I read NICE Guidance (NG19) – Diabetic foot problems: prevention and management. It comes after attending a diabetes meeting in which I had to walk past 135 single shoes to get to my seat. That is a powerful message to identify that we must try and reduce the number of amputations. Everyone knows that prevention […]
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How to achieve more by doing less
I want to share a few thoughts as I hand over the baton to a new generation of leaders in NHS Alliance and return back to the Primary Care Foundation. The best example of offering advice to a new generation is the one and only no.1 hit with a clear and unambiguous public health message […]
Michael Dixon – Thank you and goodbye
This evening is a time to reflect and renew. I am going to do the reflection. What have we achieved in eighteen years, what lessons have we learnt what and of the future? First, some more very heartfelt and overdue thankyous. To all of you – friends and allies – for coming here today and […]
4 things in 4 years: reshaping NHS Alliance
It has been an extraordinary privilege to lead NHS Alliance alongside Michael Dixon. I had no plans to become a chief executive again but Michael is a difficult man to say no to, and the opportunity to work alongside him and the extended family of the NHS Alliance was impossible to resist. So, as we […]
A tale of two conferences
‘We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments, philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.’ – Simon Manwaring ‘“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”― Carl […]