Whatever It Takes
I’ll keep this brief On the 20th of December 2019, when the year was in wrap up mode for many of us, I wrote an article for our newsletter paying tribute to health and human service…
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Is quality improvement sustainable long term?
Professor Chris Baggoley shares his considerable experience and ideas on whether sustainable quality improvement is possible.
Continue readingTaking Charge of Our Health and Social Care System
Noreen Dowd, Interim Accountable Officer of NHS Oldham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) met with Kevin Hardy and Paul Ingle in April this year in London and shared some of her early experiences of Local Care Organisations in…
Continue readingPrimal Living for Modern Life
It’s a new year and as tradition holds for many, the setting out of resolutions at the attempt at a better you. But how many of these actually stick? For me, it’s not about setting temporary goals that would be considered unsustainable long term but rather making small…
Continue readingBook Review: The Health Gap – The Challenge of an Unequal World
Michael Marmot’s work on the social determinants of health puts simply: That social injustice is bad for your health.
Continue readingHave you reached total dynamic balance?
Ten steps to unifying your life in career, family and society By Executive in Residence Kees van der Graaf Total dynamic balance. It’s what I’ve found today and what, after a successful career at Unilever that…
Continue readingBook Review: Ready? The 3Rs of preparing your organisation for the future
The 3Rs of preparing your organisation for the future by Thomas W. Malnight, Tracey S. Keys and Kees van der Graaf This is a significant new book on how leaders can balance short and long term…
Continue readingBuilding for wellbeing: how natural spaces benefit health and positive responses
In the face of more and more evidence supporting the benefits of nature and thoughtfully-designed healing spaces for patients, medical institutions are now drawing ideas from environmental psychology, neuroscience, landscape architecture and public health research to…
Continue readingLeadership and change in the new era – organisational self-knowledge and meaning
Jean Fagan looks at how organisations must conduct themselves if they are to succeed in the new era of self-knowledge and a search for meaning and how being a ‘learning organisation’ is key. ‘The first task…
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