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 | 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 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...
