Primary care latest updates

We are delighted to welcome Michael Reilly to our next Leadership Matters Conversations (LMC) session, taking place on Wednesday 24 May at 10.30am.

Michael’s session will focus on his view that the COVID-19 pandemic has created the biggest change to work since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line. As a qualified psychologist Michael has had director level roles in product development, business development and strategy at several organisations including BT, Orange and SiteKit Health.

In 2000, Michael was awarded his PhD in which he explored the relationship between actual management behaviour and exposed organisational values communicated by senior leaders in divisions of BT plc. Since 2005 he has worked in the digital transformation of healthcare development and supported with the deployment of innovative digital technology that delivers evidence-based improvements for both patients and clinicians.

As a psychologist Michael is trained is Gestalt Therapy. This is a client centred type of therapy that gets clients to focus on understanding what is really happening in their lives currently rather than what they perceive to be happening based on past events.

Join us on Wednesday 24 May, at 10:30 to understand more about how the pandemic has inherently changed the way we work.

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On Friday 12 May 2023 it is International Nurses Day.

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) will be hosting a virtual ‘Coffee, Cake & Conversation’ session for all nurses and midwives (currently on the register or retired) who would like to join Northamptonshire ICB Chief Nurse Yvonne Higgins and ICB Directors of Nursing Fiona Barnes and Mandy Staples to celebrate the profession. The open session on Microsoft Teams will be informal and there will be an opportunity to meet the senior nursing team at Northamptonshire ICB and acknowledge the ‘theme’ of this year’s celebrations – #NursesDay – the vital role that nursing makes.

All nursing colleagues are welcome to join Yvonne and the team on Friday 12 May between 10am and 11am. Please contact Anish Shah at anisha.shah1@nhs.net for the Teams invite.

Please can we ask that you forward on this invite to any nurses and midwives who may be interested in attending.

Royal and Derngate have reached out on behalf of High Performance, who are taking part in BBC’s Headfest next month. They would love to be able to offer some tickets to NHS staff to come and watch.

They are offering 2 tickets per booking (so two per member of staff).

The code for this offer is: NHSHF23

The show is on Sunday 7^th May at 7:30pm at Royal and Derngate.

More information can be found here: https://www.royalandderngate.co.uk/whats-on/high-performance/

Please be advised the MEQ is now published. Please see below the link to Find-a-Tender Service Prior information notice (prior information only):

Earls Barton Medical Centre and Penvale Park Medical Centre - Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk)

We are excited to announce that SIX headline speakers will be topping the bill at this year’s Northamptonshire Virtual Wellbeing Festival – and you can save the dates to your calendars right now!

Taking place from Monday 3 to Friday 7 July, the Virtual Wellbeing Festival 2023 (VWBF23) will feature a different headliner each day plus a double bill on the Monday. Joining us for this year’s Festival will be:

• Gok Wan – style guru, TV presenter, DJ and chef who strives to inspire people to love their curves, their heritage and anything that makes them unique.
• Paul Merson – professional footballer turned TV pundit who speaks openly about his struggles with addiction and mental health issues.
• Harnaam Kaur – TV personality and fearless body positivity activist who has embraced her body in all its glory to become an international icon for self-love.
• Vex King – bestselling author and mind coach who overcame a difficult childhood to rise to fame on social media and become a major voice in the world of personal development.
• Debra Searle – professional adventurer and serial entrepreneur who has successfully rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean and was recently ranked the top female motivational speaker in the world.
• Ayo Sokale – BBC presenter and civil engineer who has a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome and is an inspirational keynote speaker on neurodiversity, mental health challenges and how to overcome them.

Our VWBF23 headliners are just part of an exciting programme of entertaining, inspiring and informative events taking place throughout Festival week. All sessions are hosted online and completely free of charge – exclusively for health and social care colleagues in Northamptonshire.

To add any of our headliner sessions to your online calendar, just visit the VWBF23 website at www.wellbeingfestival.live and click on the Headliners page.

Further details of the remaining Festival line-up will be announced soon and you can be among the first to find out more if you register for updates now.