02.10.13
NHS Change Day wins innovation award
The grassroots initiative to improve healthcare by action has won a global challenge for management innovation prize from Harvard Business Review and McKinsey.
NHS Change Day started as a conversation on Twitter in 2013 between Helen Bevan, chief transformation officer at NHS Improving Quality’s Horizons Team, Dr Damian Roland and Dr Stuart Sutton.
It resulted in 189,000 people – staff, patients and the public – making pledges to improve healthcare. Pledges included creating local health champions, better feedback facilities and IT support.
Bevan – who has contributed to NHE – said: “It is extraordinary that what started as a group of us chatting online could lead to a nationwide movement with so many people taking action.
“Although these actions could, and should, be taking place every day, NHS Change Day has acted as a unifying opportunity to remind, re-energise and re-focus energies in improving the care the NHS provides.
“This award is not just for the team who first developed the idea but for every single person who took part. NHS staff are passionate about their work but all too often we question what difference we, as individuals, can actually make. NHS Change Day proved we can all do something to ensure we provide the best possible care and experience for the patients we serve.”
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