How do you know you have a productivity problem?

Productivity, particularly within the NHS, is often shrouded in misconceptions, myths and hearsay. Compounded with the narrative often put out in the national press about the NHS being underfunded and staff feeling overworked and undervalued, the word “productivity” in some circles, is greeted with hisses and boos, and kept as far from the conversation as…

To mask or not to mask, that is the question!

14 weeks in self-quarantine. I live in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.  Today, (June 2nd), the television news announced that Arizona registered its largest daily increase in new Covid cases of 1,772 new cases in one day.  This may not seem large to some of you where the populations in your countries is much greater; but Arizona…

Getting to the heart

It’s incredibly easy to go into a dark room and look at some numbers. But, unless you’re willing to go right to the frontline and see what goes on, you not only risk your data being discredited and dismissed as inaccurate, you lack the opportunity to get a full picture of everything that is going…

Can we afford to just restart?

As NHS services from elective surgeries to outpatients to imaging begin to restart and provide patients with the care they need, we must be bold and avoid returning to a culture of perverse incentives, low productivity and inadequate uses of time that take valuable clinicians away from what is important – the provision of high…