✨Gabbie Parham✨RN DN QN

Owen Williams calls for a focus on the next leadership generation. We need to retain and develop them into the leaders of the future but it has to be an exciting opportunity, not drudgery.

Patricia Miller feels there’s still a lack of freedom for leaders to act. In response to the example above, she felt ICBs don’t need to be told what assurance framework should look like, or get sign-off for JDs. “If we need that level of supervision I might as well be a band 7.”

“We need to change the way that we lead to give ICSs the space to lead”, says @ChrisHopsonNHS - for example he says winter planning was a national-level framework that allowed ICSs flexibility to determine how/where to spend the funds; managed using board assurance framework.

Now at #NTsummit @ChrisHopsonNHS says the perspective of now sitting in NHS England brings home the consequences of being in a taxpayer-funded national health system, for which politicans have accountability for spending.

Patricia Miller says the biggest lever for change is focusing on how we personally need to change as leaders. Also, change isn’t a process - we have to change the conversation from micromanagement and targets to ask something different and allow autonomy of ICS leadership.

Phone running out of battery already so I must bow out of livetweeting…the #NTsummit is being livestreamed. Before I go, will leave you with wise words from @RFLchiefexec - health leaders should think about comms with public from the perspective of what you’d want as a patient.