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Quotations about our work

This page lists some of the recent feedback we have had about our work. If you would like to add a comment or perhaps to suggest a top tip for sharing on this website, please send a message to: enquiries@accesspartnership.co.uk

Maxine Foster, 18 Weeks Workforce Development, Department of Health

“The Physiotherapy tool has had great feedback and The Access Partnership has a record of delivery”

Pip Robinson, National 18 Week Director.

“Input from The Access Partnership was invaluable in ensuring AHPs were aware and involved in the redesign of pathways to deliver maximum 18 week pathways for patients.”

Csaba Barody, Head of Podiatry Services, City and Hackney PCT

“The Access Partnership changed the way we think and as a result we now have an accessible, patient focussed service with low waits.”

Fiona Jackson, Head of Children and Families/Allied Health Professionals Barnet PCT

“The Access Partnership helped us to do what we thought was the impossible in that we reduced waiting times dramatically with no additional resources. Zac and his team changed the mind set of staff so that we were able to question historical ways of managing the service. Once service improvement started it became a snowballing effect as we all took ownership of the improvements and reduction in waiting times.”

Kath Smalley, Head of Speech and Language Therapy, Blackburn with Darwen PCT

“The Access Partnership’s role as ‘critical friend’ was invaluable in helping us to analyse the existing service and develop a focussed and systematic approach to the redesign. They empowered us to lead and drive the process ourselves, so that the end result belonged to us”’

Karen Middleton, Chief Health Professions Officer - Department of Health

“I’ve been impressed by how The Access Partnership works with teams to transform services for patients in a supportive yet challenging way, without the assumption that it will cost more money.”

Sarah Hadley, Head Music Therapist - Greenwich PCT

“The Access Partnership did do a great job with us and really shifted the team’s thinking to a more corporate level as a result of the process which has endured.”

Quotes from Recent Delegates

“Having attended a business case seminar in York with colleagues from my trust, I requested the template in order to plan and propose a business case for the Nutrition and dietetic input to oncology across Morecambe Bay to support both the Peer review and the Cancer Reform Strategy. I found the information in the seminar and the template invaluable in guiding my proposals, offering a clear and structured approach to planning and steering my case. The template does ‘exactly what it says on the tin’ and I have now submitted my first case!”
CLAIRE ALEXANDER, Nutrition and Dietetic Lead for Morecambe Bay, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay

“The seminar was well prepared and expertly delivered, encompassing a terrific amount of information and advice in one day. Very enlightening and sure to be useful”
DR F K JEPSON, Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine

“Having a template to structure the business case with all the discussion surrounding business cases was very useful”
MICHAEL HEATON, Haematology Services Manager

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A recent delegate at one of our York Business Case Seminars felt that “ All aspects of the workshop were easy to understand and totally relevant. It did exactly what it said on the flier, which is really re-freshing. This totally delivered!”

A recent London delegates wrote that the Business Cases Seminars was “ Enjoyable, well paced, informative and transferable”

Myra Lockhart, Voice Disorders Lead

When I look back at how we described the Adult Service at the beginning of the Service Review, it is barely recognisable as the same Service we now work within, such is the impact of Service Redesign. Then we were a fragmented service. Now we are working towards a whole service approach and have made great gains - but with challenges still to overcome. Would we go back to our previous way of working? Absolutely not!

Myra Lockhart - Voice Disorders Lead

“Leaders emerged and took responsibilities for aspects of work. Teamwork was established across previous geographical boundaries and Lanarkshire-wide planning became the norm. SLTs who had never previously thought of the management perspective in service delivery, now began to consider the implications and impact of proposed changes and the resources required to achieved the goals.”