>>Susan Aitkenhead: A key principle of the Chief Nursing Officer for England shared governance
collective leadership programme is ensuring a strong professional voice and that everyone
has the opportunity to contribute and that their voice is heard no matter where they
work and what they do. Shared decision making is a key component of this and we are delighted
to be working with colleagues from Nottingham University NHS Trust to run a masterclass
today to help colleagues understand how shared decision making works in practice and enable
them to go back and work with their colleagues to start to develop this national collective
leadership strong professional voice model. >>Melanie Robertson: From what I’ve heard
this morning shared decision making is a really exciting opportunity for nurses that are in
clinical practice with patients every day to actually see what can make a difference
for patients, empowering them to actually make improvements and see changes that are
really going to matter to patients.
>>Mark Curnow: We piloted it, so I’ve seen
it from sort of the very beginning and definitely it’s produced teams within the clinical
areas that are much more aware of what’s going on, they’re much more involved in
decisions and actually feel more of a belonging really, I think for the individual areas it
actually allows to bring out diversity of ideas and thoughts.
>>Aquiline Chivinge: Being part of a shared governance council has really given staff
confidence, it has given us a voice, and it has also given us opportunities for training,
we have been presenting our work and sharing good practices with other networks and also
with other colleagues in different hospitals and we are involved in numerous programmes
within the hospital trying to bring the equality and the diversity agenda on to the forefront
to get everybody working together and speaking and changing culture as well.
>>Janet Thompson: Really enjoyed being part of this masterclass, where we’ve had the
opportunity to learn and develop our thinking on shared governance, understanding the four
principals of what shared governance is about with regards to accountability, ownership,
equity and partnership and really how we’re going to take this back in our organisation
and develop the thinking.
>>Professor Joanne Cooper: Shared Governance
is the most effective way of improving outcomes for patients by releasing the skills, the
talent and the abilities of people that are making the decisions around care, so it’s
really an opportunity to work in partnership as an organisation with a culture that values
the voice of everyone including patients, the staff and the whole team to think about
what’s important, to listen to each other, to act on the things that will make the most
difference and then to really see what the difference in outcomes are.
>>Mandie Sunderland: For me, shared decision making is probably the most effective thing
I’ve seen in my whole career for changing the culture and empowering clinical staff.
We now have band 5 nurses who are part of our strategic decision making body around
professional issues going forward, we have nurses who have been able to get involved
in projects and learn about things that they would never have been able to before and what
we have seen is a real increase in job satisfaction, development of leadership skills and also
now, those nurses going on to pass their experiences on to others to enable us to take shared decision
making even further.