My mission statement

The times we are working in now need a great deal of accelerated change and there must be no negotiating that down. So my mission statement for this part of my consultancy career is to be clear that there needs to be and will be a lot of change from the work that I do with individuals and organisations and if organisations don’t want that, then it is probably best to go somewhere else.

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First signs of a real shift in power. Watching who is under attack can reveal who really matters.

Filed Under (Coalition Government, Narrative of reform, Reform of the NHS, Third Sector, Uncategorized) by Paul on 14-06-2011

One of the more interesting consequences of the Government’s outsourcing of their NHS reform policy is that those now under attack for wanting change are not the Government but the leaders of the Future Forum.

Today’s Times contains an article arguing for greater choice in the NHS. For me it makes a better common sense argument for choice than anything that the Government has tried to stitch together in the last 12 months. Read the rest of this entry »

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The White Paper – Liberating the NHS and the independent sector

Filed Under (Creating public value, Health Policy, NHS Providers, Reform of the NHS, Third Sector, White Paper) by Paul on 23-07-2010

If there is one group that should have received the White Paper with unalloyed pleasure it is the private sector health care companies who are trying to sell their services into the NHS. Read the rest of this entry »

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An example of ‘disruptive innovation’ from the third sector for NHS services

Filed Under (Health Improvement, Public service reform, Third party provision, Third Sector) by Paul on 19-07-2010

A little while ago I argued for the third sector developing a new business model for the delivery of NHS services. Last week ACEVO published my pamphlet on this subject coincident with my speaking at their 14th July conference. Read the rest of this entry »

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Saving for the NHS by building a new business model for the health care of people with Long Term Conditions

Filed Under (NHS Providers, Public Health, Reform of the NHS, Third Sector) by Paul on 06-07-2010

The NHS, alongside all other health care systems in developed countries will soon run out of money. All of these systems have become used to increases in resources that have more than kept pace with the increased demand for health care caused by an aging population and increased public expectations.
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