Biography - In April 2005 Yve was appointed Chair Designate for the National Consumer Council for Water (Defra). Prior to this appointment she was Chair of the Health Development Agency (DoH 2000-2005) following her Chairmanship at the Health Education Authority since 1997. Yve was also until recently Vice-Chair of the South Warwickshire Primary Care Trust. Since 2003 Yve has been Programme Director of University of Warwick Health Service Partnership at the Institute of Governance and Public Management at the Warwick Business School.
Yve is an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and a Senior Associate Fellow of the Warwick Institute of Public Governance, also a fellow of the RSA. She was awarded the DBE in HM Birthday Honours List June 2003 for services to Public Health.
Yve was a member of the Modernisation Action Team on Health Inequalities set up by the Secretary of State for Health to feed into the NHS Plan 2000. She went on to become a member of the National Task Force on Inequalities and Public Health and also lead the consultation group on Involving Communities for the soon to be published White Paper on Public Health. In 2004 Yve was appointed to the Curry Commission on food and farming to provide expertise on public health issues. She has also advised the Local Authority Beacon Councils panel on healthy communities issues.
Yve’s professional background was in local government. Between 1992 and 1999 she was Deputy Chief Executive and City Secretary of Nottingham City Council, where among other things she led the work to create a shared vision and effective partnership between health agencies and the local authority to tackle health inequalities in Nottingham.
Abstract - Making Change and improvement happen in the NHS
The National Health Service with a £110 billion turnover and 1.3 million staff, is engaged in a transformational programme of change to meet the demands and expectations of patients and service users.
The programme has been described as the largest concerted systematic improvement programme ever undertaken anywhere, in any industry.
This presentation will highlight some of the learning from this approach and how change and improvement happens in the NHS and some of the challenges for the new NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement which has been established to "turbo-charge" improvement within the NHS.
Updated: 27 September 2005