Over recent months, I’ve been testing out a checklist to help organisations assess how ready they are to start improvement projects and see what else they need to put in place. The checklist was de...
How does a political party stand out from the crowd in relation to the NHS in the lead up to a UK general election? Typically, they attack the prevailing government’s strategy and track record. Commit...
Next week, on 5 May, Northern Ireland will elect their new Assembly to oversee its devolved functions. If you aren’t as up-to-date as you might like to be on how the system works in Northern Ireland, ...
There are a lot of problems in the NHS right now. And there are a lot of articles and blogs listing them one by one in all their glory. I’ve even written some of them. But this isn’t one of those blog...
James Titcombe is a name that is becoming increasingly familiar to many of you I suspect. James’s son died at Morecombe, and has been the subject of a number of investigations. Last week the Parlia...
In 1948, the government introduced legislation which put a duty on estate agents to involve people in the purchase or rental of their houses, preventing the agent from entering into legally binding pu...
Fifteen years ago I was involved in developing a performance assessment framework for the NHS – an attempt to provide the public with a rounded analysis of their local NHS bodies. At the time, we were...
Imagine having a normal pregnancy, only to have a difficult birth ending in a damaged baby. Imagine the damage was preventable, if only the obstetric care had been better. Your baby would not recover,...
Last week the Secretary of State for Health delivered a speech on how safety would be improved in the NHS and bold pledges were made to reduce avoidable harm. Patient safety has long been a priority f...
The tendency to want to measure things has existed for as long as humans have walked the earth. More specifically, in the case of health and healthcare, recorded efforts to systematically measure care...
