Stories
Our approach has been informed by NHS doctors and managers who have found ways of inspiring their teams, and ideas from leaders such as Transport for London's David Waboso and Buurtzorg's Jos de Blok.
We invite people who inform our approach to present at our twice yearly events. The following videos are taken from several of these occasions.
Patrick Addison: Medirota - Our Experience
Patrick Addison, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Rota Master for the Plastic Surgery department at NHS Lothian, examines how Medirota helped to transform patient flow, improve training, and reduce the use of waiting list initiative sessions within his department.
Jos de Blok: Keep It Small, Keep It Simple
Jos de Block, founder and CEO of the home-care nursing organisation Buurtzorg, explains how Buurtzorg is able to provide effective and efficient care through its atypical organisational structure of self managed teams and innovative methods of practice.
Vicki Gibson: Implementing Medirota
Vicki Gibson, Assistant Directorate Manager for the Division of Surgery at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, talks us through how the experience of implementing Medirota led to the realisation of several benefits and improvements for the General Surgery department at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
Dr David Raw: Improvement as a Social Pursuit
Dr David Raw, Deputy Divisional Director of Surgical Services at Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, discusses how improvements are better made with an inclusive and collaborative leadership approach, building engagement and support from the bottom up rather than the top down.
David Waboso: Delivering integrated solutions through collaborative working
As part of our overall Spring 2015 event highlights video, David Waboso CBE, Capital Programmes Director for London Underground, explores how increasing the effectiveness of professionals requires building collaborative teams that share information in the service of a common purpose.
Catherine Johnson: Transforming Anaesthetics
Catherine Johnson, Deputy Director of Operations and Transformation at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, discusses how they used CLWRota to improve their anaesthetic service as part of a wider set of improvements at the Trust, which raised their CQC evaluation from inadequate to good.
James Downer: Implementing CLWRota and Medirota at St George's
James Downer, General Manager for Orthopaedics, Major Trauma and Plastics at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, describes why he introduced Medirota into the Trauma and Orthopaedics department following his experience of using CLWRota in Anaesthetics, and the savings he expected to achieve as a result.
Dr William Wight: Using CLWRota to Manage Department Efficiency
Dr William Wight, Clinical Director of Anaesthetics at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, part of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, discusses how to track and improve department efficiency in the context of managing fellow professionals.
