I share Andy Burnham’s commitment to placing care at the centre of our economic and political systems, and who wouldn’t empathise with his determination to end rough sleeping? But does he really think he can achieve that by instruction? On the doorstep of No. 10 Downing Street on Monday Burnham drew to a close his […]
A common misconception about organisations that successfully apply self-management principles is that they have neither a power hierarchy nor central control processes. It’s an understandable error, but a fundamental one. Take Buurtzorg Nederland, among the best known such companies, having grown from a single neighbourhood care team 20 years ago into a €400 million turnover […]
Though happy enough to be an immigrant to Britain, as a citizen of the Republic of Ireland I can’t help taking particular pride and pleasure in helping to grow a community of strengths-based relational services there as well in the UK. So I’m delighted Public World has confirmed new learning and development programmes with two […]
The global tennis circus has decamped from London for another year, leaving behind not only the usual dramatic memories but also an artificial intelligence (AI) controversy with relevance far beyond Wimbledon. After 147 years, those traditionalists at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC) dispensed with line judges at their Championships this year, […]
I first came across Maff Potts via a presentation in which he was dressed up as a chicken, or it might have been a duck. A lot of yellow anyway. (Watch it here.) His slides kept going wrong, which I assumed was part of the schtick. He assured me later it wasn’t, although it was […]
This week’s launch of the #DoWith movement marked a significant step forward for those of us working to liberate public services so that they’re better able to enhance and support the creative power of the communities they serve. For us in Public World it was a particularly exciting moment, following as it did our own […]
2025 marks 10 years since Public World began our first ‘test & learn’ project inspired by the success in the Netherlands of the neighbourhood care model developed there by Buurtzorg. Buurtzorg’s founder, Jos de Blok, joined us for our first workshop with Guy’s & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) and spoke at a seminar […]
As another year draws to an end, we’re sending warm Christmas wishes to you and your teams. Our team are closing the doors for a full two weeks this year to allow for a well earned rest after another busy year and the team have each got something different they’re looking forward to . . […]
With the Government announcement last week that a ‘revised workforce plan’ will be revealed next Summer, I was prompted to get on and write another blog. So, in the original plan the government promised 170,000 more nurses, 64,000 nursing associates and 10,000 extra nursing students in England each year by 2037. These were certainly ambitious […]
We were shocked and saddened to learn yesterday of the untimely death of Guillaume Alsac, co-founder and co-director of the innovative French community nursing social enterprise Soignons Humain. Guillaume had lived bravely with a brain tumour for the previous 18 months. Public World had the privilege of working with Guillaume and his organisation for five […]