Health Service Journal
Helen Bevan
Helen Bevan is chief of service transformation at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
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Trust me, I'm a leader: creating a climate for higher performance
29-Nov-2011
Managers will need to build a culture of mutual ownership and trust, rather than leading from the front, to affect the breadth of change to combat the cold economic front sweeping across the NHS, say John Drew and Helen Bevan. -
Helen Bevan: Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?
13 January 2011
NHS managers live in fear, which saps creativity and productivity. The antidote is hope -
Helen Bevan on the pitfalls of NHS cost reduction
1-Jun-2009
I have just returned from an international improvement forum, involving healthcare leaders from 67 countries. Everyone was talking about the economic challenges ahead. -
Helen Bevan on productive communities
26 March 2009
I want to tell you about the learning emerging from Productive Community Services, which the NHS Institute will launch later this year. -
Helen Bevan on NHS organisational culture
9-Feb-2009
To achieve the breakthroughs we seek in quality and efficiency, we need to focus NHS change efforts not just on new strategies and working practices but on new ways of thinking. -
Helen Bevan on NHS innovation
24-Nov-2008
Innovation is a core theme for the next phase of NHS development. Innovation is about doing things differently or doing different things to achieve large gains in performance. -
Helen Bevan on the six lessons of success
6-Nov-2008
This is my 11th year as a national improvement leader in the NHS. During this time, I have led or supported more than 70 major national improvement initiatives, in priority areas such as quality, emergency care, waiting times, cancer services, leadership and care closer to home. Yet I have never experienced a phenomenon like the Productive Ward. It has spread more quickly, made a difference to more staff and patients and created more energy for change than anything I had experienced ... -
Helen Bevan on large-scale change in the health service
20-Oct-2008
A sea change is happening in the way we approach large-scale change in the health service. -
Helen Bevan on NHS finance directors
8-Sep-2008
As an NHS improvement leader I work with many staff groups. One group that was barely on my radar a year ago, but with which I now work with regularly, is NHS finance leaders. -
Helen Bevan on paths to improvement
4-Aug-2008
The title of Lord Darzi's report - High Quality Care for All - proclaims the significant and welcome focus on quality improvement in the next phase of NHS reform. -
Helen Bevan on the NHS as a global leader
30-Jun-2008
I have just returned from Saskatchewan, Canada. I was invited to the province as a 'critical friend' of its healthcare transformation strategy. -
Helen Bevan on implementing Darzi
19-May-2008
What will it take to deliver the recommendations of Lord Darzi's next stage review? -
Helen Bevan on workload liberation
21-Apr-2008
Over the last decade, I have made many attempts (some documented in this column) to improve my personal work systems and processes but struggled to sustain them under the burden of a growing workload. -
Helen Bevan on the shape of things to come
25-Feb-2008
I'm proud to be a Coventry resident. Among Coventry's many attributes are a) it's the home of the NHS Institute and b) it has its own Ikea store. -
Helen Bevan on the productive theatre
21-Jan-2008
Hot on the heels of the successful Productive Ward, the NHS Institute has begun the Productive Operating Theatre programme in response to great demand. -
Helen Bevan on world class commissioning
19-Nov-2007
To make world class commissioning a reality, we must challenge our existing mindsets -
Helen Bevan on personal assistant power
15-Oct-2007
We have just completed the initial test phase of our NHS Productive Leadership Team programme. The participating local NHS leaders have shown it is possible to reclaim a day's worth of time a week by improving their e-mail and meetings management and adopting new personal work processes, writes Helen Bevan -
Helen Bevan on signature processes
3-Sep-2007
'Best practice is limited by its very nature. It comes from a common pool of knowledge, which means it can be copied by others, who may be able to catch up and overtake you' -
Helen Bevan on the best practice puzzle
23-Jul-2007
'When a new idea is adopted by around 15-20 per cent of the target, it is likely to take on a life of its own and spread naturally' -
Helen Bevan on freeing up your time
18-Jun-2007
'The leaders we studied typically spent 70 per cent of their working lives in meetings. Yet only 36 per cent of attendees made a significant contribution to the meetings' -
HELEN BEVAN ON FOUR RULES OF CHANGE
3-Nov-2005
Published: 03/11/2005 Volume 115 No. 5980 Page 29 -
FIVE STEPS TO TOMORROW
29-Sep-2005
Published: 29/09/2005, Volume II5, No. 5975 supplement Page 2 3 -
HELEN BEVAN ON REFORM FROM WITHIN
1-Sep-2005
Published: 01/09/2005, Volume II5, No. 5971 Page 19 -
HELEN BEVAN ON CONFRONTING MORTALITY RATES
23-Jun-2005
Across the US, a healthcare quality phenomenon is occurring. The senior leaders of more than 2,000 hospitals (a third of all US hospitals) have publicly signed up to a campaign organised by the Institute of Health Improvement. -
HELEN BEVAN ON DESIGN SCIENCE
24-Feb-2005
Published: 24/02/2005, Volume II5, No. 5944 Page 27 -
Helen Bevan on US public health
6-Jan-2005
We can learn a lot from other healthcare systems. Sometimes we find we have more in common than in variance - even with situations that appear to be the polar opposite of the NHS. -
HELEN BEVAN ON US PUBLIC HEALTH
6-Jan-2005
Published: 06/01/2005, Volume II5, No. 5937 Page 25 -
HELEN BEVAN ON HIGH-IMPACT CHANGES
25-Nov-2004
GOOD MANAGEMENT -
what works
9-Sep-2004
Helen Bevan On social movement thinking -
what works
15-Jul-2004
Helen Bevan On the road to Perfection -
what works
3-Jun-2004
Helen Bevan On modernising herself -
what works
8-Apr-2004
Helen Bevan On the power of theory -
what works
12-Feb-2004
Helen Bevan On positive thinking -
what works
25-Sep-2003
Diary of a Six Sigma trainee
