Case Studies

Tower Hamlets PCT Case Study
Leadership development to enable improved service outcomes.

Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust Case Study
The Trust Medical Director invited Healthskills to engage in some developmental work with the care of the elderly team.

Lincolnshire PCT Prescribing & Medicines Management Team
A long-term team development programme across a county-wide PCT to merge three medicines management teams from separate PCTs into one coherent, effective organisation.

South East Coast Ambulance Service Case Study
Organisational and Board Development to support Foundation Trust application.

Berkshire East PCT ‘Developing Leaders as Coaches’ Programme
A ten-month programme for twenty-five senior managers in a PCT to develop improved leadership behaviours and in particular, coaching competencies during 2008.

Ashton Leigh and Wigan Community Healthcare
Supporting the formation and development of a new provider organisation as it moves toward Foundation Trust status.

Wakefield Integrated Substance Misuse Service (WISMS)
An investment of expertise, energy and resource commitment from three partner organisations, aiming to achieve a radical change in care for substance misusers through positive and effective change in culture and leadership.

Practice in Crisis
A large inner city GP practice was regarded as “failing” by the PCT and despite previous interventions had failed to sustain any real improvement.

Learning Accelerants
Healthskills compliment traditional methods of developing people with interventions that rapidly embed skills, behaviours and step change performance.

Commissioning and Service Redesign
Strengthening the position of medicines management in the commissioning and service re-design environment delivered in conjunction with AstraZeneca and facilitated by Healthskills.