About us
The HPCA has begun the transition to a Community Interest Company (CIC), marking a significant shift in our operational framework. This change underscores the company's commitment to serving the community by prioritising public benefit over profit.
As a CIC, HPCA can now reinvest profits into community projects, enhancing its ability to provide essential support to those working in project and change across health and care services.
This transition also ensures greater transparency and accountability, aligning the organisation's objectives with the needs and interests of the communities it serves.
We initially established the Healthcare Project and Change Association (HPCA) to build on the work of the original NHS Project Futures volunteer team. A team that was developed as a community from 2017 onwards by the community of NHS project professionals in a virtual capacity to support each other in their work to deliver on the objectives of their respective organisations.
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We’ve already begun a self-sustaining profession across the NHS
Our aim is to create a self-sustaining profession across the NHS. The existing offer is already extensive, but we want to build on this foundation for the long term. The NHS will always be faced with change and challenges. An investment in the professionals that help us meet this challenge represents excellent value for money.
We will achieve this by:
- Building a strong network of project professionals across the regions and nationally within the NHS, by engaging with heads of project functions and regional leads in NHS organisations.
- Providing education, learning and development, encouraging professional development and enhancing staff satisfaction and retention.
- Continuing to develop policy, standards, guides and other publications.
- Securing volume discounts and benefits for those things which are done best at national level.
- Providing news, communications and a community of practice.
Equality and diversity
Embracing diversity and inclusion is an important part of project management. Value is created from difference and diverse teams can bring about higher performance. This is because project professionals and team members from diverse and different backgrounds and cultures are likely to have different experiences and perspectives they can bring to the team and project.
Embracing diversity and inclusion in the project profession will help HPCA to:
- Promote creativity and innovation.
- Boost productivity, confidence, and collective opportunity.
- Learn and incorporate the unique insights of others.
- Build an inclusive culture of unity, respect, and tolerance.
- Create a safe space for fresh new ideas and dialogues.
- Break negative stereotypes and encourage social mobility.
- Build strong relationships with all team members and the wider NHS system.
- Maximise NHS return on investment.
- deliver improved patient outcomes.