GGI National NHS NED Development Programme: Peer to Peer Weekly Meeting with Philippa Singer and Mason Fitzgerald | 1 July 2022

As part of its mission to promote good governance, GGI will host these facilitated, weekly 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

Chaired by Dr Usman Khan, Managing Director, Good Governance Institute

Joined by Mason Fitzgerald, Senior Consultant, Good Governance Institute and Philippa Slinger, Senior Associate, Good Governance Institute

Agenda: Mason Fitzgerald and Philippa Slinger will lead out a discussion titled ‘The day has arrived... 1 July 2022: the new ICS World’

• The key things boards should be focusing on
• The recent guidance out to consultation on the code of governance
• Principles for partnership working that apply to trusts

About Mason Fitzgerald

Mason has recently joined GGI as a consultant following 19 years working in NHS provider organisations, working in four different systems. He originally qualified as a barrister and solicitor and is currently qualified as a company secretary and HR professional and has also lived and worked in New Zealand and the United States.

Mason has been an executive director responsible for strategy, organisational development, governance, performance, and workforce at East London NHS foundation Trust, which achieved an outstanding CQC rating, and has an internationally renowned quality improvement programme. Working with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Mason led the development and implementation of an innovative and ambitious outcomes-focused strategy for the organisation that profoundly changed the culture, structure, and operations of the Trust. Mason was also the executive lead for Tower Hamlets Together, a vanguard site and national thought leader for system working, which included the development of an integrated commissioning function, place governance and a provider alliance to deliver community health services.

More recently Mason was Deputy CEO and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, where he developed the Trust’s first Partnership Strategy with a focus on working with the VCSE sector and put in place joint transformation functions with local commissioners. He actively contributed to the development of system working and place-based arrangements in both the Norfolk & Waveney and Suffolk & Northeast Essex ICSs.

Mason has worked nationally with NHSI and the King's Fund to develop the Culture and Leadership programme and with NHSI/CQC to develop the well-led framework.

About Philippa Singer

Philippa joined GGI as senior associate in November 2021, bringing years of experience as a leader in healthcare across sectors. She has held senior roles is NHS England as a director, as Chief Executive of an integrated system, NHS trust chief executive, NHS Improvement as an Improvement Director and in the private sector as a managing director.

Prior to joining GGI, Philippa was the chief executive of Devon STP, where she developed her strategic planning and leadership skills in a system context, co-producing, with multiple partners and sectors the architecture for system collaboration and self-regulation; developing performance and financial improvement plans to address significant organisational and system challenge, working with all stakeholders to engage them in cross system working and collaboration.

Philippa is an expert on relationship development and management, collaborative working, and place-based partnerships with experience on both the regulator and provider side. She has worked closely with the third sector and local authorities to develop plans and strategies to improve population health and wellbeing and address socio-economic challenges, most recently around the impact of the pandemic on rural and deprived communities.

Philippa played an integral role in the transition of Devon STP to ICS and has years of experience managing complex service change, including reconfiguring secondary and tertiary services, and organizational transformation, working within organisations and with partners to design and develop systems of governance at place.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This meeting is by invitation and is open to all NHS Non-Executives 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