Guest blog by Nick Elliott, a management consultant specialising in digital within healthcare. Nick was the first board-level CIO in…

Guest blog by Tony Warne, Professor Emeritus of Mental Health Care at the School of Health and Society, the University…

By Paul Taylor – Director of Change & Communities, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. Paul has spent 37 years in local…

A personal reflection by Martin Thomas, Copywriter. In those halcyon days BC (before Covid) an ordinary working day used to…

A personal reflection by Ian Brandon, Consultant. The initial lockdown (remember back to 16 March 2020, when Boris first made…

A personal reflection by Christopher Smith, Consultant. Although many of us at GGI had worked remotely, at least some of…

A personal reflection by Stephen McCulloch, Director of Communications. In the middle of March 2020, I got the call everyone…

A personal reflection by Peter Allanson, Principal Consultant. The run-up to the pandemic found me under the stage in the…

A personal reflection by Jaco Marais, Creative Partner. My family lives in New Zealand. It was the place they chose…

A personal reflection by Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive (Partner). A year ago today GGI locked down. We were a week…

On Tuesday this week, more than 300 senior health sector leaders from all over the country gathered virtually at our…

On behalf of everyone at the Good Governance Institute I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas….

One of the recurring themes to emerge from our series of webinar discussions about integrated care systems, which came to…

By Professor Usman Khan The NHSE/I paper Integrating care: next steps to building strong and effective integrated care systems across…

The penultimate breakfast webinar in our series looking at design principles for integrated care was the best attended so far,…

As we have heard so many times in 2020, these are unprecedented times. Not only have we been working flat-out…

GGI webinar: Wednesday 16 December 2020 Briefing paper to prompt discussion  At The NHSE/I paper Integrating care: next steps to…

We’re now four weeks into our six-week series of breakfast webinars exploring design principles for ICSs, ICPs and systems. This…

The value of anchor institutions has been explored well by the Health Foundation in recent months.  Its report, Building healthier…

GGI webinar: Wednesday 9 December 2020 Briefing paper to prompt discussion – by Beatrice Fraenkel, Chair, Mersey Care NHS Foundation…

Integrated care systems (ICSs) are required to take a more proactive role in population health and prevention. A key priority…

This week marked the halfway point in our series of six webinars exploring integrated care. Our discussion theme was the…

GGI webinar: Wednesday 2 December 2020 Briefing paper to prompt discussion The value of anchor institutions has been explored well…

On Wednesday this week we hosted the second in our series of six webinars exploring some of the big themes…

GGI webinar: Wednesday 25 November 2020 Briefing paper to prompt discussion Integrated care systems (ICSs) are required to take a…

Realising the value promise of integrated care systems (ICSs) is probably the biggest transformation challenge the NHS in England has…

Integrated care represents the future of health and social care in the UK. NHS England expects the whole country to…

GGI webinar: Wednesday 18 November 2020 Briefing paper to prompt discussion The new integrated care systems (ICSs) being established across…

As policy turns to reality up and down the country, integrated care systems are being established. At first the policy…

GGI webinar: Wednesday 11 November 2020 Briefing paper to prompt discussion Integrated care systems (ICS) are central to delivering the…

Imagine for a second that when you start a new job you don’t meet with or speak to your manager…

  A personal blog by Sam Currie, Policy and Research Analyst and Emma Williams, Communications Analyst. As the political debate…

Our 2020 Festival Review closes with an article by Festival Director Jaco Marais. At the heart of Jaco’s article is…

2020 has forced us all to embrace new ways of doing things. We saw seismic shifts in areas such as…

The UK is moving from a narrow and competitive model of healthcare, in which hospital was pitched against hospital, towards…

The Festival of Governance is an opportunity to connect with good governance as a cultural driver for change. During the…

Including people from diverse backgrounds contributes to the health and sustainability of a board, the wider organisation and the community…

The NHS describes population health as an approach that aims to improve physical and mental health outcomes, promote wellbeing and…

“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” Emma Lazarus The distasteful slip-up in the NHS People…

In April, the government announced that it was suspending gender pay gap reporting for a year to ease the burden…

Integrated care systems (ICS) are much more about the right mindset than structures and they must be focused on actions…

The world’s focus throughout the COVID-19 crisis has quite rightly remained fixed on the healthcare sector as it tackled what…

Last week The Economist concluded in its lead article that “the country has the wrong government for a pandemic”.  YouGov…

You might recall the campaign by pubs and clubs a while back to ask frisky teenagers just how old they…

I started life as Ed the Head, built by my creator Bob Lawrence in 2004 from an old 5¼-inch disk…

Saturday 20 June is World Refugee Day, a United Nations initiative to build empathy and understanding for the plight of…

  It wasn’t far into the COVID-19 crisis that it started to become apparent that the pandemic was having a…

One of the defining characteristics of the coronavirus crisis has been the widespread use of statistics. From prime ministerial messages…

Governance is not just a peace-time activity to be compromised when things get tough. In fact, the reverse is true….

Is there a disconnect between personal motivations and the reality of being on a higher education board? When I ask…

New, practical tool launched, exploring the concept and effectiveness of ‘Best Value’ in the NHS. The Good Governance Institute in…

Did you know that the test to become a director of an NHS trust is tougher than the test imposed…

GGI works with a lot of healthcare organisations either to support them ahead of a CQC inspection or to complete…

Public voice is emerging as a big theme in the National Commission on the future of governance in the public…

Reading any planning document or business case in the world of UK health and social care from the past few…

We all know that the NHS is facing significant challenges – mounting demand, funding constraints, and workforce shortages to name…

Stronger narratives about the value and need for good governance may have emerged in recent years – often in response…

If you were around at the beginning of the year, you are likely to have caught a whiff of Dominic…

On Friday 6 December, GGI hosted the first ever meeting of the Population Health Network, looking at the governance implications…

I have seen the governance of quality in the NHS evolve over my 10 plus years in the health sector,…

In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s an election on!  So, what’s in the manifestos for a governance addict – who…

We launched our first report of the National Commission at the House of Lords on the 21st of November, the…

You may not realise, but if you’re an NHS trust then you’ve got one.  You’ve actually only had your legal…

We all know that the NHS is facing significant challenges – mounting demand, funding constraints, and workforce shortages to name…

Independent of government, third sector organisations are values-driven, motivated by the desire to achieve social goals – for example, to…

In the wake of a number of highly publicised scandals involving Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Joao Figueiredo, Research Analyst GGI, takes…

The Good Governance Institute is pleased to announce that Peter Allanson has joined the organisation as Principal Consultant. Peter brings…

Two new partners have been announced by the Good Governance Institute LLP to support the company’s plans for growing value…

ISQua’s mission is to improve quality in patient safety. It achieves this through education, knowledge sharing, external evaluation, supporting health…

GGI Consultant, Nina Atwal was one of the eighteen fortunate participants at this year’s Summer Camp in Marseille. Returning to…

Thursday 5 September saw VIPS flocking to GGI’s Annual Lecture in Westminster, London. The event also marked the launch of…

Established 20 years ago the success of Summer Camp rests on the rich diversity of its community and the willingness…

Dame Fiona Caldicott, the UK’s first statutory National Data Guardian for health and social care, has been named as the…

Of course, it’s personal. It’s our NHS… We all love and use it, yet still abuse it and undermine it…

Programmes Director, Laura Botea, believes it’s time to move beyond compliance and embrace community engagement as a strategic priority In…

The pressure is intensifying – in addition to the issues of budget cuts, and population growth and aging, Brexit is…

Organisational boards have a responsibility to conduct themselves according to principles of good governance however sometimes – whether by omission…

While organisations world-wide are experiencing significant change and uncertainty, GGI Chief Executive Andrew Corbett-Nolan would like to encourage boards to…

While the NHS doesn’t have a great track record with IT, GGI Consultant, Nina Atwal is optimistic. Here she gives…

GGI’s interim Head of Communications Martin Evans tells us how, after a vivid dream one evening, he altered the course…

Our GGI team recently returned from a successful trip to the annual European Health Management Association (EHMA) conference in Espoo,…

The success of the NHS Long Term Plan rests, in part, on the principles of integration and collaboration. GGI Director…