The 2016 festival of governance was themed, “The future is in our hands.” The festival hoped to inspire new ideas that aimed to create a future “better than the one that is inevitable.” – Jaco Marais, Creative director, GGI.
This year’s Keynote speakers were Caroline Clarke and Lord Bob Kerslake. Clarke has worked in NHS finance for most of her career having been Director of finance at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and City and Hackney Primary Care Trust. She is currently a member of the advisory board to the learning clinic and sits on the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy health panel.
Lord Bob Kerslake was the head of Home Civil Service and was the chair of king College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust from 2015 to 2017. In 2015 he was introduced as a Crossbench life peer in the House of Lords. He is the President of the local Government Association.
The 2016 festival also included a Q&A with leading field experts such as Professor Jaideep Prabhu who is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, the International Journal of Research in Marketing and the Journal of Management Studies as well as Angela Rippon OBE, an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter.
Good Governance award recipient
The 2016 Good Governance award was presented to Sir William Wells by Baroness Virginia Bottomley. Sir William was founding chair of the NHS Appointments Commission that helped raise the bar for NHS boards by overseeing NHS board appointments and developing the national cadre of NHS non-executive directors. Sir William’s contribution to the NHS governance system we have today, with the pivotal focus on accountable local NHS boards, underpinned the entire NHS reforms of the Blair and Brown governments that delivered a stepped-change in the quality and performance of the health system in England.
The Festival review
The Festival Review is the Good Governance Institute’s annual report on the world of good governance. This document pushes our collective creativity to the edge. It is a printed document that every year reviews the scope of good governance and its influence on everyday life.
The review is built by writers, artists, photographers, researchers, thought-leaders, designers, experts and editors to make for an impactful statement that can be both shared and treasured for generations to come.
