What is an interim manager? It seems to be one of the most misunderstood terms in the hiring world. It involves some of the most senior, trusted and capable talent available. Yet many HR and Procurement functions have a habit of treating it like they do unskilled temporary recruitment.
The need for workforce action could not be more acute. This includes the need to transform the way the NHS delivers patient care, empowers its people and cares for their wellbeing.
The need for workforce action could not be more acute. This includes the need to transform the way the NHS delivers patient care, empowers its people and cares for their wellbeing.
By Practicus 19th May 2022. Our account managers are there to provide a deeper level of collaboration – to live and breath your values, convey your purpose and give additional support
By Practicus 17th May 2022. Practicus is pleased to announce that we have been recognised at the Best Workplaces Awards 2022. Officially Practicus is now the 57th best small workplace in
Considerations from the past to help make integrating social care and healthcare in the new NHS ICS structures eaiser
We’ve attempted to climb the endless mountain of Google’s PMO questions to bring you the very peak of stupid when it comes to PMO queries. And then, rather foolishly, we’ve attempted to answer them.
The most common reason why PMO as a Service is chosen is because the existing PMO has lost its way or does not yet exist. But there are plenty of other reasons too.
This story charts the experience of how an Interim helped an independent healthcare provider adopt a digital transformation programme to propel its long-term growth strategy.
Each year, Practicus, like many other organisations and people around the world celebrates March 8th as International Women’s Day (IWD), but how did this commemoration come about and why on this particular day?
Addressing health inequalities is again becoming a high-priority challenge at national level – and as a society, the growing divergence in rich-poor life expectancy should arguably concern us all.
As someone who places senior interim executives into companies, I often find that many still have a mythological fear about choosing interims for their big change programmes. It is partly
We are more than a little bit excited – to make the inaugural list of best workplaces for wellbeing in the UK
PSIRF is a new system for investigating or reviewing patient safety incidents, to improve patient safety and develop a. culture of learning
Practicus is delighted to announce that its “Covid-19 Vaccine Programme – Estates, Equipment, Consumables & Logistics (EECL) Workstream” has been shortlisted for Best Estates Optimisation Project at the HSJ Partnership Awards 2022.
You have heard of agile project management and software development. But have you heard of agile transformation? An executive overview of agile transformation with real-world examples by Practicus community member, Tim Lake.
Finding the right interim manager for your business needs is critical. To ensure you can effectively identify and qualify the right calibre of individual, you should build a business case with clear objectives and deliverables.
There are lots of benefits to working as an Interim, but despite all of the positives, by their nature short-term roles can also be very challenging. Below are some of the comments reported from our own interims.
PSIRF is a new system for investigating or reviewing patient safety incidents, to improve patient safety and develop a. culture of learning
We are proud to have supported the NHS with key Interim Consultants with critical supply chain skills and project leadership experience. Here we take a look at some of the big challenges.
Remote working provides flexible work arrangements for hired workers but also presents a set of challenges for employers, which can easily be managed with the right technology and the right organisational culture.
You have heard of agile project management and software development. But have you heard of agile transformation? An executive overview of agile transformation with real-world examples by Practicus community member, Tim Lake.
NHS proposals to redesign the 4-hour A&E waiting list performance target into 10 granular metrics. The pros and concerns.
From blood tests to imaging the NHS is making these more accessible away from hospitals. Exploring how embedding diagnostic capabilities deeper into local community centres can improve the NHS’s ability to discover and treat health issues more rapidly.
Andrew Vaux – Head of Independent Healthcare , Practicus 2020 is the first year that IHPN has run its industry barometer survey to take the temperature of the independent healthcare
We have been working with the NHS for more than 15 years to deliver skilled and experienced Interims for leadership positions. Our experts help the NHS navigate change. We connect
It’s high up the agenda in nearly every Boardroom – what does return to work look like? The spectrum of strategies is well represented, from the ‘presenteeism’ of Goldman Sachs to the ‘WFH 4ever’ of Twitter.
During the pandemic, some PMOs are thriving whilst others are exposing flaws and weaknesses. Here are the six things that separate them.
The PMO at its conception had a very simple purpose, one that remains as true today as it did back then. Over the PMO’s history, has the world lost sight of it?
Andrew Vaux – Head of Independent Healthcare , Practicus It was an invitation only ‘virtual’ Roundtable for leaders within Independent Health to explore how as a sector it could work
In the second Webinar of our ‘Accelerated Change’ series, we examine how successful leaders leverage ambiguity to their advantage. In an increasingly complex environment where events outside of our control
This is the controversial conclusion reached by author Catherine Hayes in her recently released book, Transition Leadership, Navigating the Complexities of Change. For many in the world of Change and
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For many commentators COVID-19 has not changed the future, it has simply brought it forward. Surpassing trend predictions are remote working, online collaboration and process automation to name but a
Find out more about Ask The Community Find out more about the Practicus community more broadly
Find out more about Ask The Community Find out more about the Practicus community more broadly
With collaboration between Healthcare systems in response to COVID-19 at an all-time high, we hosted a Webinar today to look at how the impetus for integrated change can be sustained and enhanced as we imagine the future of healthcare in the UK.
When Transformation Leader, Liz Eckert was grappling with the challenge on how to measure need, ahead of making recommendations on where to position urgent treatment services for a West Country
Summary of our Round Table discussion with industry experts to explore what problems technology could solve in health & social care this decade? Held last year, while the front line
With COVID-19 having a significant impact on businesses throughout the world, we spoke with Practicus community member, Nik Butcher, an expert in Engaging and Rewarding people and the founder of Chuangyi and SEE Reward.
How can you raise awareness of diversity equality and inclusion in your organsation? Full report on best practice and lessons learned from Practicus workshop event with HR leaders.
As an operational leader in the NHS, I would want to change the number of opposing constitutional standards.
It would be to make governance more consistent. To my mind, governance should be like a game of premier league football…
I’d love for the NHS to be removed from political change. I know this is a Nirvana-like state but we can all dream.
It would be to ensure collaboration and cooperation are embedded into every aspect of the NHS. I have seen first-hand, the power that collaboration has in delivering sustainable high quality services.
It would be that out-of-hospital services, provided by a combination of acute hospitals, community health & social care organisations and the voluntary sector, are frequently disconnected.
Whenever I support an organisation with the development of their savings programme…
Recently, one of our clients came to us with a question. They wanted to know what would be the best HR system for their organisation. From talking to vendors, they
I would change the financial incentives so that all organisations are rewarded for the achievement of patient-determined outcomes….
The amount of NHS footprint that goes unused on a routine basis borders on the criminal and needs to change…
We’ve been talking about integrating health and social care for many years now – and yet evidence of meaningful progress is rarely seen.
The benefits of digital as a channel to customers are well established. What often proves more elusive for large organisations are the substantial cost savings digital thinking promises. We talk
The obvious ‘one thing’ that most would choose would be more money! But I am convinced that would not be the solution and would actually compound the already lopsided current system.
I’d restore ‘Prevention of ill-health’ as a key priority for the NHS. One of the less controversial aspects of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 reforms at the time, was the transfer of public health commissioning from the NHS to local authorities.
The Off-Payroll Rules/IR35 is not new tax legislation. Rules have been in place since 2000. However, changes to these rules were implemented in the Public Sector in 2017 and were
The Off-Payroll Rules/IR35 is not new tax legislation. Rules have been in place since 2000. However, changes to these rules were implemented in the Public Sector in 2017 and are
On Thursday 19th September, Practicus ran a roundtable discussion for clinicians, including CEOs, COOs and Senior Directors and Chief Nurses to focus on the challenges of delivering sustainable change from a clinical perspective. The event was well attended and chaired by Andrea O’Connell, Executive Director of Nursing.
On Thursday 12th September, Practicus ran a roundtable for CEOs, COOs and Senior Directors in the North West focused on the challenges of delivering sustainable integrated care. The event was well attended and led by Sir David Dalton, who gave a short presentation of his own experience ahead of chairing the discussion.
We invest billions every year in pills, potions, treatments and surgery and yet we invest little in psychological support. And I don’t mean counselling – I mean psychological support delivered by highly – skilled clinicians.
When the leading Business Architect for Lloyd’s of London, Neil Williams engaged Practicus, his ambition was to resurrect an initiative that had previously struggled to get off the ground. He
The purpose of this event was to discuss the current issues surrounding women in Life Sciences and the various ways women can succeed in senior positions.
Now that the CEO of Lloyd’s of London, John Neal, has released his strategy aimed at shaping the future of the world’s (re)insurance market, we thought we’d canvass the thoughts
The purpose of this roundtable discussion was to ask senior NHS leaders, including COOs, CFOs, CEO’s and Turnaround Directors their thoughts and innovative suggestions on how we can deliver and maintain sustainable change within the healthcare sector.
Mark Chapman, CEO at Alliance Medical Group talks to us about the benefits of being part of the Practicus Community and how it can be used to solve business problems.
The world of Pharma is undergoing significant change. “Big volume is now generic. To add value, you need to actually have a different proposition rather than just a per-milligram dose
For three decades our health and care policies vacillated between three competing needs, with the third priority having an increasingly dominant run.
About the NHS it would be its lack of consistency. I spend time in a lot of different organisations and there are significant variations in practice that can mean less than optimal clinical care for patients, as well as additional unnecessary expens
Apart from the obvious wish for enhanced funding to arrive, the greatest limitation I have found with the NHS is the inability to plan service delivery (and thereby cost savings) over a long period.
It would be the approach to recruitment, retention and development of leaders and leadership teams at all levels of the NHS.
After training over a thousand leads and clinical staff in the use of Quality Improvement (QI) tools, I am passionate about skills and capability building for NHS staff. If we always do what we have done, we will get the same results.
t has been a good first half to the year for Practicus. We turned 15 years old, we launched new value-added services based on our ONE + MANY model and we came 2nd in the Institute of Interim Management’s provider survey 2019, our highest ever position!
Research shows that mental health problems in the workplace cost UK employers £26 billion per year, averaging £1,035 per employee. In fact, the vast majority of people will be impacted by mental health problems at some point in their life.
Having spent over 12 years in the NHS in a variety of consulting roles – mainly focused on transformation and turnaround challenges – I have seen huge change. Some of this has been progressive but unfortunately, a lot has been unsuccessful, failing to deliver both sustainable benefits for patients and staff, or efficiency gains and financial improvement.
It would be around the “connectivity of care” and effective seamless “handovers” – or dare I say it, have no “handovers” at all!
t is widely known that with every “hand off” at least 1-2 days delay are inbuilt into the patients journey – which can lead to more mistakes, confusion around who has done what already, deterioration of the patient, re-reviewing patients and Community out of-hospital staff having difficulty locating and receiving patients.
The NHS is steeped in history and tradition, and has a strong surrounding infrastructure to support regulatory compliance, but sometimes this can lead to compartmentalisation of roles. I would change the way we think about clinical governance and how it sometimes gets separated out from operational and financial activity.
The value and place of the NHS is not in question, nor is its contribution to the quality of all our lives. But something needs to change if policies on personal responsibility are to embed more widely
f I could change one thing (politics aside) it would be to take a sledge hammer and open the whole lot up, take away the barriers, share information openly and work as a truly single organisation, only then will we be able to get to the root cause of our problems and solve them together.
For the longest time, healthcare providers in both the public and independent sector have depended on agency staff, particularly around nursing, in order to meet their organisational objective.
On Tuesday 9th April, we ran our ‘HR High Tea: Reward Strategy – Achieving more with Less’ event at Albert’s- Beaufort House in Chelsea to discuss ways companies can do more for less in the HR reward space. The session was led by Nik Butcher from Chuangyi Group.
It would be for evolving health and care systems to have available the workforce they really require. Fundamentally, we are in a place where the services that are there to support the health and care needs of individuals, do not have the key individuals they need to do so. For several years now, it has been well-recognised that professionals in key disciplines are in desperately short supply.
It would be with management structures. The great companies have one thing in common: a world-class management system. One that cascades from top to bottom of the organisation, allowing management of their business at all levels and a clear line of sight from board to shop floor.
’d use the average income per specialty information to achieve standardisation of funding to providers across the NHS. National data exists or can be generated that would provide a basis for comparison to a peer group of similar providers at a specialty level.
As NHS leaders announced their long-term plans in 2019, we invited the views of a group of people seldom heard from, to see how they’d improve the NHS.
Have you ever been in one of those situations where you really don’t fit in but have the good fortune to meet someone who thinks just like you do? If
by Carl Stevenson At the end of 2018, Practicus coordinated a roundtable – hosted by Alliance Healthcare – that brought together leaders from independent healthcare providers and the NHS. It’s
by Darren Tolhurst, CEO. It’s taken us 15 years but we think we’ve finally cracked it! We set out in 2004 to change the way people feel about recruitment. That
by Lawrence Hill. A night of open, honest discussion around the art of the possible. There’s a lot of excitement about Business Intelligence (BI) tools for empowering evidence-based decision making.
by Carl Stevenson, Managing Consultant. I wrote recently that the workforce problem facing independent health due to Brexit was really an intensification of long-standing hiring and retention issues. The truth
by Carl Stevenson, Managing Consultant. There may be six months to go before the UK leaves the European Union but the EU worker tap has already begun to run dry.
In this series, we interview a respected change leader to discuss the successes and hard lessons that made them who they are today. This month, it’s Annette Andresen, a Transformation
By Lawrence Hill. Traditionally, executive search has always been about… well, searching for the right executive. But a recent survey conducted across 16 UK sectors by Practicus revealed that search
In this series, we interview a respected change leader to discuss the successes and hard lessons that made them who they are today. This month, it’s Paul Johnson, an executive
by Ben Culora. As boardrooms across the world grapple with shaping a data-driven future for their business, there is real danger in believing the need for change lies outside of
In this series, we interview a respected change leader to discuss the successes and hard lessons that made them who they are today. This month, it’s Keith Monk, an executive
As pressure on Outpatients performance increases, we speak to Steve Gasking, an interim transformation director with more than a decade’s experience in acute environments. With a CV eleven pages long,
It’s interesting the ideas that come up in conversation when you are networking with people who share your interests. Take the example of two Scottish clergymen in the 1740s who
Idris Kamara interviews Aya Ferguson about effective ways to improve the success of Higher Education change initiatives. It’s no secret that there is a bit of a Copernican revolution taking
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