HOPE Exchange Programme 2012

The HOPE Exchange Programme offers a unique opportunity for healthcare professionals across Europe.

Aimed at

The HOPE Exchange Programme is aimed at managers and clinicians who also have a managerial role.  Participants will see how another healthcare system is structured, consider the similarities and differences when compared with the NHS and identify good practice, benefiting the individual and their organisation alike.

Dates of programme

The 2012 programme will run from the 14th May to the 14th June 2012, at the end of which all participants across Europe will come together in Berlin, Germany to share their learning and present best practice. In addition to developing an understanding of the programme theme in another healthcare system, participants have an opportunity to consider specific interests agreed with their host organisation enabling them to take valuable aspects of learning back into their work environment. Networks also form between both individuals and organisations and these can lead to future visits and continued shared learning for many years to come. 

The theme for 2012 is “Ageing Health Workforce - Aging Patients: Multiple challenges for hospitals and healthcare in Europe." Two participants from different professional backgrounds and countries are usually placed together so that as well as discussing your own services you can also benefit by hearing first hand about different systems and thinking from the EU participants. The host may be drawn from acute, mental health or primary care, dependant on the structure of the health system in the country concerned. Placements in specialist hospitals may also be possible. Participants will usually be placed with a health care professional from another country providing a third national perspective to their programme.

Interested?
Applications for the 2012 Programme are now open.  Please email Leadership or check the HOPE website for information. 

You can find Guidance notes for interested parties and a list of accepted languages  here, and you can find further information on the Programme in our downloadable newsletter  here. 

Submissions of interest should be sent by the 31st August, 2011 with application forms due by the 30th September, 2011.  Please note that this is earlier than the EU deadline given on the forms from the HOPE website; forms with the UK deadlines noted are available below.

HOSTS:           Doc 5 - APPLICATION form for Hosts

CANDIDATES: Doc 2 - APPLICATION form for Candidates                      

                        Doc 3 - DECLARATION for Candidates

 

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the European Hospital and Healthcare Federation have published the report 'An Overview of the Role of Nurses and Midwives in Leadership and Management in Europe,' written by the UK HOPE National Coordinator Hilary Watkins.  You can download a copy  here, or else email us to request a printed copy.