Strengthening health systems through nursing examines the nursing profession’s contribution to health systems across Europe. We edited this multi-chapter volume into house style, liaising with authors across Europe and at King's College London to resolve queries, and ensure clarity and consistency. We also edited and created several charts and data visualisation for the report. The report, published by the European Health Observatory, highlights nursing’s impact on care access, quality and value, and suggests policies to sustain and strengthen the nursing profession.
Mentoring and coaching
Mentoring – free places available
Our mentoring programme is designed to support you to maximise your potential by developing skills and improving performance. Mentoring offers a secure space for deepening your professional knowledge and exploring development opportunities. The programme starts with an initial 'chemistry call' to establish suitability, set goals and agree an accountability framework. Subsequent sessions are tailored to your objectives, offering impartial guidance and a chance to reflect on your developing practice.
As a Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) with nearly 30 years' experience in communications project management, Matthew is well placed to help you take the next step in your career.
The investment is tailored to your budget, but we want to include as many people as possible. Through the Association for Project Management and the Royal Society of Arts, Matthew is currently offering a limited number of free mentoring places (please note, oorganisational membership is required). Find out more on the mentoring pages of the APM and RSA sites.
Coaching
Coaching offers a safe space to explore issues and develop your career pathway. It differs from mentoring in that the emphasis is on using and developing your existing personal and professional resources, rather than acquiring industry-specific knowledge. It is especially useful for when you feel 'stuck' in a work situation or professional relationship.
As a qualified NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) Master Practitioner, Matthew can support you in developing your professional capabilities and improving your work-life balance. To make the programme as inclusive as possible the investment is flexible, to suit your budget.
CNMAR/CMORE reports
Promoting research across the health workforce
Over a five-year period the Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research (CNMAR) asked us to produce regular annual reports to celebrate research by these staff, and their contribution to improved clinical practice.
In parallel, the Centre for Medicines Optimisation Research and Education (CMORE) is committed to improving use of medicines by enabling inquiry-based practice, research and shared learning across patients' health journeys. We produced a series of annual reports to highlight the research fellowships, clinical placements, research and quality improvement opportunities provided by the Centre.
National Brain Appeal website
The National Brain Appeal raises funds to advance treatment and research into the care and treatment of neurological conditions. We worked with clinicians and carers to produce case studies to enhance the Appeal’s website and to amplify the link between funding, research and positive health outcomes.
Royal Free London website
The Royal Free London is a major London NHS foundation trust and teaching hospital. We undertook a series of stakeholder interviews as part of the discovery phase, to inform the project requirements and business case. We then worked with the in-house team to deliver the project including detailed planning, risk management and change control. The result was a new modernised website, to support better care for the trust’s local community and beyond.
www.royalfree.nhs.uk
Pathway to Excellence campaign
The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) is a leading integrated provider of NHS services. We designed a campaign identity for the trust’s nursing excellence programme, ensuring it stood out and encouraging staff engagement. The campaign helped pave the way for (UHL) to be the only UK trust to gain Pathway to Excellence® accreditation at two of its hospitals.
Staff Research Champions
The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) is a leading integrated provider of NHS services. To promote research input from nurses and other clinical staff, we produced designs and copy for the Research Links programme, to support a successful internal communications campaign identifying the key ward staff with a research focus.
Inspire journal
The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) is a leading integrated provider of NHS services. UHL believed that many of its nurses and other clinical staff were engaged in leading-edge healthcare practice that had wide applicability. However, these initiatives were often not formally tested or disseminated. To help bridge the gap, UHL proposed launching an in-house staff research journal, to be distributed in print and digitally.
We worked with colleagues at UHL to design the journal and agree an editorial production process, and supported UHL with production of the first year’s issues. The Inspire journal acted as a conduit for the spread of existing good practice, and to promote further research
Championing nursing and midwifery research
Working within NHS national and local brand guidelines, we designed and edited a regular journal to promote clinical research by staff.
Read MoreNursing excellence campaign
We were asked to produce campaign materials to encourage nominations for the DAISY nursing excellence awards at an NHS trust. These included forms and ballot boxes, badges and certificates. The campaign encouraged patients, their friends and families to show appreciation and gratitude for the care patients received, supporting increased engagement and satisfaction among patients and staff.
Promoting Exemplar Wards
To support their exemplar wards excellence programme, an award-winning London teaching hospital trust asked us to create materials including a staff handbook, yearbook and a tube map-styled poster. The materials celebrated outstanding performance across the trust and supported teams’ understanding of the steps required to maintain and achieve excellence.
Brand identity – staff development
We designed a brand identity for a London-based NHS trust’s professional development programme.
Read MoreWelcome postcards
'Going home' checklist
Branding enhancement for legal think tank
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Read MoreWebsite for pioneering research
Brightlight undertakes pioneering research with teenagers and young adults to improve their experience and outcome after a cancer diagnosis. Working with web agency Wholegrain, we redesigned their website using WordPress, refreshing the content and upgrading the site to a secure, sustainable platform where updates could be easily made.
Brightlight approached us to refresh their existing logo to incorporate the year and roll this out across the relevant parts of their website.
Branding for European research body
The European Nursing Research Foundation (ENRF) works to enhance nursing research to benefit Europe's citizens and to promote evidence-based decision-making. We updated the foundation's logo and publication designs, and created new templates and brand guidelines. The new designs ensured the ENRF's messages to policy makers and nurse leaders stood out, while the brand guidelines and refreshed templates ensured clarity and consistency.
Nursing and midwifery infographics
Nursing, midwifery and allied health professions infographics
Read MoreNHS research branding
We created a new logo for the Centre for Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Research (CNMAR)
Read MoreAssessment report for women and children's hospital
We designed and edited an baseline assessment report for a London NHS teaching hospital trust and a hospital for women and children in the United Arab Emirates, supporting a strategic partnership between the two organisations.
