Let’s Focus on Workplace Culture and the Workforce

Hosted by the Dorset General Practice Alliance with The Primary Care Training Hub

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Spring Summit 2024
1st May 2024, 1pm - 5pm
Cobham Sports & Social Club, Wimborne

9
SPEAKERS

2
WORKSHOPS

5
STANDS

Explore the summit

What to expect at the Spring Summit?

The Dorset General Practice Alliance and the Primary Care Training Hub are jointly hosting our Spring Summit with a focus on improving the workplace culture and supporting our workforce. The Summit provides an overview on the Primary Care Training Hub support for practices in 2024 as well as outlining some outcomes from the Alliance Sustainability Project. We are aiming to provide you with practical, realistic strategies and ideas on how you can make a difference at work. You will participate in two hour long interactive workshops – one with a focus on leadership & coaching and the other will be using ‘lego’ to help you find solutions for some of the challenges you are faced with in practice life.

Speakers

Dorset GP Alliance

Dr Forbes Watson is the Chair of the Alliance and is a GP in Lyme Regis. Forbes was previously Chair of the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and Vice Chair of the Dorset Health & Wellbeing Board. Forbes has extensive clinical and system level experience and will ensure that the voice of general practice is not just heard but is at the forefront of how decisions are made in the Dorset ICS.

Tim was previously the Chief Officer at Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and Dorset’s Integrated Care System (ICS) lead. Tim is a qualified accountant and has over 18 years NHS Board level experience, including that as Director of Finance.

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Ian Gall is Chair of the Our Dorset ICS Public Engagement Group and of his GP practice Patient Participation Group (PPG) and is involved with other patient groups in Dorset and nationally which gives him a unique view as a patient representative, of the challenges and issues around delivering health care in Dorset. Ian is passionate about developing a consistent approach to working with people and communities across Practices and PCNs and ensuring that communication and engagement deliver on what matters to people, by listening and acting on what they say.

Primary Care Training Hub

After over 15 years of Learning & Development and Organisational Development Leadership experience in the private sector, becoming a qualified teacher, coach, mentor and adviser along the way, Steve joined the NHS in 2014 heading up education and learning at Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group. In 2016 Steve took a key leadership role in establishing the new Primary Care Workforce Centre in partnership with Bournemouth University and Health Education England to transform workforce development and support in Primary Care. In July 2017, the ICS Workforce Team was established, to provide strategic workforce support for Dorset ICS, where Steve took on his current strategic role leading on Attraction & Recruitment & Workforce Transformation and the evolution of the new Primary Care Training Hub.

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Kate has worked within the NHS for 23 years across acute, community mental health and CCG/ICB sectors in various roles. She commenced working with colleagues within the Primary Care Training Hub in October 2022 and officially joined the team in February 2023 as the Senior Programme Lead. Kate’s experience covers both operational management and project/programme management which has been her main area of focus for the past 5 years. She is a qualified Project Manager with a keen interest in workforce transformation.

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Fran has 20 years' experience in organisational development, change and generalist HR. She has worked in health and social care across acutes, PCNs, and a large care provider before the ICB. And prior to this had her own business as a Change Consultant for large FTSE 100 organisations including KPMG and Computa Center. She is an ILM trained coach, certified team coach and Strength Deployment Inventory facilitator.

Primary Care Network

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Bulbb

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Richard is a Certified Facilitator in the LEGO Serious Play method and materials and has run workshops using LSP and other playful and not so playful methods for organisations of many kinds in the private, public and third sectors.
He is also an experienced manager and consultant with an MBA from INSEAD and more than 25 years’ blue chip experience leading projects and facilitating workshops across a range of disciplines including strategy, innovation, customer experience, corporate branding and digital transformation.
In a world that is that is changing at an accelerating pace, he passionately believes that purposeful play can help organisations and teams to solve some of their biggest issues. You can find out more on his LinkedIn page (Click Here)

Programme

1pm - Registration, networking and lunch

1.45pm - Welcome and introductions with objectives for the day – Dr Forbes Watson

1.55pm - Steve Aylwin and Kate Hall – the Primary Care Training Hub – Priorities for 2024

2.05pm - Tim Goodson, the Alliance – update on outcomes from the Sustainability Report including:

a. Romany Ross and Ellë Gray from Central Bournemouth PCN
b. Ian Gall – Patient and Public Lead for the Alliance – Relaunch of the Alliance survey

2.20pm - Introduction to the workshop sessions - sessions will run twice in parallel starting at 2.25 and 3.40pm

Workshop with Richard Gold - The Building Blocks of Cross Profession Collaboration - ‘Lego Serious Play’
Workshop with Fran Pingarelli NHSD and Kate Hall from the PCTH - Leadership, Coaching and Culture.

4.50pm - Closing reflections from Dr Forbes Watson and Steve Aylwin/Kate Hall PCTH

Workshop Sessions – The Building Blocks of Cross Profession Collaboration ‘Lego Serious Play’ with Richard Gold

An external facilitator Richard Gold from Bulbb ‘Lego Serious Play’ offering a different type of workshop experience that provides an interactive and exploratory session using lego to help find solutions for some of the challenges practices face in a safe learning environment.

What is Lego Serious Play?

LSP is a facilitated thinking, communication, and problem-solving method for use with groups. It uses LEGO bricks to build stories about the intangible ideas you work with in your business and brings them into the physical world using metaphor and play. Participants are led through a series of questions developed to suit the purpose of the workshop. Each participant builds his or her own three-dimensional LEGO model in response to the facilitator’s questions using specially selected Lego bricks. These 3D models serve as the basis for group discussion, knowledge sharing, problem solving and decision making. LSP taps into new neuroscience discoveries and the link between hand and brain. It draws on extensive research from the fields of business, organisational development, psychology and learning. It builds on learning theories of constructivism and constructionism – that we can build new learning in the mind by building in the world. LSP has been developed over more than two decades. It was created in the late 1990s by LEGO to bring greater imagination into LEGO’s own strategy process. After playing a significant role in Lego’s turnaround strategic planning, it was further developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into a number of different applications and is now used widely in organisations large and small, public and private around the world.

Workshop Session – Leadership, Coaching and Culture with Fran Pingarelli and Kate Hall -Slides from workshop

To deliver the best possible improvements in health and wellbeing for the people of Dorset, we need to adapt and change so that we are fit for the future. This interactive workshop will allow you to explore some of the neuroscience of change and how it can be best applied to support yourself and lead others through change. You will have the opportunity to: