Over the last few months, I have noticed that Amy Edmondson (Harvard Profession and psychological safety ‘guru’) was regularly sharing on twitter passages and personal reflections from a book. The book was called ‘The Culture Code’ written by Daniel Coyle, and the snippets I saw inspired me to read the book myself. The…
A method for transforming ambitious goals to change mental health care provision into reality
In this months BMJ Quality & Safety, Gordan Schiff and Kaveh Shojania have written a thoughtful article which holds at it’s centre the recent publication by Lucean Leape “Making Healthcare Safe; The Story of the Patient Safety Movement”. Artiklen af Schiff og Shojania: Looking back on the history of patient…
At the end of this year, we would like to invite you to take a few moments to pause and imagine the future and what role compassion has in healthcare, and importantly, how you can make an impact, because as we know, compassion is more than empathy; it includes the…
Resilience in healthcare (RiH) can be conceptualised as the adaptive capacities of a healthcare system that allow it to maintain delivery of high-quality care during and after events that challenge, change or disrupt its activities, ranging from high-impact situations such as a pandemic, through to everyday challenges such as lack…
Kindness and compassion in health and social care are a key area of focus internationally for 2021.
Adam Grant (organisational psychologist at Wharton University – https://www.adamgrant.net/) has recently publish a book which I consider an important resource for anyone interested in understanding how we develop and maintain our beliefs, thoughts and identities. As the title suggests, the aim of the book is to help us to reconsider, rethink,…
Exnovation may be a valuable tool in the improvement science toolbox, so why isn’t it used more? In the following article I explore what barriers inhibit it’s use and potential enablers to support its application.
Dare you have a conversation about the C-word?
When the historians summarise 2020 as a chapter in a book, it is likely that it will end with a cliff-hanger; on the horizon are various COVID-19 vaccines which will likely help return our lives back to normality. But how will this next phase of our COVID-19 experience go?