Original Thinking Podcast

On this podcast, Professor Naomi Chambers discuses her observations of NHS leadership behaviours during COVID-19.

Naomi’s wide range of teaching, advisory and research interests include healthcare leadership, organisation culture, diversity and inclusion, board governance, clinicians in management, health care commissioning, health policy and management in Europe, primary care, patient and public involvement, emergency planning, e-health and clinical costing. Her publications and media profile reflect this breadth of interests.

Naomi is currently co-director of Leadership & Management in the Higher Specialist Healthcare Scientist Training (HSST) Programme. Previous teaching roles have included programme director for the Nye Bevan executive programme for aspiring NHS board directors, university lead for NHS Leadership Academy programmes, and Director of Executive Education. Outward facing roles have included President of the European Health Management Association and vice chair of NHS North Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Group.

Two recent research projects have involved leading a team investigating changes in board level leadership in hospitals in England following the publication of the Francis Report into the failings at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Hospital Foundation Trust (completed 2018) and the evaluation of the content, applications and impacts of the NHS well-led framework on behalf of CQC and NHSI (completed 2020). Current projects include research for a book on organising care round patients to be published by Manchester University Press, a study on long serving NHS CEOs on what makes them tick and what keeps them going, and women’s experiences of urogynaecology services.

Drawing from her research, teaching and advisory experience, Naomi has an ongoing working relationship with a number of NHS boards and senior leadership teams supporting them to develop to meet the challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s health and care systems. She is also in close collaborative contact with colleagues working in national regulatory and oversight bodies, and with independent policy organisations such as the Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation.

Forthcoming and recent publications:

Chambers N & Taylor J (2021:forthcoming) Organising Care Round Patients Manchester University Press

Sheaff R, Morando V, Chambers N, Exworthy M, Mahon A, Byng R, Mannion R ( 2020) Managerial workarounds in three European DRG systems Journal of Health Organization and Management https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-10-2019-0295

Snelling I, Benson L, Chambers N (2019) How trainee hospital doctors lead work-based projects Leadership in Health Services 33 (1) 85-100 DOI: 10.1108/LHS-12-2018-0064

Chambers N, Smith J, Proudlove N, Thorlby R, Kendrick H, Mannion R (2019) Roles and behaviours of diligent and dynamic healthcare boards Health Services Management Research . https://doi.org/10.1177/0951484819887507.

Chambers N and Exworthy M (2019) How to survive as an NHS chief executive Health Service Journal 17 June https://www.hsj.co.uk/leadership/how-to-survive-as-an-nhs-chief-executive/7025324.article#commentsJump

Smith J and Chambers N (2019) Mid Staffordshire: A case study of failed governance and leadership? Political Quarterly 14 June 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12698

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

In this podcast we discuss how COVID-19 is impacting productivity today, and how government, business and workforce needs to adapt in order to drive productivity during the recovery.

Panellists

• Bart Van Ark, Honorary Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School and Executive Vice President and Global Chief Economist of The Conference Board (moderator).
• Tera Allas, Director of Research and Economics, McKinsey’s United Kingdom and Ireland Office.
• Alan Harding, Chief Economic Adviser at Greater Manchester Combined Authority; Visiting Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School.
• Vicky Pryce, Chief economic adviser and board member, Cebr.
• Anthony Venables, BP Professor of Economics; Director, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OXCARRE).

In this Original Thinking Podcast episode we will hear how staff from across The University of Manchester, led by Alliance MBS, are working with organisations around the UK and globally to develop successful plans for ensuring their recovery from COVID-19.

The team produces the ‘Manchester briefing on COVID-19’ each week which brings together international lessons and examples to prompt thinking on response to, and recovery from, COVID-19. Recipients are complementary about it: “really palatable and useful” (UK Local Authority senior manager), “There is a lot of great content” (Asia-Pacific, Managing director) and it is circulated to 250 individuals and, through an international partnership with the Global Resilient Cities Network (GRCN) a further 4,000 cities across the world.

Hear from members of the team Professors Ruth Boaden and Duncan Shaw, & Dr Jennifer Bealt, as they discuss their thoughts on recovery from COVID-19 and the development and impact of the Manchester Briefing.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

In this Original Thinking Podcast we will hold a discussion about the impact of Covid-19 on the global supply chain.

Hear from Stuart-Michael Whiting, senior Vice President Logistics & Planning, Global Supply Chain at Schneider Electrics alongside Alliance Manchester Business School's Mario Kafuros, Professor of International Business and Innovation, Fahian Huq, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management and Chris M. Smith, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Operations and Critical Systems.

Hosted by Timothy M. Devinney, Chair and Professor of International Business, Alliance Manchester Business School.

In this Original Thinking Podcast episode we will be joined by Professor Jill Rubery, Director of the Work and Equalities Institute at Alliance Manchester Business School, to debate just how viable is the government's job retention scheme is in the long-run and other questions around this. Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

The need to summon up both our individual resilience, and collective resilience as a society, has arguably never been greater than in the wake of the huge health, social and economic challenges posed by COVID-19.

Joseph Lampel, the Eddie Davies Professor of Enterprise and Innovation Management at Alliance Manchester Business School, has written extensively over many years on the subject of resilience and in this latest podcast in our Original Thinkers series he will be sharing his views on the subject and how individuals and organisations should be responding to this crisis.

Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

What are the top tips on working from home and how do you successfully manage remote teams? In this podcast Cary Cooper and Kelly Metcalf will discuss how leading organisations are tackling this challenge and give practical tips on how to best support your employees’ well-being while they are working from home. Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.

Will Covid-19 be a game-changer for climate change? In this podcast Jonatan Pinkse will explore whether individuals will rethink their behaviours and their approach to climate change. Hosted by Jim Pendrill, AMBS’ Research Communications Lead.