Delivering a clinical stewardship training programme for multi-ICS networks in the midlands

Population Health Management is an approach that aims to improve physical and mental health outcomes, promote wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across an entire population. Since the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan in January 2019 Population Health Management has been at the forefront of policy.

Key to developing this whole system approach is the clinical leadership necessary to drive change. Clinical Stewardship is one form of Population Health Management which challenges clinicians to become stewards of the collective resource available to them, their part of the NHS or the Health and Care system in its broadest sense.

Many clinical networks exist across the NHS Midlands region. These networks range from long standing expert advisory groups with no operational mandate, through Operational Delivery Networks with a clear performance brief to Essential Service Networks which were set up to provide resilience of services across the region during the COVID-19 pandemic. Central to all of them are their clinical leaders. This session will discuss the establishment of a clinical stewardship training programme for these clinicians who are leading our networks. The training programmes aims and objectives, design, outcomes and future direction will be presented. It will then be followed by a panel discussion with questions from the audience on how clinical leadership programmes, focusing on clinical stewardship, for multi-ICS clinical networks can be developed.