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 | Mar 24, 2025 | Budgeting, Change Management, Community & Social Challenges, Cost of living, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, Measurement, 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 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 8, 2025 | Measurement, Community & Social Challenges, Engagement, Health and Wellbeing, Leadership & Decision Making, Learning, Motivation, NHS, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Public Services Innovation, Purpose & Wellbeing, Social Impact, Social Innovation
Healthcare is driven by measurement; tracking performance, improving efficiency, and meeting targets. But in our obsession with data, are we losing sight of what really matters? When clinicians spend more time filling out forms than listening to patients, we risk...
