Friday 23 May 2025 | 14:15-15:15<\/strong><\/em><\/p> Format: Presentation<\/strong><\/em><\/p> Stream: Leading<\/strong><\/em><\/p> Content filters: Recommended for those working at system level in QI<\/strong><\/em><\/p> Session chairs:\u00a0Alexander Hijmering<\/strong><\/a> FORWARD; Netherlands<\/p> PART ONE: Anti-racist leadership in action\u00a0<\/strong><\/p> This session will explore anti-racism as an embodied leadership practice and approach to organisational development and improvement.<\/p> We\u2019ll share learning from Activate, a ground-breaking leadership development collaboration between two prominent health and care charities, brap and The King\u2019s Fund.<\/p> Participants will leave the session better able to:<\/p> This session will showcase the work of senior White leaders across the UK National Health Service.<\/p> By the end of this session, participants will be able to:<\/p> Simon Newitt<\/strong><\/a> The King\u2019s Fund; England<\/p> Joy Warmington<\/strong><\/a> BRAP; England<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> PART TWO: \u201cBeyond our comfort zone\u201d: addressing systemic racism, privilege and power to improve patient experience in a low-secure mental health unit – sponsored by Virginia Mason Institute<\/em><\/strong><\/p> \u201cHaving worked in public services for many years, this is the best example of a clinically driven project that is genuinely making a difference. The way that you have truly co-produced in partnership with lived experience is fantastic.\u201d<\/em> (CEO, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT)<\/p> Between August 2023 and June 2024, colleagues at Forest Lodge low secure inpatient unit in Sheffield were one of fifteen teams across England to take part in the first phase of the Mental Health Act Quality Improvement Programme \u2013 commissioned by NHS England and jointly delivered by Virginia Mason Institute and The PSC.<\/p> In this session, the team will share their deep exploration of the impact of systemic racism, privilege and power on the ward, together with their co-produced improvement work \u2013 some more traditional, some quite radical \u2013 to improve the equity of experience of all patients, and especially of those from ethnically diverse communities.<\/p> By the end of this session, participants will be able to:<\/p> Kim Parker<\/strong><\/a> Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust; England<\/p> Wendy Korthuis-Smith<\/strong><\/a> Virginia Mason Institute; USA<\/p> Gambinga Gambinga<\/a><\/strong> SACMHA Health & Social Care; England<\/span><\/span><\/p> Carl Reeves<\/strong><\/a> Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT; England<\/span><\/span><\/p>
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