North East Leading Improvement for Health and Wellbeing Programme

More information on the NE LIHWB programme, including details of the 2012 programme can be found here.

A Community of Practice is being established, accessed via the leadership group. Log in or register to join the group, access resources and join the discussion.

The School of Public Health commissioned Durham University to develop a leadership course for senior Public Health Staff in the North East. This is being led by Dr Catherine Hannaway.

The North East Leading Improvement for Health and Well-being Programme 2011 aims to respond to the challenging agenda by developing leaders with the necessary knowledge and skills to improve health and well-being.

Objectives

• To support the delivery of the regional Health and Wellbeing Strategy through the alignment of improvement work to Better Health Fairer Health and the Strategic Health Authority Vision
• To develop local leadership capacity for the improvement of health and well being
• To further develop local leaders of whole system and quality improvement
• To further develop effective local partnerships
• To develop supportive ‘communities of practice’ amongst leaders of health and wellbeing.

North East Leading Improvement for Health and Well Being Programme Service Specification

A taught/facilitated leadership programme including:

• 3 x 1day master-class workshops and 1x 2 day residential and leadership diagnostic - development and support tools (such as 360 degree feedback, Honey & Mumford Learning Styles)
• Local support workshops for work-based quality improvement projects, aimed at equipping leaders with improvement methodologies skills. 2x 1 day improvement methodology workshops where participants are broken into smaller groups in 2 geographical locations
• 1:1 coaching – 1 session per participant.