At the core of Really Learning is Valerie Iles

 Valerie Iles B Pharm MBA

Valerie is an independent academic consultant working in the field of health management. She teaches, researches and writes about issues at the clinical/managerial interface, and works with a number of universities and client organisations as well as with individuals and teams. She has a particular interest in action learning as a  development process and  works with many different forms of participative reflection.

For nine years she was the director of the Health Management Group at City University, designing and directing three masters degree programmes, including a novel M.Phil in Health Management which integrated taught and research elements, and the flagship Masters Degree in Health Management. She has also been vice chair of a large NHS Trust and of an inner city Health Action Zone.

Valerie’s publications include:

Developing Change Management Skills. A resource for helath care professionals and managers. November 2004, co-authored with Steve Cranfield. A set of realistically complex but fictional case studies which illustrate the use and limitations of  a range of change managent tools. To order or download click here.

Organisational Change. A review for healthcare managers, professionals and researchers. May 2001, co-authored with Kim Sutherland. This was given the British Association of Medical Management book of the year award in 2002. To order or download click here.

Really Managing Health Care, Open University Press 1997, commended in BMA book of the year awards 1998. Second edition to be published in 2005. To place an order click here.

Health Management, distance learnng materials at Masters level for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Valerie is particularly interested in the marriage of classical management approaches with insights from other fields of study and has recently been working with the NHS Confederation on a tool to enable managers to exploit some of the thinking of complexity theory when developing strategy.

She is an honorary senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Medicine, and an Associate of OD Partnerships Network.

Valerie works with a number of other consultants, depending on the size and nature of the project. She particularly enjoys opportunities to work with Julia Vaughan Smith of Anaptys, Verity Kemp of Health Planning, and Steven Cranfield of Creative Collaborations.

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