Most of my work in health care has been in the US, but I have always been fascinated by universal health care and the NHS. And so I jumped at the opportunity earlier this year to work with the NHS ...
Last weekend I was lucky enough to go to FutureFest – an exciting multimedia and multi-sensory imaging of the future. Creating the atmosphere of part-conference, part-exhibition and part-festival (...
At the Health Foundation we’ve been supporting teams to test their innovations for over five years through our Shine programmes and, now, through our new Innovating for Improvement programme. We ar...
Following on from my visit to the Garfield Innovation Center in Oakland, I was just as lucky to have chance to see the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health in Washington last month. Whereas...
Over twenty years ago, my first job at the Department of Health was setting up the NHS Health Technology Assessment programme. At the same time, another programme was coming into being – the Cochra...
I first heard of Kaiser Permanente in 1997. Alan Milburn, the then health minister, had asked officials to look into the approaches Kaiser Permanente used to deliver health care. Finding out who (o...
There has been great celebration surrounding the newly selected ‘vanguards’, the 29 areas touted as the beacons of hope in delivering the NHS Five Year Forward View. The vanguards have emerged from...
At Harvard Medical School I was exposed to a wide variety of hospitals, consultancies, and general practices as I completed each component of my physician training. As I rotated through each medica...
I arrived in Orkney on a cold winter night in 2010. My journey across the sea had been particularly restless and choppy, much like the challenges that lay ahead in my new role as Chief Executive at...
It's no secret that health and care systems all over the world are under pressure and organisations are facing increasingly complex challenges. Some of the current approaches to tackling these chal...
