Part of a series of technical posts describing specialist programmes and the concepts, methods and tools developed to deliver them.
Collaborative Commissioning
In Conspiracy or Incompetent
Whether in the middle of it, or in receipt of the sharp end of it, can you tell the difference between being in conspiracy and being incompetent?
Beyond Complexity
Oliver Wendell Holmes (OWH) was a Supreme Court Justice who once said something so profound, that few people at the time, including himself, really understood the depth of the sentiment. There are a few slightly different versions, quoted in various places, but I think this one best captures the sentiment. He also said a few... Continue Reading →
Dai and Sid and the Compassionistas…
Right! Normal service is resumed as I charge out of my curmudgeonly corner wielding my philosophical axe. What's for the chop this time: all the soft-arsed fluffy misappropriation of that bloody word Compassion. It's all over the place, used as the apologists suffix of choice tagged onto 'organisational compassion' or 'ecological compassion'. It's used as... Continue Reading →
Unscheduled Cappuccino, a Blue Boris and a Proper Doris
For more years than I care to mention, I've been embroiled in a long term programme of work exploring flows in healthcare. In simple terms, how the work and the patients move around the system. For the past two years it's gone onto the back burner. Actually the instruction from the then hopeless Leaderist, was... Continue Reading →
10 Great Resources for Systems Thinking and Complexity in Health
An absolutely excellent resource for anyone with a penchant for mashing up some systems theory, healthcare and "how to work in a way that is more congruent with the people and communities you are actually a small part of". That last bit is mine. I certainly wouldn't put my own contributions in the same category... Continue Reading →
Complexity and Public Health
I'm just stretching the WordPress muscles a few times to get used to it, so I thought that it would be best for me to set the tone ... Philosophically Speaking! We are taught that to make a decision we must gather all of the available evidence and then rationally and objectively calculate the correct... Continue Reading →
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