Thursday 12 June 2014

News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 11th June 2014



Well done LGA! They have created another map to help identify collaborative working, but this time around Health and Wellbeing. Through the SSA Collaborative Leadership programme we are being drawn into working in the Health Sector. We are meeting great people, working in very complex, collaborative systems-wide environments. But many are stumbling their way to success by attempting to lead hierarchically because they have not been skilled in collaborative leadership. Please spend a few seconds looking at what the map has to offer. It may be worth just knowing it’s there for the future…

 

Health and Wellbeing Boards priorities across England - Map

This map is designed to support health and wellbeing boards and provide a practical tool that stimulates collaboration. Themes and summaries have been developed drawing on the headline priorities identified in the Public Health England Health Profile 2013 summary for each area. Read more >>>

 

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Local Government

 

After the report last week on the terrible treatment of the elderly in a care home in Crawley, Essex County Council brings us good news of “relationship-centred care”. They report how, among many things, they have created “…positive changes in the relationship between Essex County Council and the county’s care home sector driven by …a focus on quality improvement rather than monitoring compliance, effective leadership and a support network for managers”.

Many of the ideas in the report are worth stealing with pride and applying to your context…

 

Commissioning relationship-centred care in Essex: an evaluation

How can local authority commissioners work with the care home sector to ensure older people consistently receive high-quality, relationship-centred care? This report reviews the improvements Essex County Council made to the commissioning of its care home services for older people. Read more >>>

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Fire & Rescue Service

 

When teaching the Shared Service Practitioner programme for CFOA, we have heard a number of stories of the co-location of emergency services which have worked well, and ones that have not. The common theme of the ones that have not is that the focus has been on the plans for the building (the deal) and not on how the different cultures will live together in the building (the relationships).

Drawing on academic reviews, and other evidence, we teach that in any form of multi-organisational collaborative working, probably
75% of the leaders’ time should be spent on the relationships and shared vision, and only 25% on the deal. Hopefully this new shared emergency service centre will take that into account…

 

£8m for new Wrexham emergency services centre

The creation of a new joint Ambulance and Fire Services Resource Centre for Wrexham is moving forward with a £8.4 million capital funding boost from the Welsh Government, Health Minister Mark Drakeford announced today. Read more >>>




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Friday 6 June 2014

News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 4th June 2014



It’s been a quiet week on the news front, but big on the job front. If you are looking for either consultancy or PAYE vacancies there are nine below.

But let’s look at some of the news that bubbled up this week…

 

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Local Government

Here is some recommended reading. This high level business case for four councils in the Oxfordshire area will provide you with a guide to laying out your high level business case. What I really like is the exit strategy statements as we don’t often come across them…

Four councils set out plans for ‘most radical joint working’ in local government

Four councils are proposing to launch a jointly-owned local authority company to transform the way they run services and save more than £55m over the next ten years. Read more >>>

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Central Government Shared Services – in Australia (!)

What have the Aussies ever taught us? (…apart from cricket, Fosters and a sunshine lifestyle…). Actually they have taught us very little about shared services. In fact their state based shared services (losses of $300mAus) have been almost as disastrous as the UK central government shared service (losses of £1bn+). So, as a result of the failure of their state based centralisation of services, they have decided to centralise everything even more tightly (doh!)…

Govt lays groundwork for shared services, job cuts

The Department of Finance has laid out its draft vision for a streamlined and efficient government back office, in a plan that will set the ball rolling for federal government shared services and further reductions in the public sector workforce. Read more >>>

Our new Collaborative Leadership Across Communities toolkit, is focused on community engagement and therefore this Northern Ireland piece of work should be of interest to you, if you have been on the Collaborative Leadership Across Communities seminar

‘Sharing’ on the agenda in Greater Whitewell

A survey carried out as part of our Shared Communities Programme has highlighted a desire for ‘sharing’ in the Greater Whitewell area. Read more >>>


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