Interviewing HealthCare Leaders – Quality vs Finance? Can they go hand-in-hand?

Are We At Last Joining the Dots to Transform Our Health and Social Care System?

This week, in the final of a four-part series of the August Newsletter, I am speaking with five senior healthcare leaders starting with Iain Alexander , a PwC Partner in the Government restructuring business who leads the CRO+ team, Chris Bown , a highly experienced NHS Chief Executive, Liz Ashall-Payne , award winning Healthcare Entrepreneur, who is the Co- Founder and CEO of ORCHA, Dr Rachael Grimaldi , a Healthcare Entrepreneur, Co-Founder and CEO of multi award-winning digital communication tool CardMedic, and Julie Jaye Charles CBE , NHS Board Advisor and Lead on Co-production Advocacy at NELFT NHS FT, Ministerial & Government Advisor, and multi-award-winner for her work in disability, equality, diversity, intersectionality and inclusion.

Hear them talk about:

Quality and Financial Improvement as we ask the big Qs –

·???????Quality vs Finance?

·???????Can they go hand-in-hand?

·???????Can we realistically deliver both simultaneously? How?

?Here is Iain Alexander sharing his experience on –

Q: Can we deliver all three priorities of quality, financial and operational improvement simultaneously? What is the complexity to overcome? Is the money a symptom or the underlying cause of quality and operational issues?

Chris Bown shares his thoughts on –

?Q: What quality and financial pressures are you seeing return in the NHS?

Liz Ashall-Payne on –

?Q: With financial pressures back in the NHS and Social Care how does digital health technology help deliver better quality and financial improvement? What examples are there to demonstrate that?

Q: Is the investment in digital technology recurrent and allocated in NHS and Social Care budgets to make the improvements sustainable?

Dr Rachael Grimaldi on -

?Q:?How are healthcare providers overcoming costly miscommunication issues?

And,

?Julie Jaye Charles CBE on –

Q: What is the impact of healthcare inequalities on quality care and the amount of money we spend?

And we continue with developing these key themes next month in our September Edition when we are in conversation with several more healthcare leaders on the real issues that matter.

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Guest Speaker Bio/Profiles:

Iain Alexander - Iain is a PwC Partner in the Government restructuring business and leads PwC's CRO+ team, placing individuals and teams into distressed organisations to work alongside management to rapidly develop and execute turnarounds and transformation. He has supported over 100 NHS organisations with large and complex change programmes.

Chris Bown, a highly experienced NHS Chief Executive with over 35 years’ experience in senior board level leadership roles, the last 17 as a CEO. He has worked in some of the NHS's most challenged hospital trusts. He has practical experience of leading organisations through significant change and service transformation in very challenging environments to deliver improvements for patients with a focus on whole system integration, partnership and transformation. He also does advisory roles in the UK and overseas.

Liz Ashall-Payne, award winning Healthcare Entrepreneur, who is the Co- Founder and CEO of ORCHA, a digital health care platform for rated and reviewed medical and health care apps. She believes that in a world with thousands of apps available to download, it is more important than ever to have a rating system in place where health care apps are validated and are able to be recommended for use by the public and professionals. Interested in digital innovations in Health and Care she is motivated to continuously transform care, utilising resources most effectively with the opportunities these innovations offer. Her driving philosophy is to create responsive Health and Care systems, based on need, which promote health, reduce inequalities and ensure improved outcomes for users and their experience of care.

Dr Rachael Grimaldi, a Healthcare Entrepreneur, Co-Founder and CEO of multi award-winning innovative digital communication tool CardMedic, and a practicing NHS anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street Hospital, who is on a mission to make patient communication in healthcare more accessible.

Julie Jaye Charles CBE, NHS Board Advisor, Ministerial & Government Advisor, and multi-award-winner for her work in disability, equality, diversity, intersectionality and inclusion, As Board Advisor and Lead on Co-production Advocacy at NELFT NHS FT, she channels her boundless energy into projects to benefit the disadvantaged, and especially people with disabilities from Black African and Asian communities. She talks about her work and how to tackle systemic racism in the NHS.

Author Profile

Obi Hasan

Obi leads complex transformation programmes and financial improvement programmes as Programme Director, bringing together multiple stakeholders across organisational boundaries in challenging environments to engage and deliver system transformation with new ways of working.?He has over 20 years’ board level experience in the NHS and private Healthcare, and extensive experience in other private sector industries as Transformation Programme Director, Financial Improvement Director, ICS Programme Director, Elective Care Recovery Lead, Chief Executive, Finance Director, Board Advisor and Coach/Mentor.?In the NHS, Obi has worked with 20 Trusts to-date, often in double special measures, delivering transformation and financial improvement programmes with an integrated approach to quality, finance and operational efficiency. In private Healthcare, he has delivered Transformation and Improvement Programmes in the UK and international healthcare organisations.?