Matthew Bell
CEO
POP
England - South West
Biography
I am a Dad and husband. My son is 5 and we live down in Devon.
I trained as a product design engineer in Glasgow, but then moved into local government, then into a charity. I was with Exeter Community Initiatives for 8 years, running it for 4 as the chief executive. I have since worked supporting the NHS with the SW AHSN, worked in social investment and now lead POP+ a charity in Plymouth that supports the growth and capacity of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.
I am very interested in how the health and care system can shift away from a predominately paternalistic view of health to one that is more about empowerment. I believe there must be a balance between the two approaches and also believe it will take great effort to get there.
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Blog posts
Building blocks of change
This blog is part of a series of reflections by the Re-imagining Healthcare SIG. Here Matthew Bell summarises the building blocks for change he thinks is needed at organisations move to dynamic and collective structures of control, authority and assurance.
Tension 6 – status & control vs listening to everyone
This blog is part of a series of reflections by the Re-imagining Healthcare SIG. Here Matthew Bell shares his thoughts about the last of six 'tensions' that surfaced during his efforts to create organisational change.
Tension 5 – uncertainty vs wellbeing (getting the stretch just right)
This blog is part of a series of reflections by the Re-imagining Healthcare SIG. Here Matthew Bell shares his thoughts about the fifth of six 'tensions' that surfaced during his efforts to create organisational change.
Tension 4 – permission vs stepping in
This blog is part of a series of reflections by the Re-imagining Healthcare SIG. Here Matthew Bell shares his thoughts about the fourth of six 'tensions' that surfaced during his efforts to create organisational change.
Tension 3 – starting with problems vs starting with strengths
This blog is part of a series of reflections by the Re-imagining Healthcare SIG. Here Matthew Bell shares his thoughts about the third of six 'tensions' that surfaced during his efforts to create organisational change.
Tension 2 – organisational vs team or individual starting points
This blog is part of a series of reflections by the Re-imagining Healthcare SIG. Here Matthew Bell shares his thoughts about the second of six 'tensions' that surfaced during his efforts to create organisational change.
Tension 1 – pace vs patience
This blog is part of a series of reflections by the Re-imagining Healthcare SIG. Here Matthew Bell shares his thoughts about the first of six 'tensions' that surfaced during his efforts to create organisational change.
Learning from real life: a story of change and challenge from the South West
This blog is the start of a series of reflections from the Reimagining Health and Care SIG. In this first installment Matthew Bell candidly shares the challenges of moving to a networked organisational structure and some hard personal lessons learned.
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Areas of interest
- Collaboration and networking
- Commissioning
- Community and voluntary
- Inequalities
- Leadership
- Mental health
- Older people
- Person-centred care
- Policy
- Primary care
- Social care
- Wider determinants of health
- Workforce
Groups
- Tools and resources to help support Networks and Network leaders
- South West Q
- Liberating Structures in healthcare
- Closing the gap: developing improvers for a complex world
- Q Special Interest Groups/Communities of Practice
- Reimagining Health and Care
- Q Lab – peer support group
- Primary Care
- Co-production
- Q Connectors