Health is an information problem. Four hundred million people without access to healthcare need authoritative, trustworthy and actionable information as a priority. At the same time, millions of health workers in rural and urban communities need robust clinical support. This growing ‘knowledge gap’ can only be addressed with a systemic approach driven by digital healthcare […]
Pre-Primary Care:Behavioural Insights
Practically every major speech on healthcare reform in the last decade has referred to the three outriders of the coming apocalypse: an ageing population, the rise of chronic conditions and the surge in expectation fuelled by innovation. This tsunami of demand, complexity and expectation is careering towards the world’s most mature and immature health economies […]
Time to Define the Healthcare we all Deliver – Pre-Primary Care
Some of you may have already seen this but I’ve released a report with Matteo Berlucchi, the Chief Executive, of Your.MD defining a new healthcare sector – pre-primary care. The report, was launched at the HealthTech Summit in Lausanne, has been endorsed by Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, and includes contributions from leading minds in the […]
A Good Death
Death – we need to talk about it. Actually, we don’t, what we need to talk about is planning the way we want to be cared for in advance of a medical emergency. We plan for retirement by squirreling money away and making plans for cruises. We plan for the future of our loved ones […]
Can the Public Save the NHS in 2015
Will 2015 be the year the NHS realises only the public can save it? The NHS can streamline, innovate, cut and chivvy all it wants to improve quality and save money but only citizens can change how they use the service. The NHS is a collective social insurance scheme that requires a sense of ownership […]
Re-open nominations (RON)
There is a point at which not voting can no longer be classified as apathy. There’s a point when apathy becomes a statement without a signature. That is the point when you re-open nominations. Every ballot paper deserves a RON (re-open nominations) and every citizen should be legally required to state whether they want to […]