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Here's a 10-minute desk yoga routine Lydia devised for a project that she’s been working on. Feel free to use it, we hope that it helps get you through your day a little easier.

'The reality of health and care' is of course very little to do with policy-making. Yet that was the title of the talk I gave to explain why the neat diagrams of how health policy is supposed to work aren’t necessarily true.

If we think of collaboration as enlightened self interest, then there is an argument that the reason we survived as the dominant species is because we collaborated.

'Collaboration' is the watchword in the NHS at the moment, whether through primary care networks, integrated care systems, or other three letter acronyms. So why is it the experience of many organisations that collaboration comes despite the policy context, rather than because of it?

How can we make collaboration effective if we're not sure how to go about collaborating well? Rich Taunt navigates his way out of the cul-de-sacs of conventional NHS wisdom on collaboration.

Exploitation, punishing schedules and some massive egos. Pop music and the NHS have more in common than you might think. We've just shared the characteristics of high performing collaborations, but how many of those characteristics are visible in the world of discos and divas?