#Vibrant Health17 Summit: Building Sustainable Healthy Futures Together  20-21 July 2017 Canterbury

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Carolyn Jackson Director of the England Centre for Practice Leadership (ECPD) Canterbury University UK and  Jeremy Scrivens

On July 20th in the Augustine Hall at Canterbury University, something extraordinary is going to happen. Leaders of the NHS will be in the same room as leaders of UK health social movements such as the Global Village Midwives, Global Village Radicals and Global Village Mental Health. There will be others there; in fact people, institutions and individuals from across UK society who are coming together as a whole of society to imagine and design elements of the future of the NHS as a social movement.

The University of Canterbury with the Cathedral in the background – please join us for the #Vibrant Health17 Summit: Building Sustainable Healthy Futures Together  20-21 July 2017 Canterbury 

For me personally, the ECPD initiative is a welcome breakthrough. To see the NHS as institution and the NHS as society and social movement in the Summit Room – coming together to co-create new models of healthcare which put the individual back in to the centre of connected community in a digital age – this is the way to collaborate in health.

I am so encouraged to see this happen as this will be the first of many ‘whole of UK society’ health summits to come. I am particularly excited that there will be so many young people involved in the Summit as the future of health in the UK is with our youth are wired like no other generation to collaborate and innovate together through the internet of things.

So, if you care about the future of health in the UK, please support this Summit in any way you can.

I have a special plea to UK business – please support this Summit. Carrie and her team need you in the Summit – they need your sponsorship but also your presence in the Summit co-creating the future of #vibranthealth as also the future of a #vibranteconomy.  We need our business guys in the Summit Room. I know you are a business who cares for and is active in the future of UK health, I am sure Carrie would be delighted to talk with you.

Here’s Carrie

The majority of efforts to transform the National Health Service in the UK have been largely driven by increasingly scant public sector resources, poorly planned and fragmented policies with weak evidence base for change, and very little public consultation about what really matters to people in terms of population health and well-being.

If we want to activate progressive health care systems that support community and individual wellness for the future, we need to recognise that people and communities are resource-rich by harbouring their own solutions to improve and prevent poor health behaviours and outcomes.

At the England Centre for Practice Development we believe strongly in the need to change the lens through which society sees health and wellbeing, moving away from a medicalised model of illness towards a holistic community and personally activated view of health; one that brings out the best in people and empowers them to be the best they can be.

By engaging people differently in the pursuit of better health and wellbeing outcomes, we create new opportunities to promote health creation, reduce health inequalities, improve the lives of citizens and those who work in the health sector to create sustainable services that work for people when they need it.

Digital technology, business and social enterprise plays and important role in enabling this vision to become a reality. There are already good examples of this revolution occurring around the UK through the devolution agenda and a great opportunity for people to get together to learn from other’s experiences and apply their experiences and stories of impact to their own lives and professional practices.

The NHS ecosystem requires regenerating inside out and outside in from the collective wisdom of the community itself using public services, rather than the so-called ‘experts’ or professionals. Tacking the NHS challenge from the perspective of wholeness, i.e. bringing all the parts of the UK system together, will identify the adaptive challenges facing as a whole society – and we have to do this together, community, health professionals, business, academia, education.

We have been trying to fix health in the UK from the parts of things but it doesn’t and cannot work. We need to come together and to bring all our experience and strengths into play. The more we do this, the more we will switch from trying to do more with less with everyone fighting for their share of the health budget and resources to one where we tap into the wisdom, energy, strengths and ideas that come from everyone being in the Innovation Summit Room together.

By thinking of health as a community conversation and collaboration at scale for positive social good enabled by the experience of wholeness in the same room together and sustained as a social movement; we will shift from fire-fighting, scrambling and blame to one of hope, possibility and New Horizons.

The two day #VibrantHealth17 summit on July proposes to act as a catalyst for collaboration and ignition of change across the private, public and not for profit sectors.

Based on principles of active participation and empowerment, the Summit will provide create opportunities for participants to co-design sustainable solutions to some of the health and wellbeing challenges we face today by pooling people’s experiences, creativity, ideas and resources, defining key challenges and opportunities and connecting people to co-create a blue print for change in our local communities. Together we have the capacity to share stories and experiences, learn from each other and collectively commit to action for the collective greater good.

The Summit will focus on celebrating innovation from the Outside In (community innovation) and Inside Out (health care system).

The Summit provides the opportunity for participants to engage with design tasks around key issues affecting our communities bringing together discussions around – for example

·       How to support vulnerable groups who are falling outside mainstream services,

·       How to improve housing and social care structures and processes, and

·       How to capture the resources that local communities have on their doorsteps to improve opportunities for businesses to engage in innovations to support community health.

Last year, we saw the positively disruptive conversations on social media started by Professor Minesh Khasu and Jeremy Scrivens on their call for the engagement of our young people in the UK – GenG) to be actively involved in the co-design of the future NHS.

Using a Principles based approach, in the Summit we will be working with school pupils and university students to consider how we promote Generation G (GenG) to create a future workforce skilled with the technological movement to transform our approach to supporting health as a social movement.

Some of the key features of the summit:

• Learning from vibrant stories of wellbeing projects that work
• Live lab workshops to design solutions together
• Masterclasses
• Speakers corner
• Festival of ideas celebrating innovative projects and ideas
• Graphic Facilitation with live pledge and graffiti wall
• Evening drinks reception with live music
• #TwitterDisco raising funds for UK Sepsis Trust, Cavell Nurses Trust and British Lung Foundation

Summit Innovation Catalysts and Hosts include*:

• Cormac Russell – MD for Nurture Development, ABCD Institute @cormacrussell
• Julian Stodd and the SeaSalt Learning Team @julianstodd
• CarolLRead – Clinical Innovation Manager, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
• Claire Tomkinson – Wellbeing Development Lead, Manchester Community Central @what_claire_did
• Gill Phillips – WhoseShoes? With the #CovMindtheGap team @whoseshoes
• Liz Atkin – Visual Artist #CompulsiveCharcoal @lizatkin
• FocusGames @FocusGames
• Global Village Midwives @GlobalVillageMw
• Global Village Radicals @GlobalVRadicals
• Global Village Mental Health  @|GlobalVillageMH
• Tanya Humphreys – Macmillan Services Programme Manager, North West@tanya_humphreys
• International Fellows of the England Centre for Practice Development #IFECPD
• Jenny Clark – Skin to Skin Midwife Campaigner @JennytheM
• NHS Horizons team
• Roy Lilley – Health Commentator and Writer @Roylilley
• Professor Becky Malby – Health Systems Innovation, London South Bank University@beckymalby
• Dr Terri Porrett @FabNHSStuff
• Professor Minesh Kashu – Consultant Neonatologist & Professor of Perinatal Health, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Health as a social movement advocate @mkrettiwt
• Jeremy Scrivens – Appreciative Futurist @jeremyscrivens

What’s in it for businesses who attend the Summit?

• Be part of an organic living design lab for community health and well-being – contributing to sustainable social good
• Learn about bottom up experience based co-design in action in real time which can be applied to business culture, workforce and customer engagement,
• Undertake a collaborative design task to build a sustainable community initiative
• Learn how the strengths based Appreciative Inquiry approach to innovation can be applied to business growth in ways that helps get to the heart of what really matters to people
• Build new networks and relationships and become part of this exciting social movement of change for a vibrant UK economy
• Be one of the first UK businesses to be publicly engaged in the future of health as a whole of society initiative – be a leader in business for social good at scale
• Receive global coverage on social media from the accounts of our proactive Summit Leaders

Please contact Carolyn (Carrie) Jackson   @EcpdCarolyn ‏ re business participation and sponsorship options

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We wish #WHIS Ambassador Carolyn Jackson and her team all the best for the #VibrantHealth17 summit in July 2017. Carolyn attended our first summit (#WHISCumbria16) in Carlisle two years ago and where we launched our vision to support our health services while creating community value. As outlined above we have the opportunity to support our health services and in July we plan to showcase our work over the last two years so we can see the impact we can make by working collaborating with trust. Gareth Presch, CEO, Founder, World Health Innovation Summit #togetherweinspire