Centre for Innovation in Health Management
Centre for Innovation in Health Management
About

The Centre for Innovation in Health Management is a network of doctors, public sector managers, organisational change consultants and academics, who are passionate about improving public services. They believe that CIHM is unique in that it is a ‘think and do tank’: not only do they undertake major pieces of academic research but they also work with public sector organisations to help create the conditions in which change occurs. They work with partners nationally and globally to generate new knowledge and apply it in the quest to deliver more efficient and effective public services.

They work across the public sector and their partners and clients include NHS London, NHS Yorkshire and Humber, the North West Leadership Academy and the Leadership Centre for Local Government. 

The Big Idea

They are based at the University of Leeds, with its reputation for world-class research, where they have complete freedom of thought and expression and the opportunity to explore radical new ideas. their ambition is to enable learning and new ideas to spread across organisations, to develop the leaders of the future and to provide evidence and policy advice to governments in the UK and across the world.

When organisations know what they want to achieve, when they encourage a multiplicity of views and when they share an understanding of how things are now they are in an ideal position to make successful and lasting change.

Their work focuses on complex systems. They bring people together to build connections and alter the ingrained patterns of behaviour across a whole system. They help people working in such systems understand that it is their individual and collective actions and attitudes that shape outcomes.

Network

Those of them working on behalf of CIHM are academics and organisational change consultants, who have a wealth of public sector experience, as well as a passion to generate new knowledge and bring about radical change.

The basis for their network relationship is reciprocity and learning. Members come to the network with capability in providing at least one of the following:

-Real-time organisational issues and a willingness as managers to try different ways of tackling them

-Research methods and questions that both develop the theory by expanding the evidence base, and offer a chance to make a productive intervention in the system

-Organisational development processes that enable the member to work in real time on complex issues

-Learning processes that enable the system to learn as a collective.

The network operates to:

-Learn about effective sustainable innovation in health management and develop a theory of innovation in health management

-Amplify the impact each member can have by working together – for example by influencing health policy

-Add value to all membership groups and organisations – for example academics, service providers or funders.

Members will:                                                                                

-Help determine the common purpose of the network

-Be accountable to the membership community

-Participate – this will take different forms dependent on member’s resources and capabilities/expertise

-Share information and commit to learning together. 

Membership is:

-Voluntary and negotiated

-Based on reciprocity – members are interdependent in the network

-Time-limited on the basis of the time needed to realise the CIHM’s goals. 

Expertise

They work in real time, on real issues, with real people. All their work is bespoke – they will work with you to design what you need. They will use the models, frameworks, ideas, and processes that fit your particular context and meet your requirements. CIHM works across the public sector with people trying to sort out complex issues in their organisations.

They help those people to:

-Understand how they organise themselves, and the impact the way they work has on clinical and performance outcomes

-Change the way they organise and work together to improve effectiveness

-Learn how to focus their efforts to be more productive.

They also undertake projects with the voluntary and community sector, supporting the development of effective community leadership.

Their network of managers, clinicians, academics, organisational change consultants, policy makers, and think-tanks bring a wealth of experience to every piece of work they do.

 

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Company Offices

  • United Kingdom (headquarters)
  • Leeds
  • Leeds University Business School, Maurice Keyworth Building, University of Leeds