Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:38 pm on 19 July 2017.
Diolch, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, the interim parliamentary review on health and social care has highlighted that there remain significant barriers for good ideas and policies to translate fully throughout the whole of the NHS due to cultural resistance and a fear of failure. There’s a recognition, evidence based, that a significant proportion of the public sector are often doing things without understanding what really works, and it stresses the need not to be afraid of failure, but to learn from it, because this approach will allow for a far more innovative and open approach to change that can only have positive outcomes.
Cabinet Secretary, I’m sure you’re aware that the Behavioural Insights Team, which works very closely with the Westminster Government, sets out to encourage the public sector to address change in a more similar way to the private sector. I was wondering, and what I would like to know is: have you engaged with or considered engaging with organisations such as the Behavioural Insights Team so that we can fully engineer effective and sustainable change throughout the Welsh NHS?