Did you enjoy the fun and excitement on 19th October when thousands of people from over 150 NHS organisations along with many others across health and social care made pledges to improve services?
Pledges that turned into real actions, pledges that turned into national campaigns. Pledges that made a huge difference!This year Fab Change Day is changing. A natural evolution into something rather special, #FabChangeWeek from Monday 13th to Friday 17th November 2017. A real opportunity to showcase long lasting change coming from the collective commitment of frontline staff in health and social care settings.
We know we can’t do it alone. We need people like you!
There are so many ways you can take part irrelevant of where you are within your organisation. Don’t ever think you can’t make a change happen… the power for change and transformation lies within each and every one of us.
My name is Jane and I have no formal positional power where I work. I am in fact a third year Student Midwife from Northumbria University and based at City Hospitals Sunderland. Yet I am also the National Coordinator of the Academy of Fabulous Stuff’s Fab Ambassadors Team, a role I am passionate about. My journey with our team began a year ago and led to me (very surprisingly) receiving a #FabChangeDay national award at London’s O2 last year as Change Champion for my leadership, enthusiasm, passion, grit, determination and sheer perseverance that change can and will happen within our NHS and beyond. Movements such as this allow us all to demonstrate the significant difference we can make by simple acts and through coordinated efforts to drive long term and sustainable improvements forward.
Alongside the original Change Day Hubbies, whose grass-roots movement lay the crucial foundations from which FabChangeWeek is built are a team of Fab Ambassadors, individuals on the ground, at the frontline, both clinical and managerial, spread far and wide across the NHS who all share the same passion and realisation that together we can ‘be’ the difference.
Together we are planning this year’s national campaign and invite you to join us too. You can connect with us via Twitter, drop us an email or even join our FabAmbassadors Team.We use something called positive deviance as an alternative to traditional quality improvement as we know that there’s so much to learn from others by sharing exceptionally good practice and performance.
For inspiration, take a look at our ‘Doathon’ reports from last year via http://fabnhsstuff.net/2017/04/05/doathon-report/ … improving outcomes in key areas such as Sepsis, Dementia, Leadership, Patient Experience and Home First. There’s Quick-Win Do’s which are easy to spread and achieve which show that small things can have a big impact and Longer Do’s which may take a little more time but will be worth the effort.
And look at the energy that can be created from getting people talking… This @WeNurses tweet chat for our last #FabChangeDay (http://wecommunities.org/tweet-chats/chat-details/2844) had a twitter reach of over 12.5 million people and the engagement and sense of shared purpose is captured beautifully here in this new We Communities engagement wheel! Building relationships, listening, learning and sharing. We all need to keep having these conversations that matter... What are we doing well? Let’s share it and celebrate. What would we like to do differently? What comes next?
So, let us all celebrate what is done well and look to the future. Get thinking, get talking, get pledging and in the coming months let’s move onto the ‘doing’ with more ideas into action. It’s not about spread but about diffusion and amplification. It’s the fab-fast ripple effect.
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do. So we invite you to join us on our #FabChangeWeek journey, it will be quite the ride…
Jane
@JaneDouthwaite
[email protected]
Academy of Fabulous Stuff
@FabNHSSuff
Terri
@gbtpo
Roy
@RoyLilley