What NHS NEDs need to know about reviews and investigations | 21 July 2023

As part of its mission to promote good governance, GGI has been hosting facilitated virtual meetings to give NHS non-executive directors an opportunity to share their concerns, challenges and ideas as we rethink the future of health and social care.

The goal is to collectively think about the role NEDs play as part of the controlling mind of their organisations, to discuss immediate safeguarding issues and to ensure we all learn from this experience to assure better outcomes for citizens in the future. If you would like to join this meeting, please email events@good-governance.org.uk.

ABOUT:

'What NHS NEDs need to know about reviews and investigations' in conversation with David Walker, Chair, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. The session will be chaired by Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute.

In this month's NED webinar, we plan to 'flip the script' and hear from David Walker and Andrew Corbett-Nolan regarding the very topical issue of reviews and investigations.

NHS organisations are under unprecedented levels of public scrutiny and challenge. News articles over the last few days have included the national maternity 'crisis' and staff deaths related to estates issues. There are growing calls from campaigners and the public for formal inquiries, with the Essex mental health independent inquiry now becoming a statutory inquiry. And of course, organisation from a range of sectors, including media organisations themselves face their own challenges in this area.

The obligation for boards to have in place effective governance and assurance arrangements for reviews and investigations, and the need to ensure that action is implemented in an effective and timely manner, has never been more important, as is the need for effective stakeholder and reputational management.

GGI has, over many years, undertaken some of the most sensitive and high-profile reviews and investigations in the health sector and beyond. Andrew will share key aspects of GGI's experience and learning in this area and provide his thoughts about the questions that Non-Executive Directors need to be asking right now, to keep patients, staff and organisations safe.

The format of the meeting will be a short 'In conversation with ...' to start the dialogue followed by a peer-to-peer discussion welcoming feedback, questions and comment. This meeting is by invitation and is open to all NHS Non-Executive Directors, Chairs and Associate Non-Executive Directors of NHS Providers.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This meeting is by invitation only and is open to all NHS non-executive directors, chairs and associate non-executive directors of NHS providers. Others may attend by special invitation. For further details, comments, questions and suggestions please contact: events@good-governance.org.uk.

To register for this event, please click the link below:

We hope that you will join us for what will be an interesting and insightful discussion.

Should you have any questions, please contact events@good-governance.org.uk.

Next time – save the date

The next session will be held in September, date to follow.

About the contributors:

David Walker, Chair, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

David Walker is chair of Oxford Health NHS FT and formerly deputy chair of Central and North West London NHS FT.

After a career in journalism with The Times and the Guardian, he became managing director communications and public reporting at the Audit Commission. He has been a board member of Places for People, the Nuffield Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council and is on the council of Royal Holloway, University of London.

Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute

Andrew Corbett-Nolan is the Chief Executive of the Good Governance Institute, which he founded in 2009.

Andrew is well-known as a leading thinker and commentator on modern governance, and a practical facilitator and coach to boards across the public and third sectors.

His leadership of GGI is associated with developing a mature understanding of the challenges for boards in the modern world.

Heavily influenced by the work of Professor Mervyn King, Andrew sits on the board of the Johannesburg-based Good Governance Academy which is working to influence the curricula of business schools and universities globally. And in 2020 he became a Salzburg Global Fellow for his work promoting good governance as a means of creating social value, securing a prosperous future that is better and fairer for all.