Launch of the BAPO Leadership Programme

December 12, 2022By Rich ShorneyUncategorized No Comments

The inaugural BAPO Leadership Programme was launched on the 25th November 2022. Sixteen candidates were shortlisted to attend this year’s programme. BAPO have been successful in obtaining an educational grant from Health Educational England (HEE). The intention of this funding is to implement a professional development programme to support the next generation of leaders in … Read More

Proud to be supporting the BAPO Leadership programme

September 24, 2022By Rich ShorneyNews No Comments

Why? Prosthetists and orthotists will be most effective in delivering and improving healthcare if thereis sufficient leadership to maximise their contribution and impact their future.This programme is aimed at harnessing the potential of prosthetists and orthotists to transformhealthcare. Like other AHP professions, outcomes in prosthetics and orthotics (P&O) are oftenpoorly understood, resulting in missed opportunities … Read More

The Empty Chair

August 20, 2022By Rich ShorneyOpinion No Comments

As more and more people return to work, we are beginning to get some insight into the challenges people will now be facing. More obvious are the physical changes required by the return to work and reconfigured team dynamics driven by increased remote working. If you were to scratch the surface though, the less visible … Read More

Adaptability in Healthcare

July 11, 2022By Rich ShorneyOpinion No Comments

As we move forward in 2022 have you highlighted your Number One challenge for this year? Has that challenge changed from your thoughts back in January? If so why? Something new on the horizon perhaps or merely the changing landscape in which you work? Whether you work as a healthcare professional or in industry what … Read More

Royal College of Podiatry Leadership Programme

March 11, 2022By Rich ShorneyNews No Comments

The changing demands on health and care services are creating different development needs among staff in the NHS/ HEI’s/ Industry and Private Practice.  There is a true need to equip and encourage healthcare staff to deliver continuous improvement in local health and care systems and gain pride and joy from their work, something the RHS … Read More

Virtual Advisory Boards in 2021 – what we have learnt

January 8, 2022By Rich ShorneyNews, Opinion No Comments

Our valued support service of developing, hosting and facilitating Virtual Advisory Boards has gone on-line.  Following on from the success of supporting hundreds of national and international ad boards; focus groups; forums and discussion panels in the “real world” we extended our on-line facilitation offering in 2021. We were able to adapt to the challenge … Read More