Throughout my decades of working with the NHS, the system has remained change-suspicious and predominantly reluctant. But what happens when no change is the risk? As we enter a new political era, after years of Conservative-led austerity, what might a hung parliament mean in change terms? It would be easy to think that this could … Continued
Will you choose a New Year self-defence revolution or a continuance of the more-for-less dictatorship? Let me ask you a simple question. Are you going to make a New Year’s resolution to look after yourself better in 2017? Now for a more provocative one. Did you set yourself the same one for 2016 and … Continued
The Trap that’s Catching Healthcare Staff by the Thousand There is a very strong tendency in life for the person who created the dirty dishes to dump then in a sink and wait for them miraculously to be cleaned up by someone else. When my teenage son does this, it is hardly a surprise and … Continued
What Mr Hammond didn’t really say in the Autumn Statement but actually said very clearly Well, at first glance the Autumn Statement could perhaps better be described as a ‘sentence’ more than a statement, already a word that has two very distinct meanings. Firstly, it was incredibly short and almost devoid of anything that … Continued