NHS Wales

Our Approach

• Acting as an embedded member of the Health Board’s newly established central Change Hub, we worked with Programme Directors across the Strategic Programmes, the Deputy Director for Strategy & Planning, and key members of the Strategy & Planning Team, to rapidly design an approach to governance within strategic programmes. At the core of the approach was balancing the need to ensure robust governance and assurance to Executive and the Board of the organisation, while trying to reduce time spent on reporting to free up Programme Directors’ time for value adding activity across their programmes.​
• This included embedding an operating within the Strategic Programmes team including fortnightly Executive meetings and establishing a monthly Strategic Programme Steering Group, with clear terms of reference and reporting requirements. ​
• In addition, we provided focused support to individual programmes, that included leading and facilitating a series of virtual workshops to advance the approach being taken to clinical service redesign, and coaching and supporting several key members of programme teams, helping them to develop their thinking and initiate their programme in full.