Here's a talk on innovation in healthcare that I gave this afternoon at Imperial Business School to Professor James Barlow's students. I hope they found it useful. Innovation in Healthcare I've been interacting with James for a few years now. He's … Continue reading
I heard some time ago that the works of Iris Murdoch, a literary figure famous not just for her works but also her descent in the hell of Alzheimer's disease, trace the decline of her mind at an early stage, … Continue reading
It is always nice to see something come to fruition. This is especially true of a Ph.D thesis, the production of which I often liken, in terms of its experience quotient, to the excretion of a concrete cabbage. So I … Continue reading
Via the BMJ (Vol 337 11th October) a short piece about Gina Glover, an artist who has just finished a year long residency at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust For more see Art In Hospitals which is a catalogue … Continue reading
Thinking Allowed (10th Sept 2008) alerted me to this fascinating looking book on, well, poo. It appears to adopt the now familiar 'social life' approach examining a substance and set of practices which, for reasons that are as obvious as … Continue reading
The Mass Observation project/movement lives on (new website too). I'm particularly intrerested in the latest directive – call to observers to write in on a specific issue (want to become one?) - which is focused on health and social care experiences – You … Continue reading
A brief excerpt from the wonderful book by Atul Gawande Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Perfomance, which details a WHO led effort to try to prevent the spread of polio in southern India when a case was detected there in … Continue reading
One of the participants at the Chronic Care at the Summit, Prof Roy Jones, qouted the second verse of this poem. Let Me Die A Young Man’s Death (Roger McGough) Let me die a young man’s death,not a clean and … Continue reading
I’ve just given a keynote on Intel’s healthcare R&D at The Wellcome Trust on Euston Road, London. It seemed to go well enough. We got to visit some of the exhibition areas afterwards in the newly refurbished venue (which is … Continue reading