NHS Yorkshire and Humber AHP Conference

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NHS Yorkshire and Humber AHP Conference

• AHP Leadership and the Reform Agenda
• Karen Middleton
• Chief Health Professions Officer
• Karen.middleton_at_dh.gsi.gov.uk

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Summary

• Why Reform and why at this pace
• An over view of the Reform Agenda
• Implications for services
• Leadership

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The world is changing
Rising consumer expectations
Diseases of modern lifestyles
We have to face up to tough decisions in stepping
up to future challenges
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The challenges to reform and delivery are wide
ranging

• Fundamental issues include
• ethical, including definitions of life, rights
  and responsibilities
• demographic, including age and cultural profile
  in an increasingly globalised world with
  changes in access to the rights of citizenship
• technological, including more personalised
  treatment
• anthropological, including behavioural,
  political and organisational

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All health and social care systems face a series
of common challenges going forward
Trend
Challenge
Changing lifestyles
Shift the centre of gravity from cutting and
curing to promoting and preventing
Ensure the right person sees you at the right
time even for urgent care
Rising expectations
Deliver greater choice and responsiveness,
especially to those who are not as vocal or
articulate
Make better use of resources for the benefits of
the public, patients and the taxpayer
Aging Baby Boomer Generation
Deliver safe, effective care, every time in every
place
Hospital and community services working together
to transform care for patients
Technological and medical revolutions driving
change
Valuing and rewarding productive staff, who are
our most valuable asset
Taking tough decisions about how we use
healthcare resources effectively and equitably
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Health Reform your interview answer!

• Demand-side reform choice and voice
• Supply- reform plurality of providers
• Transactional reforms
• Regulatory reforms

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Priorities for the health and social care system

• NHS
• 18 week wait
• Reduced hospital acquired infections
• Financial health
• Reduction in health inequalities and promotion of
  health and well-being
• Social Care
• More personalised care
• More choice
• Care closer to home

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Chief Health Professions Officers Priorities

• Access
• Competency-based career framework
• Improved data collection
• Leadership

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What does this all mean for leadership?

• Quality care is inclusive of value for money
• Talk outcomes not inputs
• Talk patients and the public not professions
• Align patient needs and wants with the evidence
  and the motivation and skills of clinicians
• Know who to influence and how
• Think care pathways not episodes of treatment
• Model the behaviour you expect of others
• Get organised!
• Be confident!

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Always finish with a picture!

• Janus!