Heads Up 1 May 2013 Update for the NHS Yorkshire and Humber Regional Leadership Council

We are building a better and brighter NHS – are you in? News Flash NHS Leadership Academy Professional Development Programmes (aka Core Programmes) Launch Today! For more information go to Application Date : 14 June 2013

National News Core Programmes Nursing and Midwifery Programme Regional Leadership Awards Five flagship Professional Development Programmes Programmes aimed to support aspirational leaders at all levels, each named after an inspirational historical leader in health and care, launch on 1 May. Details and an online application for cohort 1 commencing September 2013 are available on the NHS Leadership Academy website. NHS YH have 400 funded places for the Mary Seacole programme, 40 for the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Programme and 20 for the Nye Bevan Programme – Full funding is only guaranteed for this year so we have an opportunity to maximise our uptake and get maximum benefit from this national investment – please pass on details to whoever you think might be interested Copy for inclusion in local newsletters is included with this Heads Up should you wish to use it A workshop with YH leadership development leads and the Academy programmes lead is being held on 21 May to plan recruitment and implementation please feel free to join or send on to your local leadership development contact For further information on any of the above, please contact These programmes aim to maximise the contribution of nurse leaders to their current role An independent evaluation of our first YH participants’ experience was overwhelmingly positive. 100 further places, 50 on each programme, are now planned for YH. We already have a waiting list but further applications are welcome. We would particularly welcome applications from nurse leaders in primary and community care as these are under represented in our current applications. For more details please David Nicholson has now formally signed off the proposal to introduce a new programme of Regional Leadership Awards to feed into the National Awards Scheme. Plans for these are moving apace and we anticipate launching in early June. More details will be following shortly. Meanwhile HSJ are requesting nominations for inspirational women in healthcare.YH must have a rich source of these – make your nomination at

Regional News Vision and Strategy OD network Talent Listening Events Evaluation Workshop We have launched our Leadership 2020 Vision and Development Strategy consultation – details of how you can contribute will follow shortly. Please let us know if you have network meetings you would like us to include in this consultation. Contact We are getting a very positive response from strategic OD and transformation leads across YH to the new network and development programme. 17 of them created a successful and stimulating sharing event last week in response to the Francis report. For details of the programme and feedback from the Francis workshop, please contact Invitations for our regional Evaluation event on 11 June have now been sent out to HRDs, Leadership and OD leads. This workshop will share our collective thinking about what leadership development interventions are proving effective and how we evidence these. If you haven’t received an invitation and are interested in attending, please contact The Talent Listening workshops with the Academy have been arranged for 23 May (Sheffield), 24 May (York) and 29 May (Leeds). These are open to anyone who is interested in, has experienced or is providing leadership talent development in the region. They are designed to help co-create a new shared approach to talent development across the NHS. On 11 July HRDs, Leadership and OD leads and E&D leads, together with current participants and alumni from our regional talent development programmes are being invited to attend our YH talent Day. For more information or to book a place contact