Health Directions: Consultancy – Facilitation – Support & Development

Health Directions is a longstanding network of experienced independent consultants. Our experience covers a wide range of issues and activities within the health, social care and broader public policy landscapes. We work with communities, partnerships, organisations, leaders, teams, groups and individuals.
Recent commissions include: research and evaluation, action learning, service redesign, policy and strategy development and implementation, community and public engagement.

We pride ourselves on our ability to co-design ways of tackling complex challenges, rather than relying on ‘off the shelf’ approaches or over-simplified formulae. We spend energy on making sure we truly listen as well as communicate clearly. Our clients find this approach delivers what they need and they usually ask us back.
We all face changing times and we are in the midst of changing our web presence to reflect this. Bear with us!

Meanwhile you can still book on our Open Space Training Programme (PDF), email - Contact Us or contact members who may be able to help you:
Booking form for next Open Space course October 2010 (Word Doc file)

Marsaili Cameron:

Marsaili helps people and organisations say what they mean to say – and align their words with action. Over 30 years of working independently as consultant, writer, researcher, teacher and facilitator, she has crossed and re-crossed the boundaries between public, not-for-profit and private sectors – putting her in a good position to share reflections on national trends. Recent projects focus on evaluation and strategy development. Contact Marsaili

Maria Duggan:

Maria has a particular interest and expertise in public mental health, service-user participation and beyond this, to asset-based community development and the ‘co-production’ of community well-being involving local people and excluded groups. Maria has had over 30 years experience in academia, heath and social care management and local and national health and social care policy and strategy development and implementation. Current work includes supporting regional work on health inequalities and ‘Investment for Health’ and social value strategies in the North West, scoping end of life care research in support of the national End of Life Care strategy and working with a number of local partnerships to develop and implement ‘co-designed’ health education and social care strategies. Contact Maria

Roma Iskander:

Roma is an expert facilitator with a deep understanding of ways to engage people and design and facilitate participation with communities, service users and organisations. Roma is currently working with ways to engage people in commissioning priorities and the development of services – she also offers training programmes (together with other Health Directions members) on inspiring engagement, participation and action. Contact Roma

Sheila Marsh:

Sheila has worked independently since 1987 in the public and not-for-profit sectors, specialising in leadership development, partnership and work across boundaries in health and social care, and in facilitation to support policy/strategy development, research and evaluation. She is currently working on evaluation of a LINk and of an end-of-life care project and in supporting regional work on health inequalities and ‘investment for health’ outside the NHS in the North West. Contact Sheila

Jud Stone:

Jud is an organisational consultant and UKCP registered group analytic psychotherapist. Coming from a background in education she works with groups in a variety of clinical and organisational settings. These include: facilitating Action Learning sets in the NHS, Local Government and Voluntary Sector. She works with troubled teams; is currently evaluating a LINk. Her clinical work includes conducting staff supervision and support groups in mental health settings, experiential groups on psychotherapy trainings and analytic psychotherapy groups. Contact Jud

Suzanne Tyler:

Suzanne has 25 years experience in health management and policy, now working predominantly on service redesign, improving productivity and informing commissioning. In recent years, she has focused her work once again within maternity services, including acting as consultant to a number of PCTs and acute trusts to conduct services reviews and develop commissioning plans; focussing on service improvement and specifically reducing infant mortality. In particular, she has been instrumental in developing an understanding of the impact of Payment By Results and has acted as advisor to professional bodies, SHAs and the DH. Contact Suzanne