The delivery of primary care has seen rapid changes in response to COVID-19, as technology-enabled care has been employed to…

The context and drivers of health and care integration efforts are well-stated in response to demographic changes, resource constraints, and…

Our work with non-executives has kept us in touch with boards of all types across the country and we’ve come…

NHS trust boards have been asked to lighten the load on executives as much as possible during the first and…

This week (18-24 May) is Mental Health Awareness Week. This year’s theme is kindness – a particularly appropriate choice as…

Mental health problems are among the main causes of overall disease burden in the UK. In England, an estimated 551,000…

It feels particularly apt that the World Health Organisation designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife to…

Many leaders are wisely re-thinking what board development needs to look like in future. The new world of complex challenges…

If the job of a non-executive director in the NHS is difficult what about the role of a governor? Governed…

GGI believes that the three pillars of recovery from the coronavirus crisis are testing, health and safety, and shielding vulnerable…

Where do citizens fit into the new normal and what does this mean for the way boards think and operate?…

The role of medical director or chief medical officer in an NHS organisation is one of the most challenging and…

The name of Florence Nightingale, whose birthday it is today (12 May), has been in the news during the coronavirus…

Professor Mervyn King was appointed by South African President Nelson Mandela to develop governance frameworks from 1992. The King Commission…

Gender, underlying health and age are all factors that can make a person more vulnerable to COVID-19. A fourth factor…

COVID-19 has galvanised boards due to the short-term threats it presents to both staff and incomes. Now as the UK…

As the world tentatively moves towards the recovery phase of the coronavirus pandemic, there is almost universal agreement that testing…

In March, GGI published advice on holding virtual board meetings. One month after most NHS boards took their meetings online,…

As NHS boards turn their thoughts from addressing the immediate crisis towards restoration and recovery, GGI recommends devoting a board…

Over the past month, the phrase ‘the new normal’ has become increasingly commonplace as the NHS embraced partnership working and…

One positive to emerge from the era of the virus is its challenge to the way the public sector describes…

Today we ask an important and perhaps surprising question: do NHS boards really need finance committees right now? The only…

The new normal will need new leadership. Yet the people in charge remain the same. In an earlier bulletin we…

When GGI Executive Director of Delivery Darren Grayson was asked to support a local health care system to rapidly escalate…

When it comes to its staff, the NHS has always talked a good game. However, this rhetoric has not always…

GGI is producing a series of board assurance prompts (BAPs) to help NHS boards address some of the challenges presented…

The COVID-19 pandemic presents some new and challenging ethical questions to front-line NHS staff and the boards governing them. Recognising…

GGI is committed to providing practical advice to health and social care organisations about modern, proportionate governance throughout the coronavirus…

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, GGI is offering its advisory service to NHS boards and other public sector organisations…

During the pandemic boards have stepped back so that executive teams can focus on the here-and-now crisis. NHS Boards are…

The last month has not been pretty in governance terms. A crisis on this scale is too easily seen as…

By their nature, crises are unpredictable. When that crisis is a pandemic that seemingly strikes at random, regardless of any…

Today’s guest post has been written by Andrew Fitzmaurice, CEO of Templar Executives, a cybersecurity advisory services and solutions company…

During these weeks of lockdown we have held conversations with NHS boards to discuss their response to COVID-19, looking for…

In our conversations with NHS boards about their responses to COVID-19, GGI has been looking to identify practical guidance and…

In our conversations with NHS boards about their responses to COVID-19, we have been looking to identify practical guidance we…

In our conversations with NHS boards about their responses to COVID-19, we have been looking to identify practical guidance and…

In previous GGI briefings, we have addressed how the coronavirus crisis has placed extra pressure on NHS boards. And yet,…

In a guest GGI briefing on 26 March, Dr Usman Khan stressed the importance of the non-executive director (NED) role…

As part of our work on NHS board responses to COVID-19, GGI was keen to find out what other NHS…

One week after the UK went into lockdown, we update our advice on the new world of virtual NHS board…

It may be that the two most important words during the coronavirus crisis are ‘thank you’. From the board’s perspective,…

This bulletin was contributed by Dr Usman Khan, former chair of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust who has recently…

A wise chairman once said: ‘Don’t look for the edges of your accountability; you are accountable for it all’. Sage…

As part of our work to support the NHS and promote effective governance in times of crisis, the Good Governance…

As part of our work to support the NHS and promote effective governance in times of crisis, the Good Governance…