by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 1, 2026 | Neighbourhood Health, Community & Social Challenges, NHS, Public Services Innovation, Social Impact
Join us Wednesday 4th March at 10am as we transform how neighbourhood health works, Visit us at NeighbourhoodHealthAcademy.org A New Space for Community Health PractitionersWhat You’ll Find in Our CommunityWhy Neighbourhood Health Isn’t SimpleSeeing the...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 19, 2026 | Budgeting, Business Case NHS, Neighbourhood Health, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Project Funding
There has been much talk about how to fund the shift to Neighbourhood Health. With talk of ‘innovative funding models’, private investment, or cash releasing savings. This week Sir Jim Mackey suggested a different approach. “Neighbourhood Teams need to show us the...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 15, 2026 | Community, Leadership & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, NHS
What do the people creating Neighbourhood Health really think and believe? There is no big implementation plan for Neighbourhood Health instead people have to find their own path. So understanding what those people shaping Neighbourhood Health believe is vital in...
by John-Paul Crofton | Feb 5, 2026 | Leadership & Decision Making, Leadership, Motivation, Neighbourhood Health
The NHS cannot build a successful future on a platform of fear and blame. If we are to embrace the future of healthcare and the NHS, we need to have a motivated and empowered workforce to create it. But the NHS risks being held back by a culture creating rigid...
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 27, 2026 | Neighbourhood Health, Community, Community & Social Challenges, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Purpose & Wellbeing
Are you are working in neighbourhood health? Come join our practitioner led learning community. Applications are open to join our new community launching February A New Community SpaceWhat is the Neighbourhood Health Academy?What the Neighbourhood Health Academy...
by John-Paul Crofton | Jan 11, 2026 | Neighbourhood Health, NHS
Neighbourhood health has returned to the centre of health and care policy. On the surface, the NHS and local government appear to be moving in the same direction. Both talk about prevention, partnership, place, and reducing health inequalities. In practice, they are...
by John-Paul Crofton | May 19, 2025 | Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Leadership & Decision Making, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Purpose & Wellbeing
The big career decision is one full of anxiety and stress. It can feel overwhelming, it feels your whole life and future depends on it. The fact we are considering a change in a career means we don’t know what the outcome will be. How do we navigate this stressful...
by John-Paul Crofton | Apr 9, 2025 | NHS, Change Management, Community, Community & Social Challenges, Health and Wellbeing, Public Services Innovation, Social Innovation, Uncategorized
As the NHS undergoes its latest round of reform, what shape will the new NHS look like? Piecing together the evidence the new design of the NHS seems to be coming into view. I’ve call it the Layered Tree Model. What is it? How might it work? What might its...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 30, 2025 | Community & Social Challenges, Community, Health and Wellbeing, Neighbourhood Health, NHS, Public Services Innovation, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation
The Neighbourhood Health Service represents a vital shift toward local, integrated, and preventative healthcare. With the goal to deliver care directly within communities, it promises a future where health services are not only more accessible, but more personalised...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 24, 2025 | Budgeting, Change Management, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, Measurement, Neighbourhood Health, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation
As we try and create a positive social impact through people and communities, why are we continuously fighting and undermined by the decisions by our governments and organisations that don’t value people? Modern Accounting Standards Values People as...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 23, 2025 | Leadership, Budgeting, Change Management, Engagement, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making
The NHS is having to cut costs, to save £6.6 billion, but why is the approach of Wes Streeting the Health Minister acting as a terrible role model and leading the health service down a dangerous path? The NHS Budget Cutting CrisisCuts to Local Systems.A Rotten Role...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 21, 2025 | Budgeting, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Health and Wellbeing, Neighbourhood Health, NHS, Public Services Innovation, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation
The UK is facing a welfare crisis as ever more people claim benefits as they are unemployed and too sick to work. The NHS has a central role to play in creating social impact and unleashing their potential and building a new future for our society. Millions Are Too...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 20, 2025 | Leadership & Decision Making, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership, Motivation, Neighbourhood Health, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making
The spiral of control and power explains a common psychological pattern of how even well intentioned managers such as those in healthcare, find themselves focusing on control and power. Controlling Managers in Healthcare.The 3 Big Shifts in the NHS Require...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 16, 2025 | Leadership & Decision Making, Budgeting, Change Management, Motivation, Neighbourhood Health, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation
As the latest generation of politicians vow to cut bureaucracy to make the state more efficient, one thing remains clear: cutting bureaucrats is the wrong way to do it. Cutting Bureaucrats is Always PopularRecent NHS Bureaucratic CutsBureaucracy: A Misunderstood...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 14, 2025 | NHS, Budgeting, Change Management, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, Neighbourhood Health, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation
This week it was announced that NHS England is going to be abolished, well, at least in two years’ time, which, in bureaucratic terms, is lightning fast. But why did it fail? I argue that it was evolution. NHSE did not change the system, the system changed NHS...
