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Great blog. Your matrix, which shows psychological safety as being a pre-requisite for learning, aligns with Deming's (usually overlooked) principle…
Great post Roger. Spot on. Having now stopped clinical practise but still deal with clinicians on a daily basis, I…
Stroke is a great example of where any mortality assessment can never stand up to any scrutiny. Patient A and…
Excellent blog, very professional, lots of useful thinking, good ideas and vision for the future of the NHS.
I worked as a medical director in the NHS for 12 years. Dr Stedman’s observations of the NHS are excruciatingly acute and his conclusions sharp, accurate and to the point. As the economist Herbert Stein famously observed: “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop”. We all know there is a crisis coming, and that crisis may provide the opportunity to create the change we, as clinicians, need, and as citizens, deserve.
Spot on Dr Stedman. You ought to be compulsory reading for the idiots on our CCG, and most nhs management. From a grumpy GP.