Annabelle Burns
Head of Integration
Homerton University Hospital
England - London (North, East and Essex)
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Annabelle Burns posted an update in the group Reimagining Health and Care 4 years, 7 months ago
Hi All
I was wondering if there are any AHPs on here who have explored the principles of self management in their services? I am a speech and language therapy manager in community paediatrics. i’m interested in the principles and ideas, wondering how to make the next steps…. -
Annabelle Burns joined the group Allied Health Professions in Quality Improvement 4 years, 8 months ago
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Annabelle Burns posted a new activity comment 5 years ago
That’s the sort of thing I was thinking: QI training alongside some actual projects where the theory could be put into practice. I think that working towards shared aims in a project can really build bridges and shared understanding across boundaries.
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Annabelle Burns posted an update in the group Building improvement capability across boundaries 5 years ago
In our borough we are moving towards integration between social care, education, health and the voluntary sector. I’ve noticed anecdotally a real disconnect between how the different agencies approach quality improvement – the language we use, the ethos, the values, the practical methodology. I think reflecting critically and making improvements…Read more
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I really think you are onto something there Annabelle. I was only talking to someone else about this last week who was working as a health professional in children’s social care.
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My colleague and myself will be working on something around this. We have found that there probably still is a huge gap in the understanding of QI in Social care – they seems not to know anything about SPC and would benefits of simple tools to transform processes in a services they managed.
The project that we are considering to apply f…Read more
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That’s the sort of thing I was thinking: QI training alongside some actual projects where the theory could be put into practice. I think that working towards shared aims in a project can really build bridges and shared understanding across boundaries.
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I’ve done some work with the Fire Service that then led to us working with with Social Services. We used QI methodology – but this was guided by us. We would have liked to have taken this a step further but this requires a considerable amount of time and committment beyond one project. I have certainly come across (and hear of others in) Social…Read more
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Annabelle Burns joined the group Building improvement capability across boundaries 5 years ago
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Annabelle Burns's profile was updated 5 years, 1 month ago
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Annabelle Burns posted a new activity comment 5 years, 1 month ago
I manage a Speech and Language Therapy team which is funded by the LA and NHS, as well as other funders. We are talking about joint commissioning but making this a reality is mainly talk at the moment. On the ground we work together well but joining up at the top seems trickier. We found that the joint area SEND inspection was a good experience…Read more
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Thats interesting, I would be interested to hear any progress you will be making. I am currently at the start of some analysis in SEND, but the team there is so stressed. But we have found some very odd behaviours that the system and stress is creating in the SEND staff. The amount of waste and poor communication is being seen as being a…Read more
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Hi @annabelleburns
Great that you’re thinking about how self-management could work for Allied Health Professionals. There certainly feels like there could be huge potential here (Brendan from Buurtzorg UK & Ireland is happy to chat, as mentioned).
Interestingly, there is a Buurtzorg-inspired Blueprint for children’s social care launching later…Read more
Thanks, I’ve send Brendan an email so thanks for the connection. @danny-buerkli I’d be interested to hear more about the blueprint and how it coudl be applied more widely.
Hi Annabelle, I supported a team of physios to move to this way of working. Happy to share if that’s helpful.
best wishes
Jane
That woudl be great. I’d love to know how they began the journey and the barriers they encountered, as well as what worked well. What was the role of the managers in the process and how did the staff understand and participate in the change? DId it make a difference for them?
Hi @annabelleburns
Just thought I’d mention that someone in our recent SIG Zoom bookchat on ‘Brave New Work’ mentioned that these Tensions/Practice Cards can be a good way to get the discussion about changing our workplaces going: https://theready.com/store/tension-and-practice-cards
I’ve just bought a set. I plan to test them out with a…Read more
Thanks. I’ve got that book but i haven’t read much of it yet. I didn’t realise there was a website too – thanks for the recommendation.
What struck me so far from the book was the traffic lights vs roundabouts analogy. Working in the NHS, I definitely feel like we have a lot of traffic lights!
https://www.evolutionaryconnections.co.uk/uploads/7/4/1/4/74146039/intro_to_next_stage_organsiations___self_managing_teams.pdf free download of some basics and some traffic light exampes to share if thats useful 🙂