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The Norm Chronicles: stories and numbers about danger by Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter 11 Jun 2013 | 12:10 am
Blastland and Speigelhalter tell us that the great puzzle about danger is “a million stories describe it, feelings inform it, and a million occasions conspire for or against every incident –...
Sir David Nicholson announced yesterday, a major review of NHS strategy in England. Thank goodness! 7 Jun 2013 | 09:57 pm
Sir David Nicholson announced yesterday, a major review of NHS strategy in England. Thank goodness ! While some will argue that the review could lead to more uncertainty about objectives, this is of...
Risk Intelligence: how to live with uncertainty by Dylan Evans (2012) 3 Jun 2013 | 10:48 am
Doctors don’t have much of it. If Dylan Evans is right then the general lack of risk intelligence (RQ) in doctors could be the root cause for complications in one in ten inpatient episodes. ...
What has social media got to do with quality, safety, risk management and governance in the NHS? 1 Jun 2013 | 01:45 am
What has social media got to do with quality, safety, risk management and governance in the NHS? Much more than we might think, including: helping patients give their views on their experien...
What I learned about Alan Turing, code-breaker and the father of computer science 31 May 2013 | 12:38 pm
On Tuesday, I visited Code Breaker: Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy, at the Science Museum in London. What struck me most, was that it took such a long time for him to be more fully appreciate...
NHS65: how does the NHS definition of quality measure-up relative to Germany, Australia and the USA? 31 May 2013 | 01:34 am
In this article, I give suggestions as to how NHS England can refresh it’s definition of quality, in the interests of patients, providers, commissioners and in time for the NHS65 celebrations taki...
Patients Come Second: leading change by changing the way you lead (2013) by Paul Spiegelman and Britt Berrett 27 May 2013 | 09:28 pm
Now there’s a controversial name for a book that has so much to offer leaders in healthcare ! We know from NHS patient and staff surveys, that there is a direct correlation between employee ...
‘Thanky Panky’ reports make performance management interesting 14 Apr 2013 | 11:30 pm
My phone rang on a Monday morning in early February. The call was from an NHS Trust. They wondered if I was interested in helping them achieve what they hadn’t achieved so far – that all re...
‘An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care’ Prof Avedis Donabedian 6 Feb 2013 | 04:19 am
He is regarded as the father of quality assurance in health care. In his final book, Avedis Donabedian builds on the concepts that he introduced in earlier books and articles, such as the ...
NHS Medical Careers 12 Jan 2013 | 05:37 am
While I am not a clinician myself, I am a big fan of NHS Medical Careers. Its the only website in the UK solely dedicated to helping Doctors make the most of their medical careers. And if it’s goo...
