The Boost learning and improvement community brings together people with a passion to improve health and care in the North East and North Cumbria. Our members come from a wide range of organisations including NHS, councils, voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, academia, service providers and others.

Boost aims to provide a platform for sharing knowledge, experiences, and best practices in a collaborative learning environment. It brings together people both virtually and face to face so members can meet, discover what else is happening across the region and focus efforts on key challenges. It’s a great way to broaden your knowledge, widen your network and learn and improve together.

As an integrated care system, we should be ambitious; we, naturally, want to be ‘the very best’ for those who use our services, for the whole population and for the people who work in our system.

Our aspiration to ‘be the best getting better’ is, however, something that can unite us all. It enables us to take immediate action, to approach tasks humbly and look upon each task as a learning opportunity.

When we choose to continually prioritise ‘getting better’ we don’t give up when we make mistakes, or when a new situation arises that challenges our knowledge and skill levels. Instead, we accept that we won’t always get it right, nor will we know everything. This leads us to adopt strategies that help us to acquire the skills required to resolve the situation and achieve success.

The learning mindset not only helps us face up to difficulties, but it also makes us interested in the difficult task. In these actions we find hope.