Leadership for Health Improvement Programme

The Leadership for Health Improvement Programme is a leadership development programme aimed at a multiagency cohort of around 60 senior public health improvement leaders from a broad range of organisations across Yorkshire and the Humber and County Durham and Tees Valley. This initial programme is based on a model created by the NHS Modernisation Agency; the Leading Modernisation Programme, and has been funded as a national pilot initiative by the Department of Health. The Programme will run from November 2005 to February 2007 with an external evaluation by Northumbria University.

As we progress through the one-year programme, we will attempt to capture the structure, processes and learning from the Leadership for Health Improvement Programme. The purpose of doing so is both as a record for those participating in the programme, and as a reference and signpost to help others looking to build local capability for leadership of health improvement efforts.

This material gives a firm base from which you can share and further develop local health improvement initiatives, including a database of local champions and case studies of good practice.

The success of this programme will be built on the enthusiasm, energy, passion and commitment brought to it by the Advisory Faculty, external speakers and the participants themselves. We will, wherever possible open events to the wider community of public health improvement leaders from a range of health and partner organisations.

We know of no other development programme worldwide that has pulled together such a foundational evidence base, which allows such broad space for innovation or which seeks such a multifaceted developmental outcome for its participants. This is a groundbreaking programme, which has the potential for enormous impact on the personal development of individuals and public health improvement systems locally.

The dates of the one year programme are as follows:

• Programme Launch - Wednesday 16th November 2005
• Improvement Primer Workshop - Monday 28th November 2005 (Optional)
• Event 1 - Wednesday 18th January 2006
• Event 2 - Tuesday 28th March 2006
• Event 3 - Residential 2 day event, Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd June 2006
• Event 4 - Thursday 14th September 2006
• Event 5 - Wednesday 22nd November 2006
• Event 6 - Residential 2 day event, Wednesday 31st January 2007 & Thursday 1st February 2007

For supporting information for the LHIP please click on the links below

• LHIP Background Papers & External Evaluation
• Development Tools

Action Learning Sets

For more information about Action Learning Sets please click here

Contacts

Catherine Hannaway - on behalf of the LHIP Advisory Faculty NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

Tel 07810 836306

David J Hunter
Professor of Health Policy & Management
Durham University

Tel: 0191 3340360

Dr Susan Carr
External Evaluation Lead
Northumbria University

Tel: 0191 2156217

updated 1/06/08