Virtual Event: People, not Workforce
Management in Medicine Workshop
Saturday 27 June 2020 10:30 to 12:00Speakers: |
John Drew, Director of Staff Experience and Engagement at NHS England and Improvement |
*This seminar was held online via Zoom.*
The NHS is one of the world’s largest employers. Healthcare is a people business. And yet NHS strategy, policy and performance tends to have little to say about people. Why is that?
Last year the NHS published the Interim People Plan, with the bold aspiration to make the NHS ‘The Best Place to Work’, improve the leadership culture and close the staffing gap which the NHS faces.
This session set out the key themes of the People Plan as a basis for discussion about what it will take, whether these are still the right things to focus on in a post-COVID world and what we can each do to contribute to making it a reality.
You can view the slides from the seminar.
About the speaker:
John has recently been appointed as Director of Staff Experience and Engagement at NHS England and Improvement. The focus of this role will be to make the NHS ‘the best place to work’, a key theme described in the interim People Plan, linked strongly to ‘improving leadership culture’. Prior to this John was Director of Improvement and Culture at OUH, a role which included responsibility for People, Communication, Improvement and Analytics. Prior to joining the NHS, John led McKinsey’s work with NHS hospitals in the UK as well as other international health systems. He trained originally as an engineer and worked in manufacturing industry before entering consultancy.
He is passionate about supporting people to bring about improvements in quality and productivity, as well as in how teams function and how organisations are led and run. He is increasingly of the view that the core assumptions we hold – and are often taught – about how organisations are run and what constitutes ‘efficiency’ need to be challenged and renewed. ‘Reinventing Organisations’ is recommended reading for insights into why this is becoming urgent and how it might be done.
The Management in Medicine Programme has been established by the Fellows of Green Templeton College to help clinicians in training and postgraduate students with an interest in healthcare management develop their management and leadership skills.
For more information please contact naomi.benson@gtc.ox.ac.uk.
