Cath Barrow (she/her)

When people think they should take credit for stuff that’s been 3 years in the making #haveyoureownideas

En route to see those Gallagher brothers. I just wanna live forever ✌️✌️

Want to join our u13s Beacons team next season? Get in touch with Chris Clarke: +44 7984 355953

What a fantastic @AposHealthUK Masterclass for Greater Manchester today. Brilliant networking, discussions, and presentations form @WWLNHS @AposHealthUK and @HealthInnovMcr 👏👏👏

NEWS: Local change, national impact: the @HealthInnovNet 2023-24 Impact Report. We transform lives through innovation by supporting health and social care teams to find, test and implement new solutions to the NHS’s greatest challenges, driving economic growth for the country. 🔗Find out more here: bit.ly/4iyjNTB

I really like this new article on psychological safety (a belief that we can speak up, take risks & make mistakes without fear of being judged, humiliated or punished) at work. It sets out a series of activities/approaches that all of us can use to build psychological safety in our teams. These include: - Manual of Me - Team Charter - Lifelife - Activity from Google that ranks sources of anxiety - 5-word Fridays - Team temperature check uxdesign.cc/creating-psych…. By @ChristinaLai1, via @Elaineking91. A link to an archived version of the article, in case the above link doesn't work for you: archive.ph/VDr0k

📢 Register now for our iTind Roadshow! Are you a Consultant #Urologist looking to learn more about the iTind procedure? Learn from experts @ferasjaafari & @Ben_Dreyer_ dive into clinical data, view live cases & gather insights. Register here learn-emea.olympus-europa.com/learn/course/e…

Delighted to share this great news! Thanks to brilliant leadership @AmandaPritchard @SamRobertsNHS, support from patients & Herculean effort by colleagues across @NHSEngland, @NICEComms @MHRAgovuk @teamukts, Casgegy is now available on the NHS for people living with Thalassemia!

@ConfedExpo what an amazing discussion about Secure Data Environments and its benefits @LauraRooney24 @HealthInnovMcr

The NHS is rolling out a game-changing new laser beam therapy next month to help reduce seizures for patients with epilepsy. The treatment will offer new hope on the NHS to those for whom standard drugs are not effective in controlling their seizures. england.nhs.uk/2024/05/nhs-pa…

Our Children and Young People Network's clinical lead, Dr Easwari Kothandaraman, has written about #WorldAsthmaDay 2024 and the launch of the Digital Health Passport to support every child in Greater Manchester to manage their own condition linkedin.com/posts/greater-…

#HealthInequalities are avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health between different groups of people. Check out our latest nutshell to examine the key data on this complex and wide-ranging issue. 📊 kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

NEWS: Read about the collective findings of 14 projects that ran as part of the NHS Insights Prioritisation Programme which tested promising innovations that support post-pandemic ways of working in the NHS 🔗 ow.ly/sPZc50QWB00 #weareHInM

BLOG: Empowering Chronic Pain Management - A Patient Advocate’s Journey with Health Innovation Manchester Patient-advocate Debra Baxter shares her experience of developing a patient information leaflet for people living with chronic pain. 🔗 ow.ly/mCVQ50QYyQN #weareHInM

BLOG: Verity Morton (Senior Programme Development Lead, HInM) discusses her experience in leading HInM Medicines Programmes over the past year as her team supported the reduction of problematic polypharmacy and long-term opioid use for chronic pain 🔗 ow.ly/gwMn50R1e16

The resources were developed using feedback from children, young people & families with asthma living on #Oldham - as part of a 6-month pilot which was launched at the Royal Oldham Hospital (@NCAlliance_NHS). 🔗 gmintegratedcare.org.uk/childhood-asth…

The resources can help to provide you with the information you need to improve yours or your child’s asthma & include: - leaflets - animations - a full video case study about this work Resources are available in English, Urdu, Punjabi & Bangla & are available to download. 👇

Over the last 12-months, we have collaborated with communities in #Oldham to co-produce a series of education resources to help inform children, parents & care-givers about #asthma triggers, risks & how to manage their condition. Read more in this thread 👇

The challenges of becoming a less hierarchical organisation. Restructuring to reduce layers offers the promise of increased collaboration, agility, value & shifting decision making power to more people. However, research suggests that "how" (it's done) is more important than "what" (the design is): 1) Don't underestimate "zombie structures": it’s not enough to build anew; you must also actively dismantle & guard against the resurrection of the old 2) Expect an uneven pace of change: different teams have unique histories, cultures & operational nuances 3) Leadership during restructuring needs to be a razors edge: too much control can stifle the initiative that the redesign aims to foster; too little control can leave teams directionless 4) Adapt external ideas to the internal culture: external consultancies can give helpful advice but the people in the organisation know what is likely to work best hbr.org/2024/03/the-ch…. Via @yanche. Graphic by @zuzuzka

Leadership roles are less about problems to be solved than about tensions/paradoxes/polarities to be managed. These are pairs of goals that may appear to be contradictory, but which are interdependent. An example would be the dual focus on delivering operationally in the short term AND transforming the system for the longer term. Both are needed to create positive results & achieve sustained high performance. A new report by @Deloitte sets out key polarities/paradoxes that senior leaders typically need to manage: www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/De…