1. TCS Multi-Professional Leadership Challenges Registration Guidance Document page 1 of 3 TCS Multi-Professional Leadership Challenges for all Primary & Community Care Clinical Teams (GPs, Nurses, AHPs, Social Workers, etc) Coming to Your Region Feb-March 2011 A series of collaborative, 1 day, leadership challenge events to identify the best regional and national clinical teams, within community and primary care, are coming to your region in February – March 2011. The Transforming Community Services Leadership Challenges will create a condensed, virtual best practice learning environment where multi-professional teams will arrive with a service improvement idea. Through a facilitated process, the teams will be challenged to collaboratively demonstrate the validity of their scheme, assessed by a panel of multi-professional experts to determine the winning team from each region. Each regional winning team will be awarded £50,000 to implement their scheme for the first year. The aim of the leadership challenges are to develop empowered, autonomous health and social care professionals to lead change through innovative service improvement. This will drive up clinical leadership and enable multi-professional, collaborative decision making in the commissioning, planning and delivery of patient focused, high quality, clinical services in alignment with GP Consortia. The 10 regional challenge events will take place in each SHA region in February and March (dates below) 2011, with the winning team from each region going forward to a high-profile, national showcase event in London in March 2011. The challenges are open to all health and social care professionals e.g. GPs, AHPs, nurses, social workers, assistants, etc, working within a community service pathway. To participate in the challenges please read the remainder of this guidance document before completing and emailing accompanying registration form to melissa.fileppi@dh.gsi.gov.uk ASAP or at the latest by the registration close deadline for all regions: 5pm 21 January 2011melissa.fileppi@dh.gsi.gov.uk Calling All Primary and Community Teams (GPs, NURSES & AHPs) YOUR SERVICE NEEDS Are you part of a winning clinical team? How would YOU improve your service?

2. TCS Multi-Professional Leadership Challenges Registration Guidance Document page 2 of 3 Dates - TCS Multi-Professional Leadership Challenges Tuesday 8 February 2011 - South West Region Wednesday 9 February 2011 - South Central Region Monday 14 February 2011 – South East Coast Region Friday 18 February 2011 - East Midlands Region Monday 28 February 2011 - North West Region Tuesday 1 March 2011 - Yorkshire and Humber Region Friday 4 March 2011 – East of England Region Tuesday 8 March 2011 - North East Region Wednesday 9 March 2011 - London Region Tuesday 15 March 2011 – West Midlands Region Thursday 24 March 2011 - London (TCS LC final event) Please note: Venues and locations are currently being finalised and full details will be confirmed on registration, venues will be easily accessible within your SHA region and likely to be in the locality / town of your SHA office.

3. TCS Multi-Professional Leadership Challenges Registration Guidance Document page 3 of 3 Registration Process: The Transforming Community Services Multi-Professional Primary and Community Care Leadership Challenges are aimed at developing empowered, autonomous professionals. The Challenges will promote integrated, collaborative working aligned to GP commissioning consortia. This “improvement through leadership” initiative will see the development of patient centred service improvement, aligned to the Quality, Innovation, Prevention and Productivity (QIPP) agenda, along with the SHA and local provider priorities. The registration process encourages multi-disciplinary teams working collaboratively to implement innovative service solutions for real local issues. Each winning team, per region, will be awarded £50,000 to implement their service improvement idea for 1 year following the event and we envisage a continual multi-professional working relationship to further influence multi-professional commissioning decisions. Criteria: The TCS Multi-Professional Leadership Challenges are open to all front line clinical staff involved in primary and community service provision, working along a community service pathway. Team Criteria: Your team must*contain a GP, an AHP and a Nurse working within a primary and community service pathway. The remaining members of the team are at your discretion. However, we encourage teams to further expand on the multi-disciplinary, integrative approach, with inclusion of other disciplines and/or sectors relevant to your service improvement idea: e.g. a patient representative, social worker, the voluntary sector (professionals and non professionals are welcome - i.e. health care assistants etc, as well as an inclusive approach of different grades or band levels where applicable. Team Size - we recommend each team consists of between 6 – 8 members, we will however endeavour to include those who want to send less (minimum 4 per team) and those who want to send more (maximum 10 per team). Once your multi-disciplinary team has been decided, it will be beneficial for your team to meet once in order to: - finalise your registration form - choose a name for your team - brainstorm new service improvement ideas** that you wish to submit with your registration **Service Improvement ideas: The ideas can just be a ‘thought’ that any member of the team has had about how delivery of their service can be improved: i.e. ideas around patient need or pathway improvement, improvements in the quality of patient care, to increase clinicians’ time with patients and/or decrease administrative time etc. We suggest that your ideas align with SHA and/or local priorities and evidence financial viability, taking into account the £50,000 award for winning teams. We recommend your team select a maximum of 3 ideas to submit with your registration, which will form the foundation of your “improvement through leadership” challenge. Registration Deadline: On completion of the above process please email accompanying completed registration form to melissa.fileppi@dh.gsi.gov.uk ASAP, as places are limited, or at the latest by 5pm - 21 January 2011. *Please note: we are keen to be as inclusive as possible and for all community health and social care professionals who wish to participate, to have an equal opportunity to do so, if you are an individual wishing to take part in these challenges but are unsure of how to put together a team or any other part of the application process, please talk to your line manager about assistance to form a multi-professional team to complete and submit your application. If you are a community service director / manager wishing to put together a team from your service, it may be worth nominating a local co-ordinator or project manager for this task. If you still have difficulty meeting all the criteria of teams - i.e. ‘teams must include a GP’ or you cannot think of 3 ideas etc.- still email your registration form with proposed team and service improvement idea/s to melissa.fileppi@dh.gsi.gov.uk and we will individually assess the application for inclusion. This is a unique multi-professional opportunity to develop individual leadership skills, whilst building more effective services for the future, that will influence GP led commissioning consortia and deliver services with citizens at the centre. If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to email melissa.fileppi@dh.gsi.gov.uk