About

About Mike and Turning Over Ltd

Mike Leaf is a public health and health improvement professional with over three decades of senior level experience in the public sector, and since 2013 has been involved in child death review governance and oversight.

He has significant board level experience, both as an executive director and in non-executive roles. That matters here, because he understands what is needed to provide assurance to strategic partners. The CDR process can be complex and has a significant administrative burden. To these ends, Mike has spent the last 12 months developing tools that support local governance arrangements, as well as reducing the admin burden.

His career has centred on developing multi-agency and multi-professional working across the NHS, local government and the third sector, applying quality improvement principles to make complex processes simpler.

Mike Leaf, smiling, in round glasses and an open-necked linen shirt.
  • Independent CDOP Chair
  • 40+ years in the public sector
  • Executive and non-executive
  • 13 years in child death review

Associations & Partners

  • Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
  • Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
  • Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council
  • Blackpool Council
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • City of Wolverhampton Council
  • NHS Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group
  • Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Lancashire County Council
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
  • NHS England
  • NHS Leadership Academy
  • The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
  • Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
  • NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group
  • Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
  • The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Health Foundation
  • University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Cumbria
  • NHS Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group
  • Walsall Council
  • Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
  • NHS Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group

What panel work has shown

Six panels, two regions

Mike currently chairs three Child Death Overview Panels in the West Midlands, and previously three panels in the Northwest. That experience of panel work and oversight has highlighted opportunities for improvement in governance and systems within the field.

What partners deal with day to day

Complex and repetitive paperwork, limited administrative capacity, and the real difficulty of turning individual case reviews into learning that changes anything.

Declaration of interest

As Chair of three CDOPs, Mike recognises the potential conflict of interest in developing saleable tools to support other CDOPs. These interests have been declared.

How we work

Everything Turning Over offers comes out of that experience rather than from a standing start. The fundamental belief is unchanged from the day the company was founded: more can be achieved when you work with others.

Direct contact

You deal with us directly, from first enquiry to delivery. No account managers, no ticketing systems.

No platform, no data transfer

The tools run in your browser on your own machine. Your data never leaves your organisation, which keeps information governance simple.

Simple invoicing

A straightforward invoice to the host organisation, usually one-off, with no per-user charges and no surprises.

Get in touch

Whether it is consultancy or one of the tools, start with a conversation. Initial conversations are free and there is no obligation.

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