Day 98: The Magic Number?

De La Soul’s 1990 hit, says the magic number is ‘Three’.  At the Commissioning Nurse Leaders meeting today, our first task was, in groups, to identify three important issues that we’re challenged by to inform the day’s agenda.  Once conversation started flowing we found it hard to keep it down to just three!

All groups then shared their priorities, which essentially fell into or represented three elements: Leadership, Relationships & Accountability.  So my ‘take-home message’ from the day was to continue to develop relationships, the importance of real leadership and have to clear lines of accountability.  There’s no ‘magic’ solution.

Day 45: Catch Up

A bit of a catch-up day today: catching up with people, catching up with e-mail and catching up with some reports that I haven’t had time for earlier this week.

I had a very constructive initial meeting with the Director of Quality of one of our providers.  I’m still getting round to meeting with many people who are new to me.  We got on well and agreed a plan to meet regularly in the future.

This relationship is particularly important, as we’re about to go out to the market to re-procure these services.  During this process, this relationship will be important as we both look to ensure safety and effectiveness of services for patients through a period of potential change.