Next week is the annual NHS Foundation Trust Network
conference, now in its 5th year. This year it’s a 2-day event –
evidence of the sector’s growth and development, and of course the huge change
going on in the NHS right now. As ever, MES and its parent company ERS will be
there chatting to clients, putting our feelers out and keeping our ears to the
ground.
In advance of that, today we’re launching our
publication about
the sector’s impact on engagement. In
2012, it is difficult to get through the day without seeing or hearing a news
story, a government initiative being launched or a campaign commencing that
talks about the importance to engage with us all. We should all be engaging – being consulted, taking part, being
listened to, no decision made about us without us and so on.
But the model was not so prevalent pre-2000. The creation of
the FT-model in 2003 saw the start of what today is such a well understood and
identifiable approach. Our Bulletin 6
explores how we have got to where we are today in some detail, and how
the FT membership model has had a massive influence.
Earlier in the week I spotted a really good article by Dr CrispinButteriss of Bang the Table
that attempts to put the science into participation and engagement, by
exploring the relationship between quality and quantity. Again, in the FT sector, this has been a
continuous debate these past 8 years. Here is a taster:
It then goes on to give some tangible links of where daily
engagement tools may sit on this curve:
I was terrible at science at school but I get this! What do you think?
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