BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

John is Director of the Good Governance Institute. He an experienced facilitator, mentor, accredited project manager with a PhD on allocation and access to public resources. He is a visiting fellow at the Open University Business School and at the University of Glamorgan, a Fellow of the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA) now called the Chartered Quality Institute, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine where he is vice president of the health forum and a founder fellow of the Benchmarking Institute.

He has 25 years’ experience in the public sector with local government, the probation service, the NHS, the Audit Commission and the National Assembly for Wales. He has a research background and private sector experience with planning consultants and as fellow in organisational development for the Office for Public Management. He completed a three month secondment to an SHA in 2004 and has recently been developing and running Integrated Governance Development Programmes for NHS Boards.

John has been an executive director and board member of a Health Authority, project director on VFM and overseas development projects, lead facilitator for local health boards in Wales and is a writer and presenter on topics such as governance, leadership, performance management, public patient involvement, continuous improvement, partnership working and intelligent funding. He was a member of the Audit Commission Ethnic Minorities Opportunity Mentoring Programme (OMP) which won in 2003 the GOLD standard in the International Standards for Mentoring Schemes in Employment Assessment and his team won the Audit Commission Management Challenge Award in 2002

He is a founder of the public-private sector Benchmarking Institute and author of many articles and books on continuous improvement including ‘Benchmarking for best value in the NHS‘. He maintains an interest in the application of the business improvement models, multi-sector benchmarking, governance and patient advocacy.

John lives near Cardiff and also works for the National Assembly for Wales and the Health Foundation on OD and leadership projects. phone 07775524390 j.bullivant@ihm.org.uk

Developing and implementing the good governance body of knowledge

Drafting guide on clinical audit for Boards with HQIP

Working on new books on 'governance issues and tensions' and 'governance between organisations'

Editing induction guide for new Boards in Wales with NHS Confederation Wales

Developing a series of clinical board assurance prompts (BAPs) including pneumonia and diabetes

Developing models of governance for health and care organisations including hospices with help the hospices

John will be attending and presenting at ISQUA in Dublin in October 2009

The Integrated Governance handbook can be downloaded free from http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4128739