK.
In his practising years Sir Donald was an active teacher and writer on medical education and quality, especially in general practice. One of the founders of vocational training for general practice, he has long linked medical education with unfolding ideas about professionalism in medicine.
Professor Jill Maben
Director, National Nursing Research Unit, King’s College London
Dean Royles
Chief Executive, NHS Employers
Dean Royles was appointed as director for NHS Employers in December 2010. Previous roles include director of workforce and education at NHS North West; director of HR and communications at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and deputy director of workforce for the NHS at the Department of Health, where he was responsible for developing a national HR strategy for the NHS.
Dean was the first HR director at East Midlands Ambulance Service following its creation in 1999. He has also worked at an acute hospital and in a community and mental health trust having started his HR career in industrial relations in a local authority.
Dean has an MSc in Human Resources. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Newcastle Business School, chair of the board of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a chartered fellow for the same organisation. In 2011 Dean became the first male business champion against domestic violence and a national ambassador for the Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network. He is a regular conference speaker, published in a number of journals and provides expert opinion in the national media. He was voted HR's Most Influential Practitioner in 2012.
Jan Sobieraj
Managing Director, NHS Leadership Academy
Jan Sobieraj was appointed Managing Director of the NHS Leadership Academy shortly after its launch in April 2012.
The Academy’s vision is to be a centre of excellence and beacon of good practice on leadership development. It is a strategic intervention for the NHS, designed to make sure the health system develops the leadership it needs to meet the challenges it will face in the coming years.
Jan was appointed after having served in the post of Managing Director for NHS and Social Care Workforce at the Department of Health from July 2011.
In 2011 he was seconded from NHS Sheffield where he was Chief Executive from 2006 to the Department of Health as Director of Leadership.
He has been a Chief Executive in different NHS organisations for 13 years, including taking Barnsley Hospital to a first NHS Foundation Trust.
Jan is a Honorary Professor of De Montfort University, a visiting Senior Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University as well as a Governor of the Health Foundation and has held a number of senior roles on national bodies and local organisations. Over the last 30 years of his management career, Jan has been passionate about working in partnership with leaders, staff, patients and trade unions to improve healthcare.
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For more information please download the document below or contact:
Robert Hayman
r.hayman@kingsfund.org.uk
Events Officer, The King's Fund
+44 (0)207 307 2513
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