Blog
Our latest articles
Appraisal Compliance – Fattening the Goose by Weighing it?
The NHS workforce is scattered across its estate and their own homes and is likely to be so for the foreseeable future. It is in the eye of the biggest physical health crisis in modern times and as a result there is a very big, rapidly developing and mostly obscured...
HSJ Partnership Awards 2021
Due to the ongoing challenges of Covid, faced by the NHS and wider healthcare sector, the HSJ has decided to move the judging presentations for the HSJ Partnership Awards back to a later date. Presentations to decide the overall winner for each award category due, to...
A year like no other….
Absolutely nothing to do with WorkPAL, Thirsty Horses or our team!... However, on the anniversary week of the first two Covid cases being identified in the UK, it would be remiss of us not to start this newsletter by saying a HUGE “Thank-You” to all the NHS and...
Thirsty Horses Solutions gets shortlisted as a finalist for the HSJ Partnership Awards 2021
HSJ Partnership Awards 2021 finalists Thirsty Horses Solutions is delighted to announce that our partnership project “WorkPAL: Digital Workforce Innovation” submitted with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT has been shortlisted for the Workforce Innovation...
Looking after our NHS workforce
Looking after our NHS workforce In the week that lockdown ends and the Pfizer vaccine is signed off by regulators, with roll out beginning next week, here’s some more good news…. Here at Thirsty Horses, one of our key aims is to look after our people , and at...
We are the NHS: People Plan for 2020/21 – action for us all
WorkPAL meets the People Plan needs The goals of Thirsty Horses, and the way our flagship platform – WorkPAL – has been designed, perfectly complement needs and practical actions identified in the updated NHS People Plan (We are the NHS: People Plan for 2020/21...
Don’t “manage” change, embrace it
There’s a lot of talk about change management at the moment – typically accompanied by other buzzwords such as VUCA (shorthand for volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) and disruption. Organisations are hurriedly bringing together crack teams of...
Why technology and transparency go hand in hand when it comes to performance reviews
There’s a lot of noise about removing annual performance appraisals in favour of more regular dialogue, which means there are more opportunities for your people to use that voice. Employees (in particular technology-savvy millennials) want to lead those discussions...
Digital Performance Empowerment
Whether you like it or not, the dynamics of the workplace are changing. This year alone has proved that the way we intend to work can change overnight and if you are not prepared you could be left with a disorientated workforce, unsettled patients and a very concerned...
10 Easy ways to improve management
It is surprising how many organisations fail to implement change and encourage self-development when it comes to management of their team. The old school top-down approach to managing staff is not only undermining but can result in members of your team feeling...
17 Boundary Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L5 9UB 08458622585 info@thirtsty-horses.com