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The DeNPRU Exeter team hosted our annual team meeting on 12th and 13th February. We travelled from across England and Northern Ireland (with Karen arriving by aeroplane!) to come together in London. It was great to have colleagues from the Department of Health and Social Care with us, and our wonderful FRIEND group members Shafaq and Keith.
On Thursday, we began by looking forward to the year ahead, identifying areas that we would like to stop, start and continue. It was a great opportunity to connect in person with colleagues we usually only see on screen, and to have more in-depth, organic conversations. Topics included collaboration, embedding engagement with stakeholders and patient and public involvement, and strengthening our ability to deliver future projects and work programmes.
We were then delighted to welcome Niran Nirmalananthan, National Clinical Director of Neurology, NHS England and Sam Jenkins, Policy Lead for Long Term Conditions. This thought-provoking, two-way discussion gave us the opportunity to ask questions about neurology transformation and to explore future ways of working together. It was wonderful to have Niran and Sam in the room with us, and we were incredibly grateful that they took the time to join us.
On Friday, we were delighted to welcome Jeremy Isaacs, National Clinical Director for Dementia, NHS England, along with Jack Root, Senior Policy Advisor for Dementia, for an engaging in-person session. Jeremy shared valuable insights into current national priorities for dementia and frailty including tertiary prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care. He spoke candidly about the challenges facing dementia services, but also about the opportunities to drive meaningful change through collaboration across health and care systems.
For our final session, we chatted all things impact planning. With several projects nearing completion and new programmes of work on the horizon, it is essential that we can monitor and track the impact of our work. Using a knowledge mobilisation and impact planning tool, we divided into groups to map impact pathways for a selection of our projects. These dynamic discussions will now inform the development of more formal impact plans and will be embedded in future project initiation processes.
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By Emily Adams and Emma Walter, Stakeholder Engagement and Impact Manager(s)
