Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #194
My weekly posts
Hear from Rady Sa’d about Enterprise Evolution for public services at the Public Service Transformation Academy webinar
Plans and KPIs often fail not from lack of care but because they were built for a simpler world. I’m looking forward to the PSTA webinar on 8 October with Randy Sa’d, exploring Enterprise Evolution and how public services can move from control to systemic management. We’ll look at practical ways to replace overloaded plans and metrics with living feedback loops, coherence, and collaboration. What one measure, meeting, or rule would you remove to make space for real learning? My post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_innovation-technology-management-activity-7378688810080997376-1xsL And to register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HQbs1SmBSXW4ptKarZQglg
Courses and events
Level 7 Systems Thinking Practitioner Apprenticeship
The new apprenticeship Leading and Commissioning for Outcomes in Complexity — Convening Systems Change can supercharge your career and transform your organisation. Fully funded Level 7 programme this year only! Real-world impact through applied systems thinking. For commissioners, system leaders, and systems change-makers. For further information, see https://www.publicservicetransformation.org/level-7-apprenticeship-course-leading-and-commissioning-for-outcomes-in-complexity-convening-systems-change-free-webinar-on-20-august-2025-1230pm-uk-time/
Commissioning Compass: systems assessment for change
Our newly launched tool, the Commissioning Compass, helps you to assess your commissioning system and form an action plan for improvement. It’s available for free via our Teachable site — try it now! link.redquadrant.com/commissioningcompass
This September — Outcomes-based commissioning: a ten-step introduction
We’ve announced new dates for our introduction to commissioning course at the PSTA, perfect for early career commissioners in police, justice, health, care, children’s services, or other commissioning disciplines. Register your interest now. https://link.redquadrant.com/10step0925
Next National Commissioning Academy
We’re building our cohort for the next national commissioning academy — our flagship commissioning programme from the PSTA. Register your interest now: https://link.redquadrant.com/nextacademy25
Things I shared on socials:
All or nothing? Access and variation in NHS continuing health care. Nuffield Trust.
NHS continuing health care provides funded health and social care support for people with very complex needs outside hospital. Yet our comprehensive new report shows this system is highly inconsistent, with wide regional variation in eligibility, spending and practice. Families can face a bruising process to access CHC at the most difficult time of their lives, navigating opaque rules and financial cliff-edges. CHC shines a light on the wider fractures between health and social care: a system under pressure, struggling to deliver fair, timely and sustainable support — and one that urgently needs reform. https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/all-or-nothing-access-and-variation-in-nhs-continuing-health-care
The State of Health and Care of Older People in England 2025. Age UK
Caring About Health. RSPH. https://www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/publications/caring-about-health/
RSPH has published a new report looking at the health outcomes of adults using social care services and how the system can have a more active role in health improvement. https://www.rsph.org.uk/our-work/publications/caring-about-health/
Thursday 16 October 3:30 pm — 5:00 pm. Changing the operating model. A Better Way.
Several Better Way members are currently in positions of influence with senior levels of government, and this is an opportunity to hear from them about what is going on behind the scenes and, importantly, for you to feed in your insights and advice to help influence future work https://www.betterway.network/forthcoming-events-feed/changing-the-operating-model16thoct-2025
Violence against women and girls (VAWG). A Better Way. Tuesday 21 October 2025, 15:00 16:30
A Better Way is holding a series of workshops with the Future Governance Forum to feed in your experience and ideas into its new Social Insights Panel, which will be making recommendations to the Government’s Test, Learn and Grow programme — a great chance to improve communication and collaboration between central government and civil society. Each event will focus on prevention from early to late stage. https://www.betterway.network/forthcoming-events-feed/violence-against-women-and-girls-vawg21stoctber2025
Integrated and preventative family support. A Better Way. Thursday 13 November 2025 12:00 13:30
A Better Way is holding a series of workshops with the Future Governance Forum to feed in your experience and ideas into its new Social Insights Panel, which will be making recommendations to the Government’s Test, Learn and Grow programme — a great chance to improve communication and collaboration between central government and civil society. Each event will focus on prevention from early to late stage. https://www.betterway.network/forthcoming-events-feed/integrated-and-preventative-family-support13thnov2025
