Discover the latest Solving Together blogs here.
Solving Together, making change happen | Update 28 June 2023
“Great change starts with small conversations amongst people who care” Margaret Wheatley
Thank you for being part of the Solving Together community where we encourage people to share ideas, challenge assumptions and provide solutions, with a ‘no wrong answers’ approach. We'd like to share an update on what’s been happening with Solving Together, share some of our thoughts and signpost you to some great resources.
Spreading the word!
As you know, by signing up to the Solving Together platform you will have access to lots of resources and also, when we are actively crowdsourcing challenges, the opportunity to post ideas and experiences or engage with other people’s posts. If you haven't signed up yet, click the 'register' button at the top of your screen. We are hoping you will join us by helping increase access to this platform so your colleagues and peers can get involved too. Please do share this link to register on the platform: www.solvingtogether.crowdicity.com .
Let’s keep Solving Together….
In between the active crowdsourcing challenges there is lots of work still to do! The journey from posting an idea, adding a comment or voting is shown on the Solving Together Roadmap.
From crowdsourcing, through theming, prototyping and testing to scale and spread. This wealth of ideas is contributing to solutions for the biggest challenges currently facing our health and care service. Here are a couple of examples:
• Creating an NHS ‘volunteer army’ to take medicines into people’s homes, carry out shopping and other errands to support people to be discharged from hospital earlier in the day. Hospital Discharge crowdsourcing has contributed to NHS Care, the NHS and social care volunteers programme launched by Social Care Minister, Helen Whately in June 2023.
• In response to a clear message that we heard during the crowdsourcing phase of the Elective Care Recovery challenges, in April of this year the first national summit on using data to drive inclusive recovery of elective services was held. The summit was a partnership between Professor Bola Owolabi, Director, National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme at NHS England; Sir James Mackey, National Director of Elective Recovery and Solving Together. The event brought together local and national teams from across the country to share learning and to begin working collaboratively towards this goal. Following the summit, discussion around health inequalities and elective care continues on the Health Inequalities NHS Futures space. Please do sign up to this community where you will be able to access the keynote presentations, recordings of case studies, and a range of other resources and information.
• The Q Community has identified a number of ideas submitted during the Elective Care Recovery crowdsourcing to support their work and activities with their members. This ensures all ideas contribute to improvement programmes across England. You can hear more about this in the School for Change Agents’ ‘Agents Assemble’ podcast where Solving Together Programme Director Bev Matthews talks with Tim Ferris, Director of Transformation at NHS England about the opportunities for ensuring we make every contribution count.
Continuing the conversations and staying connected
We have a very active influencing presence on social media. For the latest news and to stay connected with the Solving Together community, keep in touch through our channels: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook or contact us at england.solvingtogether@nhs.net
The Solving Together team hopes this update has been helpful. We look forward to keeping in touch with you and your networks.
This post was edited on Jun 28, 2023 by Leigh Kendall
Comments (2)
Thanks for the energy and ideas to everybody involved. As a person who has had a recent and unplanned hospital stay, this works resonates with me. The sketch note helps me see a picture of whats happening and the different parts in a complex process. Dialogue is so important to create ownership and helps create a movement for change.
Jude Goddard
Hi Jude, thank you for taking the time to comment. I'm really pleased to read that the roadmap sketchnote helps you to visualise the Solving Together process. I'm sorry to hear you had a recent unplanned hospital stay and hope you're on the mend.
Thank you for being a part of the Solving Together community!