About us

A dedicated improvement and development team that is deployed by NHS East Midlands to support Mental Health, Offender Healthcare and Children & Families. We are funded by the National Health Service (NHS) and Department of Health (DH).

To enable the most effective impact, the team works with all aspects of the delivery system, this means in practice that we are out and about across the region, not based in an office. Some refer to this type of role as a ‘fieldworker’. The role we occupy draws on a consultancy model and the team that we have deploy a range of skills from improvement methods, organisational development, change management techniques and project management. We also have team members who have specific policy based knowledge and experience of care delivery. This provides a unique combination of skills and knowledge to support improvement.

We also have a number of posts that hold locality responsibilities and have been put in place to provide an individual and personal contact point at the sub-regional level and support local projects.
Resources we have access to are used to fund our team and distributed to programmes and through these into the delivery system to enable local and regional projects to be undertaken in line with agreed priorities for change and improvement. Through this process we maximise the release of staff to undertake projects, build temporary capacity until the system embeds change and allow stakeholders to take control of what skills they need to buy in to deliver the desired improvements.

This combination of a core team and funded projects has provided a flexible and adaptive approach while maintaining a continuous presence with a speed of response that is at times required. It meets two of our aims to be relevant and visible.

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We also believe as a dedicated improvement resource, embedded in the Strategic Health Authortiy (SHA) we bring a number of advantages over other options for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and providers to seek assistance and expertise on change management approaches;

• Intimate understanding of the workings of health, social care and offender healthcare systems of the East Midlands environment as our team comes from the environment you work in
• Access to a broad and informed knowledge base and extensive networks in and outside the region
• Expertise and familiarisation with a range of improvement methods, organisational development and user/carer/professional engagement skills
• As part of the SHA, commitment to the values of NHS East Midlands and consistent with the vision and strategy for the NHS, your interests and values are ours too
• Appreciation of the policies relevant to healthcare and ability to support with implementation

We are focused on 3 critical work streams

• Children and maternity, including mental health
• Offender Healthcare
• Mental health, with Joint funded programs with social care for dementia and personal budgets

Each work stream will have a number of priority programmes, in line with the needs of the NHS. They are agreed with key senior stakeholders and continuously reviewed so that we can take account of the changing needs and new priorities that emerge throughout the year. More information on the work streams can be found below or on our website: www.eastmids.org.uk

To find out more about the team follow this link: http://www.eastmids.org.uk/about/our-team/