Work in progress

Our strategy was signed off by the board in late July 2024, and in August 2024 the people and communities team started to lay the groundwork for delivery of the strategy.

We have a six-month implementation plan which has been developed in partnership with the people and communities’ network of people with lived experience, our partners from the voluntary and community sector and our colleagues within NICE as members of the involvement and engagement leader’s network.

There are six initial actions:

1. Start to test new ways of working using quality improvement plan, do study act cycles to change the way in which we work.
2. Implementation of the revised non staff payment policy
3. Development of the NICE involvement and engagement leaders’ network and training
4. Set up of the working alongside people and communities’ oversight group and the nomination of a non-executive director responsible for the strategy at board level.
5. Establishment of a networks of networks to include people and communities voluntary and community and the nice involvement and engagement leader’s network. This network of networks will drive the delivery of our strategy.
6. Establish a co-produced delivery plan of actions, measures and deliverables for our Working alongside people and communities’ strategy from 2025 – 2027.

All actions are underway, and all will be completed by end of January 2025, with the staff nonpayment policy due to be implemented in August 2024.