Stakeholder engagement, public consultation and communications
Our partner for large-volume stakeholder engagement and communications management support - particularly for public consultation programmes and major service change.
Why we partner with Olovus
Major workforce transformation programmes - service redesigns, reconfigurations, large operating model changes - almost always reach a point where the work has to engage and communicate with thousands of people. Patients, staff, the public, partners, politicians, regulators.
That is a specialist discipline of its own, and it is not what Health Dynamics does best. Olovus (formerly Stand) has spent more than a decade doing exactly that.
When a client engagement needs that capability, we don't try to grow it overnight inside Health Dynamics. We partner with the people who have spent years doing it well.
How a joint engagement works
We lead; Olovus deliver the engagement strand. Health Dynamics leads a service redesign or transformation programme. Olovus is brought in to lead the patient, public and stakeholder engagement and communications strand.
Olovus lead; we deliver the workforce strand. Olovus is leading a consultation or engagement programme, and the workforce dimension of that change needs specialist support.
Where it shows up in our services:
Change management · Workforce transformation · Strategic advisory & diagnostics · Patient experience & involvement
What Olovus brings
- Specialist patient and public involvement at scale - asset-based engagement, advisory groups, large-volume listening exercises.
- Statutory public consultation expertise, including the legal, regulatory and good-practice frameworks for major service change.
- Strategic communications and engagement strategy for complex, politically sensitive programmes.
- Independent analysis and reporting of engagement and consultation findings.
- A senior team that has personally led engagement and communications inside the NHS.
What we bring
- The workforce, OD, change and transformation expertise that defines what the change actually is.
- The strategic and programme leadership of the overall engagement.
- The integration between the engagement work, the workforce design and the delivery plan.
- A single, accountable client relationship across the whole programme.
Example use cases
- A clinical service reconfiguration in which Health Dynamics leads the workforce and change design and Olovus runs the formal public consultation.
- A target operating model implementation in which Olovus delivers the staff engagement and communications strand alongside Health Dynamics' workforce and OD work.
- A community engagement programme for a place-based health inequalities strategy.
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