What a marvellous blog (long and luxurious) of which this is a perfect example. http://justifiedbelief.com/2013/10/15/hypothetical-reasoning-disjunctive-inference/ The answer, by the way is to recognise 'contrivance'. The question is logical, designed to get you reasoning, but it is abstracted from lived experience. In other words, they are setting you up to think "front brain" rationally for a... Continue Reading →
One of my favourite party pieces (keynote presentations) is to poke fun at the way organisations typically go about trying to change something. I usually ask permission from my audience first, so that formerly the more delicate little dispositions don't get in a lather; and latterly, so that I get to peddle out the world's... Continue Reading →
Population health has been defined in many ways, of which this opening gambit from Wikipedia is a good example, "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group".[1] I think that’s a bit dry! I like to think of population health at the scale of a community; with... Continue Reading →
Three ways of thinking that it's definitely worth getting your head around. Not the best descriptions of each I've ever read, but conveniently, all three on one Wikipedia page: Deductive reasoning (deduction) allows deriving b from a only where b is a formal logical consequence of a. In other words, deduction derives the consequences of... Continue Reading →
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 as those giant shoulders listed in the blog, however, if you’d like to see what some of the ideas look like, when you sneak them into practice in one small corner of the world, take a look here:
Fred Nelson
We believe the following ten resources to be great systems thinking and complexity in health resources for health professionals in all fields seeking to apply these ideas to their work.
1. No list of systems thinking resources would be complete without includingSystems thinking for Health Systems Strengthening by the Alliance for Health Systems Research and WHO Geneva. This is the third in a series of flagship reports by the Alliance for Health Systems Research and has had a widespread, and increasing influence. This Report provides a realistic understanding of effective approaches to strengthening systems, especially in low-income countries and global health initiatives. The report also outlines simple steps to take when seeking to apply the often-elusive systems thinking. The ten steps it gives to applying systems thinking to a health system are (1) convene stakeholders, (2) collectively brainstorm, (3) conceptualize effects (4) adapt and redesign, (5) determine…
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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 →
The first time I saw a presentation about The Nuka System of Care, I was sat at the back of a big lecture theatre, next to an old fella who was chuckling his way through the whole thing. The presentation was full of the typical marketing malarkey used by people flogging a story that they... Continue Reading →
@ProfNickRich Nick is a professor and socio-technical systems researcher, meaning he has an interest in how people and technology work together to generate high performance organisations and highly reliable organisations. Nick is a renowned academic, a polymath, and his interests cover healthcare systems reliability and high performance manufacturing and service operations. His career started at... Continue Reading →
@SionCharles Siôn is a highly experienced director and project manager with a track-record of consistently delivering against targets, achieving financial balance, delivering to plan, and setting and achieving milestones. Experienced working in a range of complex organisations and environments in multiple and sometimes challenging partnerships with public, private and third sector organisations to deliver national... Continue Reading →
@ComplexWales Matt's management career extends over 25 years having been responsible for the delivery of a wide range of services and support across Healthcare, Government, Aerospace and their partner organisations. Matt first got into the NHS by mistake, as his professional life began as an Architect. With this background - in how to design the... Continue Reading →
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