Change Guide in Action - 2026
Workshop details:
This interactive virtual workshop on the Change Guide in Action features your Health and Social Care colleagues shared experiences of delivering effective and sustainable change. In 2026, the workshops will focus on three main themes:
- Engaging Stakeholders – Communicate, Collaborate, and Connect
- Leading Change for Integration.
- Planning for Change – Creating Readiness
Learning outcomes include:
- Provide participants with real case examples of a co-design people and culture change approach, from staff who have used the Change Guide in practice.
- Focus is on an examination of the Change Guide in action and the application of the core concepts, tools and templates to a specific shared experience.
- Signpost other resources about the Change Guide to further participant’s use of the Guide as a practical tool for change.
- Highlighting key resources for the following themes:
- Engaging Stakeholders – Communicate, Collaborate, and Connect (Understanding stakeholders, enabling partnerships, integrating care).
- Leading Change for Integration (Building change skills for delivering integrated care).
- Planning for Change – Creating Readiness (Supporting new ways of working to achieve integration).
Schedule for Change Guide in Action Workshops with themes in 2026
Workshop will run from 10:30 to 1pm
If you require more information please contact changeguide@hse.ie
Change Consultation Clinic
Have you a specific ‘change challenge’ you would value support with?
The Change Consultation Clinic is facilitated by experienced HSE Organisation Development Practitioners, Organisation & Development & Design team in Kells, Co Meath.
People’s Needs Defining Change- Health Services Change Guide informs our practitioners’ practice. It is the essential guide to change, mapping out a step-by-step approach - assisting you to address the ‘messiness of change’.
The Change Guide is evidence-based and has been researched in an Irish context. It is the policy framework and agreed approach to change signed off by HSE Leadership and co-sponsored and agreed with the Trade Unions.
The pre-registration questions focus on your service and a live change challenge you would like to consult on.
How to register for a Change Consultation Clinic
- Email changeguide@hse.ie with subject line: Change Consultation Clinic to register.
- We will send you a short questionnaire to enable the OD practitioners to better understand your service and your specific change challenge.
- When we receive the completed questionnaire, we will confirm your place and time for a one-to-one session.
Please note there are limited places so early registration is advised
When and where are the clinics
Clinics will run from 10am to 1pm; your appointment time (up to 1 hour in duration) will be agreed directly with you by the Organisation Development and Change Practitioner assigned to your application and clinics are held virtually.
Schedule for change consultation clinics in 2025 (2nd Thursday of the month except for July and August):
- 9 January
- 13 February
- 13 March
- 10 April
- 8 May
- 12 June
- 11 September
- 9 October
- 13 November
- 11 December
Organisation Development and Design, Kells. Co Meath.
Email: changeguide@hse.ie
Phone: 046 925 1461
