Sickness Absence In The NHS - What If We Looked At It Differently?
At the risk of either stating the obvious, or being devil's advocate there is something about managing sickness absence in the NHS I am curious about. For as long as I can remember (I worked in HR in the mid-80's) there has been a focus on managing sickness absence in the NHS and in the decades that followed we have changed, or improved the way we collect and collate the data, the way we forecast trends, and the way we manage individual cases of sickness whether they be long
Putting The Social Back Into Care
Having worked in and around healthcare for nearly 40 years, and having been involved in, co-designed, led, and evaluated multiple organisational development and change initiatives and interventions, with teams, groups, departments, boards, within whole organisations, and amongst organisations/across a system, I have observed multiple structural, technological, and process changes, some of which have worked for the better, some maybe not so. Where there has been a focus on peo
