NHS Confederation and Novartis: Community of Practice

Join our Community of Practice to share experiences, learn from best practice, and co-create solutions to benefit patients and the workforce alike.
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NHS Confederation and Novartis are delivering a Collaborative Working Project (CWP) to support the NHS to develop and adopt good practice in areas such as population health management, delivering health equity, and creating opportunities for collaboration to drive innovation. 

A measure of success for this CWP is the creation of a Community of Practice, which will bring together healthcare system stakeholders from across the NHS ecosystem, covering a variety of backgrounds, roles and localities. 

These stakeholders will be driven to transform health and care for patients, workforce and the healthcare system. The value of this Community is for its representatives to be able to discuss and address shared challenges in service delivery, be exposed to solutions that others have implemented, and co-create further solutions where needed. 

    • Discuss and share good practice and lessons learned from local efforts to innovate and improve healthcare planning and delivery; 
    • Identify and develop insights regarding key existing and emerging healthcare system challenges and priorities in service delivery;  
    • Co-create solutions to address said challenges; 
    • Review and critique support offers to systems which are under development. 
    • Optional attendance at two Community meetings per year; 
    • Contribute to shared repository collating good practice examples, case studies and other learning materials;
    • If applicable, showcase good practice via poster display or symposia at NHS Confed conferences such as NHS ConfedExpo
    • Provide feedback on draft tools and resources to support implementation. 
    • Early sight of investment being made in tools to support the NHS; 
    • Real-time understanding of existing initiatives which can be replicated in your own area;
    • Opportunity to help shape the development of materials and resources; 
    • Acknowledgement and thanks in publication of guidance emerging from the Community;  
    • Listed on Community of Practice webpage. 

For further information on the Community of Practice, please contact Charlotte Moss, Industry Engagement and Policy Manager at the NHS Confederation, at charlotte.moss@nhsconfed.org.

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About us 

NHS Confederation 

The NHS Confederation is the membership organisation that brings together, supports and speaks for the whole healthcare system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The members we represent employ 1.5 million staff, care for more than 1 million patients a day and control £150 billion of public expenditure. We promote collaboration and partnership working as the key to improving population health, delivering high-quality care and reducing health inequalities.   

Novartis 

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives.  

We use innovative science and technology to address some of society’s most challenging healthcare issues and we work together with the system to implement solutions that drive access for UK patients. 

From research to delivery, we are a valued partner in the healthcare ecosystem, supporting in times of crisis and beyond, to build solutions that provide better care and access opportunities for every patient in the UK.

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