GoodwinHannah was established in 2006 by Neil Goodwin and Christine Hannah.

We work with boards, executive teams and the emerging NHS clinical commissioning groups to help them identify the strategic, leadership and people challenges they are facing, and to translate them into meaningful, practical action plans for team, personal and organisational development.

We have considerable experience of undertaking confidential and sensitive inquiries into governnance, clinical services, and board and health system leadership, capability and behaviours.

Our approach is driven by extensive personal senior managerial experience in a range of large and complex organisations and is underpinned by the use of relevant academic research, including our own primary leadership research.


Current assignments
Our current assignments include work at the forefront of the current NHS reform, for example:

Hospital acquisitions
Recently, we facilitated the acquisition of Trafford General Hospital, advising the Trust Board and working with stakeholders and the potential acquiring Foundation Trusts during the acquisition process. 

Currently, we are advising on the acquisition of North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust.

New comissioning system
We are working with several PCT clusters on board and organisational development including the relationship with residual PCT boards and emergent clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). We are also working with CCGs to support their own organisational and board development, including establishing the emerging clinical senates.

Academic health science systems
We are continuing to support NHS and HE leaders in North West England to help them establish an academic health science partnership.

Clinical services reconfiguration
We have recently supported clinical leaders and chief executives of a major conurbation in agreeing the structure and governance of their major trauma system spanning several organisations.  

Leadership
Read our latest research on the contextual challenges facing chief executives here

Clinical engagement
We have worked with foundation trusts to improve clinical leadership and engagement. We identify and address the 'wicked' issues preventing meaningful clinical engagement vital to achieving the quality and productivity challenges facing NHS providers today.  

Transforming community services
We have worked with foundation trusts and community services providers to create the right conditions for succesful integration and redesign of services that meet the quality and productivity challenges. Our focus is on agreeing the leadership challenges required to create new organisations, cultures, systems, processes and the skills necessary to achieve transformational change.  

Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention
We have worked with primary care trusts, most latterly a consortium of 10 PCTs and local NHS providers, to achieve the potential of level 3 QIPP.

See full list of assignments

 
Our assignments include working on hospital acqusition and developing the new commissioning system