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Allan Brooking Fellowship

Allan Brooking Fellowship

The Allan Brooking NHS Travel Fellowship

Are you interested in identifying and visiting examples of innovative or good practice in non-clinical healthcare management?

If so, and your employing organisation will give you the time off, we may be able to provide you with financial support up to £3,000 [to cover travel and accommodation costs either within the UK or abroad]

The Fellowship provides opportunities for the educational development and enlargement of the professional knowledge, outlook and contribution of those involved in the non-clinical management of the NHS, by means of travel and other educational activities and, at the same time, provides a benefit to the NHS through the dissemination of experience and ideas. Fellowships are open to NHS managers in any discipline.

[Note: Attendance at conferences, meetings or courses will not be supported]

You need to:

  • send a short CV for each member of staff involved in the visit, together with a one page proposal including detailed costings, explaining what you would like to examine, its benefit to the NHS, where you propose to visit and your rationale for choosing this particular destination.
  • provide written confirmation from your employer that they will support you by giving leave for the purpose of your visit.
  • undertake to write a report on your research for the Trustees, that can be shared with others in the NHS; this will be shared with the applicant's employer and placed on the Fellowship's website. [See Guidance below]
  • tell us how you heard of the Fellowship.

Applications can be made at any time of the year, but the closing date before the next meeting of Fellowship Trustees is 29 June 2009.

Please write to:

Ms Ros Clarke, Honorary Secretary
c/o Above & Beyond Charities
The Abbot's House
Blackfriars
BRISTOL   BS1 2NZ

Guidance for writing the Report

The report should be of value to both the Fellow's employer and to a wider audience who access the Fellowship's website.

While we do not want to be prescriptive about the format of the report, we would like each report to contain the following three sections within whichever format the Fellow chooses to adopt:

  • At least three learning objectives detailing what the Fellow plans to learn from the Fellowship. Each objective can be a couple of sentences long and be specific about the learning the Fellow will gain;
  • For each objective, a short paragraph setting out a summary conclusion of what the Fellow found while on the Fellowship;
  • A summary of the key lessons for both the Fellow's employer and the wider NHS.

It will be equally important to explain and document learning that derives from unfulfilled, initial expectations.

Recent Reports funded by the Allan Brooking Fellowship

Visit to Duquesne University, Pittsburgh to look at how the current and future NHS workforce can become more flexible in the way in which patient care is delivered and reformed in December 2006
[Chrissy Aspinall]
60KB PDF format

A visit to the USA to research cost containment principles and practice for healthcare managers in July 2006
[Dr.P.Badrinath]
1.6MB PDF format

A visit to Denmark in September 2005 to attend Wound Care Clinics
[Hilary Field & Alison Tyrer]
24KB PDF format

A visit to the healthcare services in Queensland, Australia in November 2005 to study new roles and working practices
[Jane Barnacle]
28KB PDF format

A visit to various units that specialise in urology emergency admissions in November 2005
[Clair Riddell]
56KB PDF format

A visit to Australia in December 2005 to Professor Snowden into the care of older people and their mental health problems
[Suzanne Wightman & Michaela O'Neill]
56KB PDF format

A visit to Australia in April 2006 to visit the only identified, comprehensive Young Adult Mental Health Service in the World
[Lesley Hewson & Shahid Islam]
2.3MB PDF format

A visit to Arizona in May 2006 to learn about the Arizona Healthcare Cost Containment System
[Anne Sherman-Jones]
280KB PDF format

Visit to RAND Centre for Adolescent Health Promotion in Los Angeles in March 2007
[ Susan Elden]
68KB PDF format

A visit to New York to examine best practice in fundraising in April 2007
[Karen Willis]
408KB PDF format

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