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NEWSLETTERISSUE 14 OCTOBER 2018

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

EU Project partners have met twice in Lille in June and September to advance the development of the CASCADE model of care.The CASCADE model promotes a strengths based approach to holistic person centered dementia care to maximize independence and quality of life for people living with dementia in the community.Partners have also been progressing the care tourism offer in addition to developing the CASCADE training programme and workforce development framework. Partners from Kent and Medway are making good progress with the building of their facilities in Medway and Dover and developing their plans for using technology to support people in our communities to live independently. The ECPD team has been busy supporting partners in Flanders and the Netherlands to collect their own data to measure the impact of new interventions on the quality of person centered care in their organisations over the lifetime of the project. Six monthly data collection cycles commenced in May and will run until November 2020 using a variety of tools that capture information about the impact on the workplace culture, leadership, team working, quality of care and wellbeing of staff and residents/clients. Working closely

EU CASCADE project- Community Areas for Sustainable Care and Dementia Excellence in Europe

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with a team from HZ Applied Sciences and the Flanders Centre of Expertise on Dementia, good progress is being made to triangulate evidence of impact in multiple locations of a number of new social innovation deliverables that are key to the project outcomes. Dr Shaun Cardiff from the Knowledge Centre at Fontys University is project consultant supporting local workshops with the ECPD team.The project has been presented at two regional conferences for East Kent Hospitals NHS University Foundation Trust and Kent and Medway Partnership Trust over the summer. A poster has been accepted for the 28th Alzheimer Europe conference in Barcelona 29-31 October 2018 and a symposium accepted for the CARE 4 International Scientific Nursing and Midwifery Congress in Leuven 4-6 February 2019.The Flanders Centre of Expertise on Dementia is offering a unique opportunity to apply for a 5 day-study/field visit to Belgium in October 2018 to get a taste of the topic ‘quality of care for people with dementia’ in Flanders. https://wyldementia.org/flanders-centre-of-expertise-on-dementia/.For more information searchwww.interreg2seas.eu/en/cascade

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INTERNATIONAL CASCADE project update SymposiaInternational Practice Development Collaborative news International fellowship news

National Burdett Trust ProjectConsultant Practitioner Capability Framework

NHS Celebrates 70 Most Influential leaders

Developing a quality, safety and transformation research and practice development strategy across Kent & Medway Supporting People with learning disabilities at the end of life Kent and Medway STP

new Kent and Medway Medical School

East Kent ACE Initiative

Publications and Reports

REGIONAL

Four Years of Centre Research Presented at International Conference Symposia this Summer

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The team from the ECPD presented three papers and workshops at this year’s biennial conference of the International Practice Development Collaborative hosted by the three University hospitals of Berne, Basle and Zurich in August. Key note speakers included Professor Michael West of Lancaster University and Kings Fund who focussed on compassionate leadership, and a professor at Cornell University who presented intriguing research around bees, illustrating how bees communicate with each other to choose the best home from different options leading to the six habits of effective hives to explain effective

leadership. The Centre presented two research projects in relation to embedding safety culture and more effective use of continuous professional development. A successful creative workshop with collaborators in the IPDC enabled further data to be gathered around the development of effective workplace cultures and how they are recognised.Participants from around the world within the practice development community experienced a vibrant conference in a beautiful city with green policies that enable all visitors to use the tram system for free.

Leading and Facilitating within Practice Development in Health Care,22-24 August, Basel, Switzerland

Carrie and Kim presented four years worth of ECPD research at two symposia this summer at the Royal College of Nursing and the Sigma Theta Tau International research conferences in Birmingham and Cambridge. This provided an extended workshop opportunity to gain critical feedback on three new theories developed as a result and the Venus Framework for Person Centred Sustainable Transformation ©. Audiences

viewed the work very favourably and could see its practical application in many different contexts so this was a positive endorsement of the body of work. The team are now focused on publishing their findings and developing their impact care studies.

Professor Kim Manley and Professor Michael West sharing research on leadership.

International Practice Development Collaborative UpdateMembers of the IPDC met in Basel over two days at the August international conference to discuss their future plans for strengthening the IPDC brand, increasing membership and supporting international research, practice development and innovation initiatives together.The Foundation of Nursing Studies, which currently hosts the free on line access International Practice Development Journal and IPDC resources will relaunch the rebranded information on its website

in the next month or so. Members have committed to developing an EU wide Practice Development programme (Practice Development Schools) for new and existing members, a Webinars series to be hosted by the ECPD, and develop a global Critical Companionship Database, being led by Prof Val Wilson at the University of Wollongong. The International Practice Development Journal will shortly be advertising for a new journal editor.

INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP NEWS

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Welcoming New International Fellows

We are delighted to welcome our colleagues at the Solidarity University as new organisational fellows. Solidarity University is a unique collaboration of social innovators and entrepreneurs with expertise in supporting sustainable citizen and community innovation through inside-out initiatives that embody the strengths, relationships and stories of communities as the foundation platform for their transformation. Colleagues Arend Roos and Petra Da Braal visited the centre in the summer to discuss the ways in which we might work together on community activated projects in the future to support sustainable transformation through EU Funding.

Arend Roos has been working in the world of healthcare innovation since 2009, in-itially in the service of NV Economische Impuls Zeeland, later as an entrepreneur. Together with Petra de Braal he took the initiative to start the Zeeuwse Huiskamer. Innovation, drawing on the stories of people. Solidarity University was established from this collaboration. After studying theology at Utrecht University, Roos worked for 10 years in the various positions in the ICT sector.

Petra de Braal studied psychology and comparative cultural sciences at the University of Ghent and formed the Solidarity University with Arend. She is responsible for devising and developing the projects that are linked to the Solidarity University. She does this in collaboration with many people and partners based on her experience and expertise, and her ability to look at everything with a ‘look of wonder’ in order to arrive at a fresh, new approach - what we would call truly authentic person centered experience based co-design. For more information https://solidarityuniversity.org

The Practice Development Team at Dementia UK joined us in the summer as new international organisational fellows of the Centre and we are really looking forward to planning how we might support practice development initiatives together. Dr Penny Dodds is already an individual fellow and could see the benefits of bringing her whole team on board to work with our networks for the future. Penny has completed a phase of a Practice Development /Participatory Action Research Project which has introduced PARO the Socially Assistive Robotic seal (Artificial Intelligence) to NHS De-mentia care settings in Sussex. In collaboration with the University of Brighton, their work focused on attending to the Infection Prevention and Control Challenges and barriers that arose during the introduction of PARO. They offer, to an international au-dience, protocols which were used and showed how the use of PARO as a therapeutic device in everyday practice was possible within the NHS infection prevention control standards. Their work is informed by the Framework for Responsible Innovation and how practice development approaches can be used to facilitate exploration of new practice and challenge barriers which might inhibit innovation. Further information is in : Dodds, P. Martyn, K, Brown M. 2018. Infection Prevention and Control challenges of using a therapeutic robot. Nursing Older People. 30 (3): 34- 40.

International Fellows Networking Event Summer 2018This summer’s event was buzzing with creative energy as we collaborated with SeaSalt Learning to test out their prototype Social Landscape of Trust research with the fellows to enable them to get critical feedback and develop their ideas further.

A range of fellows’ new initiatives and activities will be launched in the Spring so watch this space.


Living with Frailty Dr Shibley Rahman, international fellow, researches long-term conditions, particularly frailty and dementia, speaking regularly on the implications of diagnosis and post-diagnostic care, as well as wellbeing, and advocates rights-based approaches. Dr Rahman’s book, Living Well with Dementia, won the award for best book for health and social care in the BMA Book Awards 2015.His latest book Living with Frailty draws together the latest biomedical evidence and good practice in this emerging area and explores ideas about assets and resilience, the role of society and the social model of disability in relation to frailty, arguing that insufficient attention is paid to positive action such as developing bone strength, maintaining good nutrition and exercising. Chapters look at:

• existing models of frailty• person-centred care• assessing frailty and quality of life• how falls, and fear of falls, relate to discussions of frailty• delirium and frailty• the environment and frailty• sarcopenia.

Living with Frailty is an important introduction and reference for all practitioners, researchers and students with an interest in frailty, wellbeing and social approaches to health. Forewords by Professors Ken Rockwood, Dalhousie University, and Adam Gordon, Nottingham

My Way Code My Way Code: a mental health programme for young people and adults aims to help build emotional resilience, autonomy, personal responsibility and identity. A new person centered app has been designed to help people navigate their best lives. Using signs, maps and tools My Way Code asks questions in a private, fun, interactive way, giving the user the opportunity to learn about themselves and build their own personal toolkit of resources on the way.

Devised by Soni Cox, an experienced and BACP accredited Counsellor and Supervisor, the idea and innovation for the My Way Code programme is developed from her client work – creating an opportunity via technology for anybody to work through the life lessons not all of us get to learn safely in our own development. The user can choose the depth of their work, finding their own way through the life journeys; regularly reviewing, tracking and celebrating progress.

My Way Code have run a community development program co-designing content for the activities in partnership with the WHIS (World Health Innovation Summit), and have developed, piloted and launched the first core journey

(Physical and emotional Health) a Primary School Program using My Way Code as the framework. So far, more than 2000 children have taken part in our local Cumbrian Primary Schools and they have now released the content in the form of a manual, so it can be delivered in the UK and abroad. The initiative has associate facilitators from across the world including USA, UAE, Brazil, Switzerland, Norway, Nottingham and London.

Gareth Presch, the founder of WHIS, has been appointed an expert lead for delivering SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing & SDG4 Quality Education for the UNSGII Foundation’s project to deliver all 17 SDG’s into 25+5 cities around the world by 2030 with interest in WHIS’s programs being part of the solution in delivering these aims. This opportunity for WHISkids for under 11-year olds and the digital WHIS My Way Code App partnership for young people and adults means there are exciting times ahead in making a real impact on people’s ability to navigate life making healthier choices for themselves, their families and communities. www.whiskids.com/www.mywaycode.org/www.ungsii.org/

NATIONAL NEWS


World Health Innovation Summit

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We are delighted to announce that the World Health Innovation Summit (WHIS) is now an official partner with the United Nations Global Sustainability Index Institute and founder Gareth Presch has been invited to become the expert lead on Sustainable Development Goals 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing) &4 (Quality Education) -https://www.ungsii.org/sdg-cities

WHIS is a global platform that empowers people and communities to improve

their health and wellbeing while generating value and sharing it. This is achieved through five pillars – WHISKids, WHISatwork,WHISSeniors,WHISGreen and WHISTech. To find out more connect with www.whisinspire.com; www.whistalks.com.

Burdett Funded Leadership Project: Strengthening Nurse, Midwife, AHP Leadership in all Contexts

The Burdett funded project due to complete in January is led by Professors Kim Manley (ECPD) and Belinda Dewar (University of West of Scotland) and aims to identify how to strengthen nurse, midwife and AHP leadership across the UK in all contexts –practice, research, education and strategically. Four country workshops in collaboration with the University of Ulster and the University of Bangor have recently been completed with participants nominated as leaders across different contexts by peers and others working together to make sense of

the data emerging from the project so far as well as challenging our boundaries of thinking. The University of the Third Age as citizen representatives have contributed to and worked with participants in these workshops to ensure that we keep a focus on communities and also value the contribution from our older citizens who bring a wealth of expertise and insights from previous fields of work.

Read more about the project at https://www.blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/ecpd

Through a small seed grant from the University, the Centre has been developing a UK wide framework based on a strong foundation of past research undertaken by Professor Manley and colleagues in the area of consultant nurse, midwife and allied health practice (AHP) and their role as clinical systems leaders. The project has attracted interest from Health Education England who are now co-branding the work and linking it to the Advanced practice agenda across all disciplines. Over 360 individuals and organisations registered to provide critical feedback on a capability and impact framework, the majority from

England. The consultation will enable a final version to emerge and on which further work is being commissioned by Health Education England with a focus on self-assessment, narratives to illustrate impact and resources to support educational journeys. The analysis has been supported by ECPD honorary fellow Dr Jane Christie from Scotland.

Consultant Practitioner Capability and Impact Framework


New partnership with Guys’ and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust ConsultingThe ECPD and the consultancy team at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust (GSTT Consulting) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) relating to the potential collaboration on the provision of healthcare redesign at national and international level. The ink has only just dried so we will report on pipeline project opportunities in the future.

NHS Celebrates 70 Most Influential UK Leaders on its BirthdayProfessor Kim Manley, CBE, Co-Director of the England Centre for Practice Development (ECPD), has been celebrated on the NHS’s 70th birthday as one of the 70 most influential nurses to have helped shape services and the profession over the past 70 years. Kim has held a joint Clinical Chair appointment with East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust since 2013 and has helped to embed transformational research and develop innovative health and care services across Kent and Medway. Her contribution to leadership development is helping the NHS to build capacity for the transformational change it needs to continue to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Kim has inspired many new and established NHS leaders through her practical application of theory and research, and has enabled and empowered others by sharing her

“Kim is a leading icon who has helped to shape the careers of many others we see in leadership positions today. The University is lucky to have such an in-spirational figure working at its core for the benefit of communities regionally, nationally and internationally.”

- Carrie Jackson, Director, ECPD

knowledge, skills and insights. She has published extensively and serves as a PhD examiner all over the world. Kim is increasingly recognised as one of the leading figures in embedded research in the UK and describes her work as ‘swampy lowlands research’ as opposed to ‘ivory tower’. She strives to identify the workplace cultures and conditions that enable people to thrive and flourish, and enable change to be successfully embedded.

Ransackers Association NewsOrganisational Fellows the Ransackers Association (RA) provide an update through Hilary Farnworth, their Vice Chairperson, for this newsletter.

In recent years a recurrent issue that RA has been concerned about is the difficulty older people face when trying to buy new phones or computer kit: what to choose, what will the real costs be, and will the staff in the high street shops sell you the right gadget?

So when the International Longevity Centre (ILCUK) launched their “ Innovating for Ageing” project , with a search for consumer problems which affect older people and need innovative solutions, we presented this issue as a digital exclusion issue. ILCUK had about 100 problems submitted, ours got through and we presented a pitch at their event in the spring to a packed audience of business people, innovators and IT boffins. At the

time of writing we wait to find out if our issue was chosen by any of the innovators who are coming up with solutions under this project!

The new Ransackers website has been designed with a blog on the home page , events news easily available, and static information (e.g. its history, research, newsletters etc.) available via the menu. The rationale for this is to present Ransackers as an active association committed to education for older people. They invite guest blogs and blog contributors, on any issue relevant to later life learning, study, informal learning, and other learning challenges which beset older people.www.ransackersassociation.org

There is also now a Ransackers Twitter presence: @RansackersUK

REGIONAL NEWS


Futures Academy Summit explores potential for transdisciplinary approach to improve the long-term health and wellbeing of communities

In July academics came together at an event hosted by the University’s Sustainability department, the England Centre for Practice Development, The Bay Trust and the Carbon Free Group to explore the potential of transdisciplinary research and enterprise in improving the long-term health and wellbeing of communities.

The summit identified the opportunity to bring together the work that colleagues from education, social sciences, human and life sciences, and health and wellbeing have been doing with the Bay Trust to create more strategic approach. This approach, with the support of Mike Weed, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) and the Senior Management Team, has culminated in a new Memorandum of Understanding being established between The Bay Trust, Dover Christ Church Academy and the University. The Summit forms the foundation of an ambitious ten-year plan for collaboration and enterprise which will generate opportunities for students, practitioners, researchers and academics, council, voluntary and third sector groups and other interested stakeholders, to work

creatively with communities and the commercial sector to shape future wellbeing with a focus on design, architecture and social innovation.

Our next steps are to launch a Futures Academy Community of Practice Enterprise Hub with an initial sandpit event planned for the 6th December to co create a postgraduate programme for Sustainable Coastal Community Innovation. In a break from tradition the programme will offer a new model of student led learning using a learning living lab approach focused on enabling students to develop confidence in designing innovative solutions to community issues, piloted through mentored placements offered by industry and commerce. This approach will be combined with webinars, masterclasses and bite sized residential learning blocks to create a flexible programme attractive to a wider audience of students who are not able to easily access the traditional blocks of learning that are offered. The initiative is being facilitated in collaboration with the University Sustainability Research Network, the Futures Initiative Team and the Enterprise and Employability team.

Developing a quality, safety and transformation research and practice development strategy across Kent & Medway

The Centre in collaboration with partners East Kent Hospitals NHS University Foundation Trust and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust are developing an integrated strategy for quality, safety and transformational research across the local health economy. The strategy will mirror a focus on health care integration, complement strengths in clinical research and grow research capacity and capability aligned to clinical academic pathways for all professions.Increasing integration across health care sectors to take a whole systems approach identifies the potential for growing the workforce in a more flexible way and provides opportunities for career development up and across career pathways that also enhances both recruitment and retention of staff (Manley et al , 2016).

The strategy is based on the successful model of the Research Champions programme, funded by Health Education England (Kent, Surrey and Sussex) run in collaboration with Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Kent. The programme aims to grow research champions in experienced staff with little research exposure. Successful participants are enabled 24 days backfill over one year and this involves attending a research ‘bootcamp’ collaboratively facilitated with Professor Tricia Wilson from the Academic Primary Care Unit at the University of Kent. Participants have to complete a literature review, evaluation or develop a research proposal relevant to everyday practice and are mentored in their workplace. To complement a strong focus on clinical research, there is a need to build a quality, safety and transformational research.


Supporting people with learning disabilities at end of life: An evaluation of a training programme to increase staff skills to enable people to meet their wishes at end of life

This collaborative project between KCHFT, Pilgrims Hospice and Canterbury Christ Church University was funded by Health Education England (KSS) to support the workforce to develop the knowledge, skills and competences to provide appropriate care and advanced planning for people with learning disabilities at the end of life. A two day training course for nurses, allied health professionals, doctors and care workers who were interested in developing their skills and confidence in end of life care for people with learning difficulties was facilitated by Pilgrims Hospice and repeated on six occasions in total across Ashford,

Canterbury and Dartford between November 2017 and April 2018.The Centre was commissioned to evaluate the impact of the training course on the knowledge, skills, competence and confidence of the course participants. The aim of the course was to develop staff competence, and data analysis demonstrates that the six participants believed that the course had helped them to improve their knowledge, skills, confidence, and competence. All of the participants found the course relevant, applicable, and stated that it provided the opportunity to learn more about end of life care for patients with learning disability.

Developing a community of practice around capacity planning for the Kent and Medway STP

Dr Abraham George, Consultant in Public Health at Kent County Council has included the Centre in a new Community of Practice in Kent and Medway to support the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) for the local health economy.

The Kent & Medway STP represents a £3.6 billion health and care economy with a population of over 1.8 million with 8 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and 2 county councils responsible for much health, social care and public health commissioning across hundreds of local care providers. To date, the STP /Accountable Care Organisation (ACO) planning process has been largely carried out by successive external consultancies using different analytical methods and assumptions generating different results. This poses challenges in their adoption and application for future forward planning at a whole system level. As part of the Health Foundation Advancing Analytics programme, funding will be used to set up a local ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP) or peer learning group that will oversee the development, validation and use of a set of activity, finance and workforce planning models using a consistent set of assumptions and underpinned by a well established modelling methodology known as Systems Dynamics (SD).

The CoP will heavily depend on 4 things:

1. Training and mentoring support from Whole Systems Partnership (WSP), a specialist consultancy in the field of SD, having already completed a variety of demand modelling projects in Kent over the last 2 years across a number of programme areas such as mental health, fuel poverty, healthy lifestyle, frailty and other integrated care initiatives. A new Darzi Fellow will be joining the CoP this year to provide additional project management. 2. Use of variety of national and local data sources, particularly Kent Integrated Dataset, a pilot programme which has been in existence for a number of years to link person level health and care administrative data for applied analytics. Such a dataset will help considerably in generating complex assumptions ie. Risk attributable fractions (for different risk factors, population groups & service contact rates) which will underpin model calibration, initialization and high level flow dynamics. 3. Regular engagement and participation from a select group of committed local health and care staff from different organizations and professional backgrounds – clinician, commissioner, senior analyst & finance. Staff have the option of participating at different levels – core, associate or as friend (see picture) depending of the level of expertise they wish to adopt.


4. Robust governance and leadership from the K&M STP to ensure the CoP are focused developing the right models to test complex commissioning scenarios

While the lead organisation for the project is Kent County Council Public Health, governance will be primarily through the STP Shared Health and Care Analytics Board (SHcAB) which reports

to the STP Clinical and Professional Board. The project will be evaluated by an academic partner to ascertain how well the CoP has developed, including level of engagement, skills adoption, sustainability and whether each model has informed strategic decision making across the system. The SHcAB has recently discussed the possibility of developing a national apprenticeship standard

emphasising training in systems thinking and skills in simulation methodologies. Discussions are under way with other local and national organisations to explore next steps. Such professional development in this way will go a long way in benefitting commissioners and health professionals using the right set of tools in testing new interventions and models of care and making the investment / disinvestment choices.

Six months on a Darzi Fellow has joined the CoP to help coordinate and manage its development, with support from WSP. Workshops are now held every six weeks and are growing in popularity. The most recent one drew an audience of up to 40 participants across a range of professionals from local government, STP boards, local commissioning services to NHS management. The theme this time focused on workforce planning, which is a critical workstream and enabler that cuts across most of the Kent & Medway STP priorities. Hour long webinars are also scheduled every other week to assist particularly core members with the development of their models, troubleshooting technical aspects of model design and conceptualisation. Sessions are recorded for the benefit of the rest of the CoP and uploaded onto the NHS Futures Collaboration platform.

Some of the models in progress:

Education Health Care PlansModel conceptualisation involves the

system of referral, assessment and production of Education Health Care Plans (EHCP) for vulnerable children and young adults 25 in the borough, providing extra timely support for those in need. Assessments can be requested by teachers, doctors, health visitors and, recently, parental referral. By mapping out the system, it has been possible to identify where delays are occurring, and the queues are building and simulate the benefits of range of different improvements especially shortening time taken for EHCP referral, assessment and completion.

Hospital Critical Care demand in East Kent

There are three intensive care units in 3 different hospital sites in East Kent, which have encountered challenges in meeting service demand in recent years. Hospital clinicians have requested support from the CoP to develop a systems dynamic (SD) model that would

deliver a better approach in forecasting bed and workforce requirements over the next 10 years, taking demographic, hospital reconfiguration and other service changes. A first model draft is being prepared for discussion using data from the Kent Information Data Set (KID) and other local sources.

These and other models’ development frequently use assumptions from the Kent Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) population cohort model, which is part of wider plans modernise the JSNA development process and make it more of a forward planning tool. The Children & Young People’s component was recently featured in the 2018 Public Health England Conference

https://www.pheevents.org.uk/hpa/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=14410

Regional health partners learn more about new Kent and Medway Medical School

More than 50 key representatives from health organisations across Kent and Medway participated in a special forum to discuss what the region’s first-ever medical school will bring to the area and how they can contribute to its success. A collaboration between Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent, the Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS) brings together the combined strengths of both universities, and local healthcare organisations, to offer a new model of person-centred medical education. The first intake of

undergraduates will be in September 2020. Participants were welcomed by our Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Rama Thirunamachandran and the University of Kent’s Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Karen Cox.

Rama and Professor Cox said: “We were delighted to welcome so many of our regional health partners to this event. Their support for the School is integral to its success and we were grateful for this opportunity to not only discuss with them our vision for the future and their role in it, but also to hear their thoughts and feedback on the progress we have made since the School was announced and our plans going forward.”

The vice-chancellors, alongside colleagues that included Debra Towse, Dean of the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Medical Education Development) at Christ Church, and Dr Peter Nicholls, Kent’s Dean for Health, discussed their shared vision for KMMS as a beacon for first-class medical education and research, and how it will help address the healthcare provision challenges in the region.

This includes the ability of KMMS to attract the most talented aspiring doctors from within the local community and beyond, offering training and development opportunities with local partners that will help to keep that talent in Kent.

The forum, which took place at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus, was attended by a wide range of practitioners, including those working in general practice, psychiatry, social care and medical training.


The East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Achieving and Celebrating Excellence (ACE) recognition programme gave three awards to Community Children’s Services, Speech and Language Therapy and Bisophstone ward for person centred

high quality care excellence. The initiative is supported by the England Centre which has been developing a critical mass of transformational leaders through the interdisciplinary clinical leadership programmes we have run in the Trust for the past four years. These

awards demonstrate the impact that our collaborative work at the front line with all health professions has had on delivery of quality services for our local population in Kent.


Feminist Research Working Group Benefit from Working Retreat

In late July a group of researchers came together in Norfolk for a 3 day inspirational working retreat to advance their interconnected research projects and forge a collective of feminist healthcare researchers. The retreat was possible through support from the Futures Initiative and England Centre for Practice Development.The group comprised researchers working in ECPD and the wider Faculty who research from a post-human feminist perspective. Their combination of different, yet interrelated, health research made for a retreat environment that was supportive and stimulating for all. In keeping with the post-human theme, Miniature schnauzer Professor Esme and Norfolk Terrier Miss Meg accompanied the group to offer companion species support. Professor

Esme features here, pictured outside the retreat accommodation.Activities on the retreat included intensive blocks of writing, reading, and discussion, which resulted in project data analysis, the drafting of research funding bids, and papers for publication and conferences. Creative activities, such as storytelling, poetry, and drawing, stimulated intellectual thought and imagination.The retreat accommodation had no internet access or television, thereby providing a space away from everyday distractions and an atmosphere that enabled continuous and focused work. The retreat meant the PAKT Feminist Research Group was able to officially form, agree its purpose, aims, terms of reference, and a plan of action for collaborative work going forward.

Helen Stanley Helen has now transferred from MPhil to PhD exploring ‘a ‘Realist Evaluation of the impact on workplace teamwork and culture of the learning and development strategies in a Clinical Leadership Programme’ and has taken this work forward with a presentation of a realist synthesis of clinical leadership programmes to the Bristol Business School at the University of the West of England and to the NET2018 interprofessional networking conference in Cambridge. The theme of clinical leadership and its importance and how to evaluate the impact of programmes resonated with national and global leadership and educational audiences. She attended the Enhancing Practice Development Conference in Basel, Switzerland in August and gave a paper on ‘Practice development in Clinical Leadership Programmes – what works best for whom, when and why’ and facilitated

a ‘Home Group’ plenary each day which was synthesised with the group into a collage on Practice Development and its place in the real world influenced by the themes and issues raised for her group. This interesting conference brought together practice development staff from across the globe with the aim of further developing the theory of practice development: see https://www.enhancing-practice-conference.org/galleries

Work on developing persona templates for the RCN/HEE Careers framework project has now included one for Nurse Educators and a presentation of ideas for careers to capture the diverse roles experienced in Clinical Nurse Educators (CNE) at the UKCNE Network event in Wolverhampton.

PhD STUDENT NEWS



PublicationsWright, T. & O’Connor, S. J. (2018) Reviewing Challenges and Gaps in European and Global Dementia Policy, Journal of Public Mental Health.

Manley, K., Martin, A., Jackson, C. and Wright, T. (2018) A realist synthesis of effective continuing professional development (CPD): a case study of healthcare practitioners’ CPD. Nurse Education Today, 69. pp. 134-141. ISSN 0260-6917.

ReportsJackson, C & O’Malley S (2018) Supporting People with Learning Disabilities at end of life: An evaluation of a training programme to increase staff skills to enable people to meet their wishes at end of life. Health Education England (KSS) report October. (awaiting ISBN)

Jackson, C. (2018) Report on the impact of the Futures Academy SummitA potential blueprint for the next decade. July. Higher Education Funding Initiative Report, Canterbury Christ Church University. ISBN 978-1-909067-89-9

Jackson C, & Wright, T. (2018) Survey of international experts to build consensus about optimum care standards, educational programmes, care environments & technological developments for people living with dementia. CASCADE project report.June. ISBN 978 - 1 -909067 - 86 – 8.

Martin, A & Jackson, C (2018) A Scoping Review of Staff Training and Education Needs. CASCADE project report. June. ISBN 978-1-909067-84-4.

International Conference SymposiaManley, K., Jackson, C., McKenzie, C., Martin, A., Wright, T. (2018) Using participatory, practice development, delphi and realist research approaches to understand how frontline teams can use the workplace to integrate learning, development, improvement and innovation. Symposium. Royal College of Nursing International Research Conference, 17-19 April, Birmingham.

Manley, K., Jackson, C., McKenzie, C., Martin, A., Wright, T. (2018) Using participatory, practice development, delphi and realist research approaches to understand how frontline teams can use the workplace to integrate learning, development, improvement and innovation. Symposium. STTI 4th Biennial European Conference, 4-6 June, Cambridge.

International Conference Presentations and Workshops

Manley, K., Jackson, C., McKenzie, C., Martin, A., Wright, T. (2018) Transformational theories for continuous professional development (CPD): the workplace as a resource for learning and improving. Enhancing Practice 2018 Leading and Facilitating within Practice Development 22-24 August, Basel, Switzerland.

Manley, K., Jackson, C., McKenzie, C., Martin, A., Wright, T. (2018) Quality clinical leadership for improving patient safety with patients, carers and staff centre stage. Enhancing Practice 2018 Leading and Facilitating within Practice Development 22-24 August, Basel, Switzerland.

Cardiff, S., Manley, K., Sanders, K., Webster, J. (2018) Recognising and developing person centred, safe and effective workplace cultures that are also good places to work. Enhancing Practice 2018 Leading and Facilitating within Practice Development 22-24 August, Basel, Switzerland.

Regional Conference presentations

Jackson, C (2018) The CASCADE project. Kent and Medway Partnership Trust Brain Health Conference, 17th July 2018 St Martins Hospital, Canterbury .

Jackson, C & Brighton, P. (2018) Vision for the Future – The Dementia Village Cascade Project -Outside in and Inside Out East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust NHS 70 Years Celebration Conference Friday 18th May 2018, Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, Canterbury.


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