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…
Category: Insights
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,…
Establishing Integrated Care Systems – Three key factors for NHS service change in England
Planning a service change programme is hard at any time. Differing partner priorities, competing stakeholder expectations, and challenging political environments are just a few of the many variables that demand our attention when we’ve got that blank Gantt in front of us. It’s no wonder, then, that the first things we reach for are those…
The year ahead for Stand
It’s a new year full of new possibilities and I decided to ask our directors, Caroline Latta and Paul Parsons, what they have planned for Stand in the year ahead. Here’s what they had to say. Caroline: The way we’ve planned has changed since we started. At the beginning there was lots of next-week and…
Starting with Stand
Hi, I’m Callum and I’m the communications and engagement intern at Stand. I’m straight out of university and this is my first experience of a professional work environment. My lovely colleagues have asked me to write about my first impressions and the kind of things that I’ve been involved in since joining the company. I…
Timely payments
We recently got some feedback that made us think about why we do some things the way we do them.
Guidance on merging CCGs
Early last year NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) updated an update to guidance on merging CCGs that had been in place for three years. The updated guidance took account of the vision set out in the Long Term Plan for streamlined commissioning arrangements that align with sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) and integrated care system (ICS) footprints.
Making digital engagement work for you
The global pandemic has created a new norm in terms of shifting involvement activity to digital methods and it’s important to recognise that a large majority of ‘traditional’ face to face consultation activity can be replicated online.
