Health and Social Care Publications
Access e-books addressing various topics across health and social care, and access recommended reads by our members for members.​
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You can attain 2 HPL points for reading each of these recommended titles:
Wellness: The elephant in the room
If you are working on a wellness project, please share your ideas, innovation, and thoughts about the book HERE.Â
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By sharing, together, we can make this collection a growing library of inspiration. Together, let’s ensure that wellness is no longer the elephant in the room.
200 Questions for the Future of the NHS...
This book is dedicated to the fabulous NHS people who, time and again, deliver more, for less… It has been written with the help and guidance of professionals in the Service and the members of the IHSCM.
A People Plan for Social Care
A comprehensive People Plan for social care has been long awaited and the Institute of Health & Social Care Management (IHSCM) and the IHSCM Social Care Innovators People Plan Sub-Committee has proactively addressed the deficiency here. We engaged in a three-month consultation where all current leaders in social care were provided with the opportunity to advise their comments for this report so that a People Plan for the sector could be created by the sector instead of just for the sector.
This group is very active and for people keen to bring change and innovation to the social care sector.Â
Chairs: Sue Jones and Palvi Dodhia
Bereavement: A Practical Guide for NHS Managers
To help frontline staff and managers, Jules Lewis, Roy Lilley, Jules Lock, Professor Anne Faulkner & Liz Prior have produced a guide to help everybody understand what is required of them, and their organisation, when coming into contact with recently bereaved relatives and friends.
The Winters Tale
The Winter’s Tale, written in collaboration with Richard Vize, is the culmination of a series of in-depth interviews undertaken with acute trusts across England about their experiences of surviving another winter.
The report focuses on the processes and behaviours of the emergency teams that are managing to deliver outstanding results despite the ever increasing challenges. The report is a must for anyone that works in or interacts with A&E departments or is interested in how human factor changes can positively influence difficult situations.
Building Future Leaders
The NHS has, for a number of years, been widely perceived as being in the grip of a ‘leadership crisis’, with many key posts unfilled or filled by interims, and a high turnover of senior staff. A third of NHS trusts have vacancies for key leaders at board level or interims in post. Almost one in six have no substantive chief executive, and the same number have no substantive medical director. At present, the average tenure of an NHS chief executive is only two and a half years.
Fairness at Work
The research is clear. Treating healthcare staff fairly and with respect improves the health and well-being of staff, improves how organisations work and enhances patient care and safety. Ensuring that the talent of all who work in the NHS is recognised and developed is essential. Equality and diversity are enshrined in the NHS Constitution. They are statutory obligations for healthcare employers. They are written into your contracts of employment.
This guide signposts the framework employers must work within, the approaches that are more likely to work, and where to find more information.
An A-Z of Management
This book is a collection of advice, ideas, anecdote and fun that Roy Lilley has collected over the years. It is partly tongue in cheek and partly deadly serious. If it makes you think, it’s done its job.
70 Questions: A Workbook for the Board and Senior Managers
We were delighted to partner with IMS MAXIMS on the launch of Roy Lilley’s book ’70 Questions: A workbook for the Board and Senior Managers’, to celebrate 70 years of the NHS.
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You can attain 1 HPL point for reading each of these recommended titles:
Virtual Wards
Emerging from the pandemic and faced with an overwhelming
number of patients on waiting lists, the NHS is turning to
efficiency gains and innovative treatment options.
One innovation, not entirely new, but about to be implemented
at scale is the virtual ward.
We held a Virtual Wards Round Table on 15th February 2022, hosted by Roy Lilley. WATCH NOW.
Roy was joined by an expert panel to discuss the details around virtual wards: Professor Alison Leary, Elaine Strachan-Hall, Steph Lawrence, Alexandra Evans and Dr Elaine Maxwell.
If your organisation is running or planning to run virtual wards, then you simply have to watch this event on catch-up and read the event informed publication on key topics that were emphasised, explored or challenged.
A People Plan for Social Care: The Summary
This People Plan is the result of a 3-month consultation with care managers, providers and leaders and frontline staff by the Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM) and the IHSCM Social Care Innovators People Plan Sub Committee. The people plan sub committee was formed August 2021 and consultation ran through to the end of November 2021.
Creating Stronger Relationships Between Managers & Clinicians
Clinicians and managers work in a range of settings across primary and secondary care. In 2013 the NHS alone employed 147,087 doctors, 371,777 qualified nursing staff, and 36,360 managers. This paper focuses particularly on the relationship between clinicians and managers within acute settings, although some of our recommendations may apply to other sectors.
There’s Room at the Top: A Fast Track Guide To Writing a CV
The NHS is undergoing another big change.
The chances are you will be put in a position where you’ll have to apply for the job you are already doing or perhaps move on. Either way you’ll need a CV – the right CV.
Roy Lilley has produced this easy to read guide to help you produce a tailore CV to get the job of your dreams, or to ensure you keep your existing one.
Read this guide to Bragging with a purpose.
The Overwhelmed Manager​
Martyn Dawes has shared his wonderful book with us “The Overwhelmed Manager”. He speaks about what to do when you don’t know what to do, it is time to redress the balance,
to not be ashamed to ask for help.
To love ourselves again, this book is for you.
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