Is your trust considering applying to the first cohort of our new three-year lean programme? Find out more about lean systems and the application process following our information sessions last week.

We are currently looking for feedback on phase 1 of the programme we’ve co-developed with The King’s Fund and the Centre for Creative Leadership, which helps you diagnose your current culture.

Help celebrate the outstanding contribution made by allied health professionals (AHPs) to improving health, care and wellbeing for patients and communities at this year’s Chief Allied Health Professional Officer Awards.

We are looking for acute trusts to participate in a study into the impact of shadowing on the confidence and effectiveness of newly appointed ward leaders (band 7).

The aim of this study, a joint project with King’s College London, is to determine whether a peer shadowing programme is an effective model for developing ward leaders as nursing leaders in general medical/surgical acute wards.

We are introducing a new provider licence condition for NHS-controlled providers. Providers that meet the definition of an NHS-controlled provider need to ensure that from 1 April 2018 they are appropriately licensed.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 12.30 – 1.30pm

In the first of our series of Model Hospital masterclasses, analysts Mark Gorman and Ben Howitt will discuss the latest improvements and updates to the procurement metrics, the league table and procurement guidance.

It will focus on how the metrics have been calculated, what they mean and how they can help you to benchmark your procurement against other trusts on a more like-for-like basis.

As part of NHS70, the celebration of 70 years of the NHS, we are working with NHS England to encourage the development of youth volunteering.  To support the campaign there is a series of interactive webinars until May 2018.

The February sessions will cover youth volunteering case studies and March will cover recruiting and managing young volunteers.

Our demand and capacity programme is designed to develop organisations’ knowledge and skills in demand and capacity modelling, to help reduce waiting times for patients. The programme equips staff to train others and spread knowledge more widely at a local level.

Deadline for applications for trusts in the North East is 25 March 2018.

Tuesday 6 March 2018, 9.30am – 4pm

We’re holding an event for the South region in Reading on 6 March, focusing on tackling the issue of delayed discharges.

Recognising that this is a complex issue requiring system-based solutions, the event has been designed to look at the challenges both inside and outside of hospital which create delayed discharges.

The event is open to executives in providers and CCGs and local authority leaders.

Those in NHS providers who have been nominated by their local CCG to take part in the CCG 360° stakeholder survey have until 23 February 2018 to do so.

Heads of communications are asked to complete a government-led survey into emergency response communications across the public sector by 11 March. This will form part of the wider review and inform future emergency communications response, planning and training.

NHS Horizons is running a series of WebEx sessions as part of their School for Change Agents course, which is designed to provide staff with the skills to bring change within their organisation.

• Provider bulletin: 7 February 2018