Charlie Helps Associates: Recent Episodes
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Introduction: The NHS Improvement and Assessment Framework (IAF) for 2025/26 is set to replace the current NHS Oversight Framework, reflecting a new operating model for the NHS. It is being introduced in the context of significant pressures (elective backlogs, urgent care demand, financial constraints) and a national push for system-level working through Integrated Care Systems (ICSs). […]
From the ashes of the Bristol scandal, Clinical Governance has risen to become a transformative force in the NHS. It's a testament to the NHS's capacity for learning, adaptation, and unwavering commitment to improving care. It is the bedrock of NHS Quality Management, Healthcare Regulation, and Patient Safety.As the NHS faces the complexities of the 21st century, a robust and evolving Clinical Governance system isn’t just important – it’s essential. By embracing its principles, nurturing a culture of quality and safety, and relentlessly adapting to new challenges and opportunities, we can ensure the NHS not only endures but thrives, delivering safe, effective, and truly patient-centered care for generations to come. The story of Clinical Governance is a story of ongoing evolution, a gripping narrative of learning from the past, and a powerful commitment to a future where quality and safety are not just aspirations, but the very essence of the NHS promise.
How do NHS Boards get their assurance? The transformation from “internal control” to “Board Assurance Framework” (BAF) represents a significant shift in both terminology and practice that has had far-reaching implications for NHS governance. In this brief article, we’ll trace where the concept of “assurance” came from, and how it has taken eyes off both […]
Join us for the 8th Good Governance Academy Colloquium with Professor Mervyn King to hear from the global experts on Impacts, Outcomes, and Integration in the Corporate World.
How’s your Reputation Looking? In business, openness, transparency, and communication are the building blocks of trust. Trust is the foundation of your reputation.
Austerity’s Victims exposes the reality, describing in detail the lives of five men living in Cornwall. Their income, below the relative poverty threshold, is compared with national/county medians and the Minimum Income Standard of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Their quality of life, as support and benefits are cut away, is also examined and shown to fall a long way short of the wellbeing defined in the 2014 Care Act.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life is maintaining a close watch on standards issues arising as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chair of the Committee’s Research Advisory Board, Professor Mark Philp, discusses how the Nolan Principles can be used to help negotiate the challenges we face when making decisions during the COVID-19 crisis.
We believe “governance” begins with people, and their choices, and their decisions, and their voices. We will work with you to bring your governance to life and to give you a fighting chance of avoiding national disasters like we are seeing played out at Carillion PLC.
Could Corruption Drive a Reformation Outrage at corruption drove the reformation 500 years ago, could similar outrage drive a modern economic reformation?
The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The quality of our thinking depends on the way we treat each other while we are thinking.
Using our Transforming Meetings Programme™ clients save as much as 1/3 of time spent in meetings, enhancing clarity of purpose and thought, and optimising decision-making.
Leading a team who do not share the same physical space with you can be tough. How do you impart values, standards, and behaviours to people who are on the other side of the world?
These 7 critical factors make or break the success of any board of directors or top team. How many do you get right?