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Madeleine Harris Smith reflects on her experiences at Super Melting Pot, and discusses how we can support the health and care system to be kinder.

Anyone working in and around the health and care sector knows the stats. People are asked to do more with less, leading to staff burnout and high dropout rates. It's clear that if we are going to 'survive the system', things need to change.

Being new to any office is daunting. Being new and different to your colleagues is more daunting still. For the three of us, it wasn’t just our newcomer status that weighed heavy after accepting our offers to join Kaleidoscope, it was fear of not fitting in.

Publishing mission statements that you know you simply can’t deliver doesn’t get us anywhere. Attitudes matter, and attitudes have to be lived.

Anastasia Knox explains why we need to talk more about how little most people know about health and care, and the impact of this lack of knowledge on relationships, communications and change in the NHS.

Rich Taunt argues that we all think the same, and that's a problem. To succeed as a health service we need more 'cognitive diversity', seeking different ways of thinking and opening ourselves up to challenge.

Marianne Monie tells us why we need to talk more about empathy and its significance to the care we provide. If we work in health and care then our work is all about people, and the one-by-one interactions between one human and another.

Kate Jopling argues that we’re putting too much pressure on communities to tackle problems they shouldn’t be expected to solve: the structural issues that can’t be masked with bunting and good intentions.

Addressing a complex problem such as childhood obesity needs a new way of thinking about what we’re trying to do, argues Rich Taunt, Pasha Elstak and Vincent Busch.

Anna Lewis calls for more discussion about the fine balance between institutional support and patient independence, and how they impact individuals' health and wellbeing. The art of being a good guest is knowing when to leave.