We were absolutely thrilled to welcome person-centred care champion Tommy Whitelaw to Lincolnshire for a short tour of the county.
On this It's All About People commissioned visit to Lincolnshire, Tommy hosted the following events:
'You make a difference' workshops for team leaders and managers
Tommy hosted two half-day workshops on Monday 4 November at The Showroom, Lincoln.
These interactive workshops, entitled ‘You Make a Difference’, were aimed at middle managers and team leaders and were free to attend.
These workshops explored:
- What compassionate workplaces and systems should look like, and how we can get there.
- What are our strengths and what are we already doing well?
- What could we do differently in the future?
- What are the barriers to better working and how we can work together to overcome these?
- What might person-centred practice look like across different teams and settings?
- The culture change required to embed and implement person-centred care and drive improvements in the lives of people, carers and families.
These workshops were hosted for the first Joint Health and Care Leadership Forum.
Tommy's Talk Tour
Tommy also visited a range of hospital and community settings to speak to a huge range of health, care, and wellbeing professionals. His county tour started at Lincoln County Hospital on the evening of Monday 4th November and ran until the afternoon of Wednesday 6th November, with visits to Horncastle, Skegness, Boston, Spalding, and Grantham.
Tommy hosted more than one session at each location - see below for where and when he hosted sessions:
Monday 4th November
- Lincoln County Hospital, PGME Lecture Theatre: 5.30pm - 6.30pm
- Lincoln County Hospital, PGME Lecture Theatre: 6.35pm - 7.35pm
- Lincoln County Hospital, PGME Lecture Theatre: 8.00pm - 9.00pm
Tuesday 5th November
- Bert House, Horncastle: 9.30am - 10.30am
- Bert House, Horncastle: 11am - 12pm
- Skegness Community Hospital, Stockdale Suite : 1.15pm - 2.15pm
- Skegness Community Hospital, Stockdale Suite : 2.15pm - 3.15pm
- Boston Pilgrim Hospital, PGME Lecture Theatre: 5pm - 6pm
- Boston Pilgrim Hospital, PGME Lecture Theatre: 6.15pm - 7.15pm
- Boston Pilgrim Hospital, PGME Lecture Theatre: 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Wednesday 6th November
- Spalding Johnson Hospital: 10am - 11am
- Spalding Johnson Hospital: 11.15am - 12.15pm
- Grantham Jubilee Church Life Centre: 1.30pm - 2.30pm
- Grantham Jubilee Church Life Centre: 2.45pm - 3.45pm
ALL of the sessions were free to attend and open to everyone.
The Tommy experience
We encouraged health, care, and wellbeing professionals to attend Tommy's events to explore how they might promote person-centred care in their own and their team's work and practice.
Tommy's sessions explore:
- The transformative power of person-centred care approaches within organisations and services.
- What person-centred practice might look like across different teams and settings.
- The culture change required to implement this approach and drive improvements in the lives of people, carers and families.
Tommy's work is led by the values and principles of the ‘What matters to you’ and ‘Intelligent Kindness’ movements. These identify active listening, kindness, and person-centredness as key to providing inclusive support and care to all individuals, as well as creating healthy working environments.
In his sessions, Tommy shares learning drawn from his own experience as a carer to help health, care, and wellbeing professionals to reflect on how they can make their workplaces, services and systems truly person-centred by asking 'what works well?’ and ‘what can we do differently in the future?’.
