Paired Learning - Birmingham Children's Hospital
Historically in the NHS, hospital doctors and managers have struggled to find ways to work effectively together due to a lack of understanding of each other’s roles. Often, junior doctors have never even met a manager prior to taking on a consultant post. We wanted to address these issues by bringing doctors and managers together to change perceptions through earlier engagement and joint leadership training.
Birmingham Childrens' Hospital pioneered a Paired Learning scheme as their 2014 NHS Change Day pledge, matching junior doctors with managers to gain an insight into each other’s roles and perspectives, through dialogue and shadowing.