Benefits and Case for Investment

Northern Echo 29 Dec 2008

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 22:30

Northern Echo also picked up on this - an excellent outcome for Easington patients

Practical Commissioning Magazine December 2008 edition

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 22:17

PULSE Practical Commissioning Dec08 p21PULSE Practical Commissioning Dec08 p22PULSE Practical Commissioning Dec08 p23

3 scanned pages from Practical Commissioning (part of the PULSE group of publications)

Commissioning Innovation

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 17:00

I recently co-hosted a workshop bringing commissioners (mostly local authority and health) together with third sector (charity) providers to help each side understand how the other works.
The results were explosive!
The workshop demonstrated just how much . . . . .

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IES talk - Business Cases for Public Good

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 13:59

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IES (Institute for Employment Studies) does groundbreaking research into the impact of employment practice on delivery of effective public services, amongst other things (for a fuller explanation see their web site).
They run fortnightly lunchtime seminars on relevant issues and Tues 8 Oct 08 was the inaugural seminar for this academic year.
Minney.org presented on how to prepare and deliver a business case for public and statutory funding, illustrating some of the difficulties of assembling evidence, and of introducing new roles.

Practice-Based Commissioning - engaging GPs and the public

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 11:47

the problem PCTs have a requirement to get GP practices engaged with the commissioning process, for two reasons:

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BME Network development

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Sun, 10/05/2008 - 21:53

Mental health, or the empowering or disempowering of people in their homes; with their family, friends and co-workers; in their communities; and in the country they live in could be one of the biggest causes of ill health. It's said that the constant exposure to air-brushed beauties in magazines and impossibly perfect people in our soap opera "true to life" stories on Television causes people to be dissatisfied with their partners and dissatisfied with their lives.

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Passionate about - the Benefits Approach

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 08:16

I met some old college friends over the weekend, and realised the contrast between those following their passion, and those who'd accidentally ended up where they were. It made me wonder "am I following my dream?"
I'm passionate about the benefits work I do because i believe that it can make a difference.

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"10 High Impact Changes for Service Improvement and Delivery" - NHS Modernisation Agency

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 22:19

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"10 High Impact Changes" presaged the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement style of publications - documents written to be accessible and useable for the NHS at large and the public, which gave shortcuts to the achievement of service improvement. It was naturally followed by a whole spate of spin-off documents - "10 High Impact Changes for Primary Care", "10 High Impact Changes in Mental Health", etc

Gaining Clinical Engagement for Change

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Thu, 09/18/2008 - 21:48

The people who deliver care to patients are clinicians, so to create change we (service improvers) need to engage. Clinicians often know the problems, and with the right help will both develop solutions and implement them. Facilitated session supporting clinicians to talk about the engagement they require.

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Judicial System - If I were running the country

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 22:22

Scales of JusticeHow do we make the courts run more smoothly?  Cases take too long and are too expensive, mired in endless argument and counter-argument that are the hallmarks of our adversarial system.  What if we were to set time limits?  Would that work?

Well, let's try it.  Each side presents their best evidence, and if magistrate or jury isn't convinced, they can ask for more time from each side.  If it works for Cricket, that most venerable of British institutions, it should work for courts.  Who knows, they may even become spectator sports?

If I were running the country - encouraging business

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 09:33

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Minimum wage

Fantasy government - what would I do if I were in government?  Well how about reduce corporation tax, increase income tax, increase minimum wage and invest in job creation in the regions?  That would be a good start - create jobs where there are workers, then make sure that the right amount of tax is collected and at the same time reduce spend on benefits which are only used to increase profits of selfish organisations.

Would it work?  Have your say.

PwC Report on the Current State of Project Management

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44

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PwC Project Management ReportPwC found that successful companies are getting more mature in their project management ability.  This raises the game – successful companies have lower costs from fewer failed projects, and less successful companies have to work harder to catch up.  There are some important lessons to take this report for everyone – Read more…

Joy instead of tedium

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 21:04

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The Office

Every office has them - the tasks that have to be done that nobody likes doing.  Whether it's the audit, the wages, standard letters, whatever it is - someone has to do it and it feels like a waste of time and money.

Why should you care?

So you employ somebody, so why do you care about how tedious the task is? Well they are costing money, to do something that could be done far more effectively.

Learning from the Past

Submitted by HugoM on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 20:27

Evidence for service improvement

Many public service changes have little basis in evidence. Their success (or otherwise) does not appear to depend on how 'good' the policy itself is, but rather on how it has been implemented. This relies on staff attitudes and relationships. My research falls into a number of broad categories: finding out what is currently happening; what people think about it; and what people think it will mean.

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