Earlier this year, I worked with NHS England to draw an illustration which summarised the new NHS Culture of Care Standards for mental health inpatient services. Here is the final piece 😃 (1/4)

High-performing cultures are like Brian Eno's work, subtly shaping the environment rather than demanding attention. Like ambient music, culture influences everything, even when we're not aware of it. What's playing in the background of your organization? bit.ly/46c1ZYN

With the NHS declared broken and @ara_darzi asked to uncover the “hard truths about the NHS”, its productivity woes are perhaps the hardest truth of all: more money, more staff = only marginally higher outputs. Understanding this is key to fixing the NHS 🧵

Great to see the Value in Health series NHS Confederation leads with CF referenced in Dr Penny Dash's foreword to the new Review into the operational effectiveness of the CQC gov.uk/government/pub…

🚨 Junior doctors receive new £1bn pay offer - an approx 20% overall pay rise over 2 years. @BMA_JuniorDocs have agreed to put it to members. If they vote yes, it will end the dispute. Steven Swinford reveals: thetimes.com/article/0339df…

Current projections estimate 153 million people will be living with dementia by 2050. Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by tackling 14 risk factors starting in childhood, suggests new report from a standing Lancet Commission: buff.ly/46nvoPR

Culture is defined by the worst behaviour tolerated, not the perks we enjoy.

Public service policy & strategy can be like a bowl of spaghetti. Long strands of independent but similar overlapping projects that don’t work together around people & communities. Our job as leaders is to start with the person, the community & embed this approach at scale & pace

Tune into NHS Confederation's latest Health on the Line podcast with Hannah Farrar 💙🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 discussing elective recovery and our recent report ‘Achieving the 18-week standard for elective care’. 🎙️ carnallfarrar.com/health-on-the-…

It only takes 1 person in a system to stand up & say “This is wrong let’s stop” or “We’re managing decline let’s reform”. But it takes courage in a controlling culture. Finding another brave person & standing together is the start of a rebel alliance; creating impetus for change.

So sad to hear that the Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation has lost its funding & will be closing. GCSI is a brilliant source of new thinking & practice on large scale system change. Some of the GCSI pieces that have impacted my practice recently: 1) The challenge-led

Today we publish the fourth report in the Value in Health series with CF. Paving a new pathway to prevention looks at the evidence behind a key government priority and explores how we can leverage increased returns on our collective investment nhsconfed.org/publications/p…

Download the report (and the wider series) now and see what this means for your investments across your system. Thanks to Ben Richardson 💙 Asha and the CF team for their insight, research and passion. nhsconfed.org/publications/p…

🚨 New research with Health Equity North and The University of Manchester reveals significant regional disparities in community resilience across England. Coastal, rural, and Northern areas face challenges in recovering from adversity. 🔗More here: bit.ly/3Yny2mg

NHS Confederation and CF latest analysis reveals better targeting of existing money spent on prevention could deliver an extra £11 billion annual return on investment. Read the full report here⬇️ nhsconfed.org/news/investing…

Optimism is peppery, feisty and gladiatorial. It relentlessly defends hope and positivity from pessimism, defeatism and world-weariness. It does this with grit, grace and glory. Read more in my blog below: johndabell.com/2024/10/16/gla…

Today Centre for Progressive Policy and Local Trust launch a new report on neighbourhood renewal's role in delivering good work for all of England's communities🧵 tl;dr - neighbourhood programmes work + they're needed (rising tide won't lift all boats; over half of adults are out of work) 1/

Test your mettle Show your mettle Prove your mettle Share your mettle Be on your mettle Be as high-mettled as you can be

Sir Jim Mackey, Chief Executive of NHS England, covers the work needed to be done to make an NHS that is fit for the future ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/2…