by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 21, 2025 | Budgeting, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Health and Wellbeing, 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 16, 2025 | Leadership & Decision Making, Budgeting, Change Management, Motivation, 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, 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...
by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 7, 2025 | Fundamentals, Budgeting, Leadership & Decision Making, Problem Solving & Decision Making
“You can’t do that, it’s not in the budget!” “You can’t do that, it’s not in the budget!” This phrase is used time and time again across the NHS, acting as an immovable roadblock to change and innovation. But is it really true? Or is it a convenient lie that maintains...
