(Newswire.net — December 11, 2013) Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey —
News – Beacon Organisational Development is confirmed as the Thought Leading Partner on Emotional Intelligence for www.govtoday.co.uk Beacon will be presenting a Master Class for Health & Social Care Integration Best Practice.
Health and Social Care integration is considered to be critical, hence, it is consider that the time is right to make behavioural insight centre stage in the challenge to shift the locus and effectiveness of care.
£3.8bn has been allocated to fund health and social care integration and additional resources continue to be poured into UKs overstretched urgent and acute care. There is much concern regarding the risk that this money will be used to fund yet more structural change which cannot succeed without behaviour change of all actors in the system.
Neslyn Watson-Druée, CEO of Beacon Organisational Development said:
I am delighted that Beacon has been chosen to provide thought leadership and to contribute to an important agenda.
Oliver Hambleton, health partnerships & industry engagement lead said:
We are delighted Beacon Organisational Development will be joining us to deliver the Masterclass session at the Social Care 2014 conference. Beacon’s track recorded is well acknowledged and documented.
The clients of www.govtoday.co.uk have been asking for more attention to be given to emotional intelligence. It is considered that the time is right to address leadership behavioural skills.
A recent imPOWER report http://www.impower.co.uk/public/upload/impower%20QOB%20report%20final.pdf
is somewhat pessimistic about progress so far. The report states that, momentum needs to increase, however, the Association of Director Social Services have suggested integration is going to be contingent on support & experience driven collaboration.
It is recognised that structural ‘big system’ change alone will not bring about the needed integration because behavioural norms for professionals are stronger than the creation any new system. Behaviours need to be tackled directly.The report asked question – regarding sufficient, direct focus on behaviour and the following comments are made:
The issue of behaviours in the health service is not a modern one. As far back as 1956 Arthur Blenkinsop MP noted in the Jameson Working Party report that “co-operation between General Practitioners and health visitors… is lacking in many cases at the moment.” Fast forward half a century and one of our senior interviewee’s stated “It’s in the integration and the hand offs that things still go wrong.”
The report states: Clearly we are still wrestling with the same challenges around behaviour and integration. This serves to highlight the crucial point that even with new systems and structures in place, if professionals and patients don’t use them the way we intended, the systems and structures won’t work.
The imPOWER report highlighted further that trust, relationships, behaviour and experience are real drivers of positive outcomes. Yet there is danger of losing sight of the behavioural dimension.
Having searched for an ideal partner to become a thought leader on emotional intelligence www.govtoday.co.uk selected Beacon Organisational Development. Beacon has a track record in leadership development a few examples include:
- A demonstration leadership development programme for the NHS
- Emotional intelligence accreditation programme for coaches
- Steering innovation and implementation at the executive level underpinned by experience on diverse boards
Beacon Organisational Development learning and implementation master class on 19 March 2014 at Brewery Conference Centre will address key elements of emotional intelligence leadership competencies that are critical for effective integration of health and social care (http://www.socialcarereform.co.uk/programme ).
In the interim Beacon will be posting articles on the website of www.govtoday.co.uk