Moving from options development into a public consultation period is one of the most challenging aspects for any strategic change programme. Stand’s director, Caroline Latta, shares four key considerations to have in mind when planning your consultation timeline. Picture the scene. You’ve worked hard with clinical teams, commissioners, stakeholders, patients and partners, and there’s strong…
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Let’s ban the C-word
You know how it is. You’ve worked hard to get your change programme off to a good start. Scope agreed. Objectives endorsed. Budget approved. Clinicians are actively engaged and you’re getting a great response to your patient involvement activity. Everything appears to be swimming along nicely. Then, at an open engagement event, in response to…
NHSEI launches new service change handbook
In a week of heart wrenching stories from Ukraine filling our social feeds, a little nugget of NHSEI (NHS England and NHS Improvement) news was enough to bring a little light into my day. That news? The NHSEI system transformation team launched a new interactive handbook for service change. Granted, the list of people this…
The wider learnings of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout
The COVID-19 vaccination programme has been the runaway success of the UK’s response to the pandemic. Stand were asked to support the North East and North Cumbria’s COVID-19 Vaccination Programme, providing strategic communication and involvement advice and operational support to the vaccination programme’s leadership team. The mission – to vaccinate as many people as possible,…
