GREAT PROGRESS BUT OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS REMAIN Tremendous progress has been made over the last forty years due to the second healthcare revolution, with the first healthcare revolution having been the public health revolution of the nineteenth century. Hip replacement, transplantation, and chemotherapy are examples of the high tech revolution funded by increased investment and, in the last twenty years, optimised by improvements in quality, safety and evidence based decision making. However there are still three
We have different resources for different needs, which can help drive improvements organisationally, individually or both. Organisational Development Our aim is to help organisations transform their culture and develop integrated systems of care. We will help single organisations that want to transform its culture/service or a group of organisations that want to work together to develop networks to deliver integrated systems of care to their populations. We start with a transformation workshop which helps the
How can we meet increasing need & demand with no more money? Clinical advances of the last fifty years have led to dramatic increases in life expectancy and years of life free from disability. However, every health service still faces five outstanding problems and four new challenges that are interlinked: Better Value Healthcare has solutions Better Value Healthcare (BVHC) is a solutions company, which manufactures resources to solve problems, meet challenges and engage the drivers
The mission of the Surgical Leadership Academy is to help surgeons become even better leaders In England alone there are about two thousand surgeons in management and leadership positions in addition many young surgeons see the need to develop understanding of management and leadership to prepare them for the health service or academic jobs. The distinction, and relationship, between management and leadership is now generally agreed with leaders shaping and changing culture whereas managers work
How do we know that walking does more good than harm? One source of evidence is that the people who walk say that walking makes them feel, and look, good. But this does not prove that walking is beneficial or, as is said when new medical treatments are evaluated, that it does more good than harm. It might be that people who feel good about themselves and who are healthy, walk more than people who