Invitations are now open to the Royal Socitey of Medicine, Quality in Healthcare Section Quality Improvement Travelling Fellowship Bursary
GGI supports the new Code of Conduct for Healthcare Managers, launched today (25th January 2012) by the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM). Working with the Medical Royal Colleges, the RCN and others IHM's new Code of Conduct lays out expected behaviours from those managing healthcare services, and GGI commends all boards to ensure that their own managements have signed up to these.
The Good Governance Institute (GGI) has collaborated with the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) to produce this seminal report into the foundation principles of good governance. Understanding these is key to being able to apply good governance to new and emerging organisations in healthcare, and for working through partnership and hosting arrangements. Drawn from academic study, the various governance Codes and law and established better governance practice GGI and HQIP have identified nine foundation principles. This report explains how to apply these within health and social care organisations. GGI will be taking forward these foundation principles within various developmental programmes during 2012.
GGI has launched a new resource for boards. HM Treasury requires all boards to agree and publish a statement of their risk appetite, and GGI has been working with the NHS in Southwark to develop and field test an approach to using risk appetite to help improve how NHS boards work. The work was funded by a successful bid by Southwark BSU to Leading for Health (LfH) the then leadership arm of NHS London and is is now available as part of our programme of board development.
The Good Governance Institute has today launched Safeguarding Adults Guidance aimed at public sector Boards. The work support by Datix sets out the key areas Boards should focus on to assure themselves organsiation are safeguarding vulberable people.
GGI believes that the Department of Health's Whole Systems Demonstrator (WSD) is a landmark in advancing patient care in the UK. The WSD is starting to provide a good evidence base for telehealth supported community care for patients with long term conditions. We believe that this emerging approach to empowering patients is a genuine revolution on the way healthcare can be provided. The WSD provides unequivocal evidence of the benefits to patients and healthcare system alike.
The Good Governance Institute would like to congratulate Paul Moore, Chief Risk Officer at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust who was announced as Winner of the HFMA Governance Award 2011.
John Buillivant, Chair of the Good Governance Institute sat on the judging panel. The award is made to an individual, team or organisation that has introduced a change (big or small) to its assurance, risk management or governance arrangements in order that the organisation as a whole is better able to achieve its objectives.
Congratulations to Suzie Barker who won the 2011 University of Westminster Good Governance Award organised by Joy Tweed and sponsored by Healthcare Conferences UK and the Good Governance Institute.
Suzie is a researcher at the University College London Dementia Research Centre and her winning dissertation for the MSc Integrated Governance in Healthcare Communities was on Research Governance.
Suzie was awarded a certificate, book and complimentary tickets to 2 conferences by Dr John Bullivant, Chairman of the Good Governance Institute, at the University of Westminster on 29 Nov 2011.
