NHS

Thinkfreer has worked widely across the NHS over the past ten years. We have worked with clinical leaders and non-medical managers in a range of development programmes for clients including NHS North East, NHS North of Tyne & Wear, NHS South of Tyne and Wear, NHS Connecting for Health and many primary and acute trusts across the UK. Our key specialisms are:

• Leadership Skills Development - for GPs, Consultants & Dentists - behavioural skills training for doctors and dentists focusing on leadership, peer appraisal, feedback skills and educational supervision.

• Away Day and Strategy Workshop Facilitation - for clinical teams, GP partnerships and senior health management teams including Non-Executive Director development. We have helped leaders to address issues arising from difficult working relationships, clinicians in difficulty and tackling performance issues.

• Action Learning Sets – for assistant directors of nursing in primary and secondary care networks.

• Leadership Development Programmes - for medical and non-medical managers in trust settings focused on management of change and transformation.

• Focus Group Facilitation – leading focus groups with key stakeholder groups including patients, clinicians and staff groups.

• Coaching for Clinicians – individual coaching for doctors and dentists as part of their clinical leadership development.

• Business Mentoring – individual and team mentoring in business planning and business management in dental businesses and GP practices.

• Leading Social Enterprises – psychometric assessment of social entrepreneurs and leadership coaching focussed on successful consortia working.

Working with Thinkfreer has enabled many clinicians to take time out to address the management and leadership challenges that come with leading large and complex health service organisations. We have provided practical tools and techniques to tackle the tricky people, interpersonal and performance issues that can interfere with delivering excellent, cost-effective service.

"Really impressed with the management of the day…good to know this level of professionalism is available….Well done!" NHS Non-Executive Director and Board Member.

"I have worked with Alison over the past year and have always found her to be very focused, approachable, professional and dedicated to the work commissioned to carry out. Alison approaches the tasks in hand with both a friendly and positive manner which has enabled staff to clarify issues on a personal and team level. Alison and her support team demonstrated the ability to assist larger teams in working through some challenging issues and I therefore have no hesitation in recommending Alison and "Thinkfreer" as a future resource." Senior NHS Business Manager