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The launch event, held at Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury in London had a real buzz about it as inspirational people from across the social care and health sector came together to launch and celebrate the three new TLAP-sponsored products:
- Whose Shoes?® - Making It Real
- Making It Real for Carers
- Making It Real for people living with dementia
The new electronic tool is now available to purchase.
Check out our video of the launch event here.
Winterbourne…Francis Report…Care crisis… Health and social care reforms
Let’s all work together for excellence with the person… in the centre
Are you keen to
- Engage people in delivering public services in more creative ways?
- Promote person-centred practice, independence and choice?
- Get people to 'think outside the box' and work across boundaries?
- Challenge attitudes and assumptions?
- Explore ways to improve quality of life AND save money?
- Continually improve your practice?
If the answer to any of these is 'yes', Whose Shoes?® will move you forward
Whose Shoes?® is an exciting approach, allowing you to 'walk in other people's shoes'. Through a very wide range of scenarios and topics, Whose Shoes?® tools help you explore many of the concerns, challenges and opportunities facing the different groups affected by the transformation of health and social care.
Managers and leaders, clinicians, people using health or social care services, carers, front-line staff, commissioners, care providers, the local community, students and many more all love the Whose Shoes?® approach. And all the more so, when different groups work together…!
A well established tool in printed format, we are proud to announce our new electronic tool:
Whose Shoes?® - Making it Real - launched 2 May 2013, in partnership with the sector-wide alliance, Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP). Click here to view the flyer.
Lively scenarios act as starting points for discussion, looking at issues from the perspectives of:
- People with support needs; and informal carers
- Front-line staff
- Managers and leaders, including commissioners
- Providers, including those offering community-based support
The health and care system requires radical reform to meet the requirements of the forthcoming Health and Social Care Act ……
Whose Shoes?® aims to:
- Raise awareness of the scale of this change and the need for everyone to work together
- Foster ‘a culture of openness and insight’ (Francis Report recommendation)
- Highlight key values, skills and knowledge of professionals, harnessing empathy and compassion
- Promote understanding of the perspectives and challenges of others, particularly people with care needs or who need support
- Generate 'crucial conversations': ‘Making It Real’ – for you and me!
- Share practical examples of good practice and innovative solutions, helping people to co-produce local action plans
- Bring the government’s transformation agenda alive and help people convert policy into person-centred reality
- Thought-provoking, inclusive and highly interactive
- Communicates key information in a fun and innovative way
- Encourages partnership working and co-production
- Allows people who use services and informal carers to participate as equals
- Highly flexible – select the topics relevant to you; every session is different!
- Nurtures creative, engaging facilitation and a lively exchange of tips and ideas
The images used on the website page backgrounds are based on graphic records
produced in real time during 'Whose Shoes®' events by New Possibilities Ltd.
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