The arts of influencing healthcare: how to make change happen
Management in Medicine: shaping healthcare
Saturday 8 May 2027 09:45 to 14:00Speakers: |
Dr Rebecca Payne, Academic GP, Director, North Wales Centre for Primary Care Research, Bangor University; GP |
Location: |
EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College |
About the event
Creating meaningful change in health systems can be surprisingly difficult. This interactive workshop explores how to create real change within healthcare systems, and how clinicians and other healthcare professionals can influence people, organisations, policy and practice.
Drawing on real-world examples across clinical leadership, regulation, professional organisations, research and policy, this workshop will consider how to identify who really has influence, understand competing priorities, build coalitions, frame an argument effectively, and recognise when evidence alone is not enough. Exploring the less visible aspects of influencing: relationships, timing, credibility, organisational politics and understanding what matters to the people whose behaviour or decisions are being influenced
About the speaker
Dr Rebecca Payne is a GP and clinical academic with experience spanning frontline clinical practice, healthcare regulation, professional leadership, research and health policy. She is Director of the North Wales Centre for Primary Care Research at Bangor University and has previously served as Chair of RCGP Wales, National Professional Adviser for Urgent Primary Care at the Care Quality Commission, and Clinical Director for Unscheduled Primary Care in Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. She chairs NICE’s Quality Standards Committee and led the quality and safety themes in the Oxford University Remote by Default 2 study.
Her research focuses on how healthcare services, technologies and innovations can be implemented safely and effectively in real-world settings. Throughout her clinical and academic career, she has worked (with varying levels of success) to translate evidence into changes in policy and practice, bringing together clinicians, patients, researchers, NHS organisations, regulators and policymakers.
Register
Registration will open in April.
About the Management in Medicine Programme
The Management in Medicine Programme was developed to foster management and leadership skills for health and care systems in early-career professionals. Attendance is open to medical students, doctors in training, postgraduate students and others with an interest in the interaction between healthcare professionals, systems and management.
For more information, or to be added to the mailing list, please email mim@gtc.ox.ac.uk
