Archive for category: Blog

/ October 6, 2011 11:47

Systemic Change

Great marketing for the book of course but an interesting little movie which makes some good points about the needs for a systemic approach to understanding change.

/ April 21, 2011 18:15

Makes you wonder how the reforms are being informed doesn’t it?

The Health Industry Lobbying Tour from Mancha Productions on Vimeo. Private Healthcare Networks PDF Download

/ April 12, 2011 11:50

Where have we been hiding?

Well, the last few months have been busy. As Mr Lansley and his crew have been “pausing and listening” we have been doing other things, namely working to support the establishment of a new social enterprise venture – PATIENTSTORIES Building on our work using film to document work around quality and safety, we decided it was time to get focussed [...]

/ February 9, 2011 11:29

Lansley Debunked…?

For those of you who “tweet” (or just read the Saturday Guardian) this is probably very old news but for those like me who are a bit behind I recommend you have a look at this article by Ben Goldacre. In particular, I like his comments about finding all health service administrative models equally boring! For my part, I am [...]

/ December 10, 2010 18:51

Can you Ice the Cake?

Early in my career I learnt that there were three core positions that were necessary to be able to adopt if you wanted to be successful (or at least even just survive) as a consultant. The first was curiosity and the ability to be genuinely interested in people, their contexts and situations; and the stories that they told about their [...]