Provider collaboratives: Improving equitably - Creating an enabling environment to improve equitably
A Provider collaboratives: Improving equitably peer learning event, held on Wednesday 18 October 2023.
Chair:
- Jenny Reindorp, interim director of funded programmes, NHS Providers.
Panellists:
- Prof Graham Martin, director of research, The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute.
- Alice Forsythe, executive partner, Virginia Mason Institute.
- Dr Ailsa Brotherton, executive director of improvement research and Innovation at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Listen to Graham discuss what provider collaboratives can learn from existing models of collaboration. The importance of data in underpinning collaborative approaches. Plus, the benefit of giving collaboration time if we want to see long-lasting sustainable changes in practice.
Listen to Alice talk about the journey Virginia Mason Institute have taken to embed equity into their organisational culture and behaviours including some of the tools. She also discusses the importance of psychological safety in allowing staff to feel comfortable to have difficult conversations and offers a reflection on how these tools can be incorporated in your context.
Listen to Ailsa discuss how her trust has developed shared improvement approaches in their provider collaborative including some of the frameworks they use. Also, the role of leadership in driving the vision of the provider collaborative as the engine room for improvement.
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