May has been a month of perpetual motion for me, and as it comes to a close I realise it has brought growing evidence that my wonderful team and I are part of an unstoppable movement for change in the way we all support each other in our communities and at work. It is easy […]
What do you think when you hear the phrase “health and social care integration”? If you work in or around British care services, it’s a phrase you’ll have heard so often you might no longer think about its meaning. Scotland’s chief nursing officer, Fiona McQueen, hears it as much as anyone — but she is […]
NHS staff retention has declined over this decade and showed no improvement last year, the Health Foundation’s annual workforce review reported this week. The problem is most severe in community trusts, with an average attrition rate of 20 per cent (p.3), which, of course, leads to increased demand elsewhere in the system. “If staff shortages continue, this […]
This was going to be a blog about a meeting. On Friday Public World had a lunch meeting with Buurtzorg’s Jos de Blok and members of the four neighbourhood nursing teams that we are currently supporting to introduce the Buurtzorg approach to health and social care here in the UK. We were excited about bringing […]
OSCA’s lead for public participation and leadership development, Richard Wilson, met with Public World’s Brendan Martin’s to ask about the early learning from Buurtzorg pilots in the UK. This is his blog.
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens was refreshingly candid recently when he told leaders of NHS provider organisations that they would have to manage without more money. That disappointed many of them, and their staff, especially those employed in the two out of every three trusts that finished the last financial year in deficit. But […]
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