2020 is the year of the nurse and the midwife, a year to focus on the important, yet often invisible influence nurses and midwives have...
In his ground-breaking publication on patient safety (A Promise to Learn, A Commitment to Act, 2013), Dr Don Berwick laid down a radical...
In my previous blog I wrote about how we approached change in order to reduce the ongoing crowding in our emergency department (ED). This...
In October's 30 Day Challenge for the Transforming Perceptions of Nursing and Midwifery we are celebrating the diversity of people who...
That was a question reflected upon during a session at the recent Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester. The session was led by...
Would you like to be part of a main stage session at this year’s Health and Care Innovation Expo - and without having to travel anywhere?...
This year Rwanda will be hosting Africa's Conference on Emergency Medicine. With the recent steep gains they've made it's an ideal...
As many of you will have seen from Twitter I’ve spent the last week or so in Rwanda visiting health clinics and hospitals around the...
We know that protecting the physical and emotional wellbeing of staff is key to a happy workforce, and to good performance. How can we...
Alumni and friends of The School for Change Agents from all over the world joined together recently to co-create a new era of change....
Having just returned from my trip to see India's health system I was telling a friend about everything I'd seen and learnt. They...
Dear everyone, I suspect a few of you will now have seen me posting various pictures and thoughts on the Indian health system. A few...
Do you find yourself asking “why do we do that?” and the only answer is “because we always have” or worse still ... “I don’t really...
The second of the five #ProjectA tweet chats took place on 27th July, with more than 65 ideas shared for improving patient pathways....
Dear Neonatal Unit Nurses at St George’s Hospital I cannot name you all, but you know who you are. You looked after my son Hugo, born at...
I recently had the privilege of speaking at the prestigious national conference, the Health Service Journal Patient Safety Congress. The...