by John-Paul Crofton | Mar 30, 2025 | Community & Social Challenges, Community, Health and Wellbeing, 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 | Jan 7, 2025 | NHS, Change Management, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Social Innovation
How do we stop yet another NHS plan from failing? The plan is not the solution. What matters most is HOW it is delivered. A New NHS Plan For Change?Sadly the Other NHS Plans Failed to Make an ImpactNHS Planning Implementation ProblemsHow Can the NHS and Healthcare...
by John-Paul Crofton | Oct 1, 2024 | NHS, Change Management, Community & Social Challenges, Health and Wellbeing, Social Change, Social Innovation, Social Innovation
It is not ‘The NHS’, it is ‘Our NHS’. The relationship between the NHS and the society it serves is one of deep interdependence. When people talk about the NHS as a separate thing they are ignoring its and our health is dependent on each other. The phrase “our...
by John-Paul Crofton | Nov 16, 2022 | Problem Solving & Decision Making, Social Innovation, Stakeholder Engagement, Tools For Change
Traditional approaches to stakeholder engagement treat people as thoughtless zombies. Who are to be channelled down narrow paths, with spam communications. Instead, create a web of engagement empowering people to engage through building awareness with our projects in...
by John-Paul Crofton | Oct 29, 2022 | Leadership & Decision Making, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Social Change, Social Impact, Social Innovation, Social Innovation
Creating social progress through survival of the fittest is a core idea at the heart of our Western societies. We are told it is a natural law that we must follow or escape from. But it has failed time and time again and is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of...
by John-Paul Crofton | Oct 29, 2022 | Social Impact, Leadership, Leadership & Decision Making, Social Innovation
Many people are wrong about how to define what is social impact. How you define social impact matters. People, the future and communities are not predictable. Most views of social impact and the strategies based on that pretend that people are little more than robots...
