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Some 70% of change initiatives fail. So what makes the difference and how do you apply this to healthcare? With experience of supporting more than 100 organisations, we’ve come to focus on six principles.

As part of our What Unites Us project, Victor Montori shares some questions. And wants to know whether there are three questions that will give us the answer to all of them.

When people think about healthcare, they usually think about clinical practices and professionals, but the health and care family is much wider than that. Zoey Robson on judging 'What unites us?' and the integral role of estates and facilities.

Making effective system strategies is hard, but it’s not impossible. But we do need to understand how different a system strategy is to an organisational one, which means shared ownership and understanding success will be hard to demonstrate.

How we treat each other at work is the single biggest determinant affecting both individual and organisational performance. Dan Grimes from the Royal Liverpool Hospital suggests how we can make it a reality in the NHS.

Five years ago, Ben Allen faced some significant challenges in his GP practice. He summarises some of the steps that they took to improve their organisational health.

The NHS is 75 years old. What are the chances of it reaching 100? Rich Taunt outlines five risks it faces over the next 25 years and why the answers to them are in an honest conversation rather than a royal commission.

If you're developing a strategy, looking at what others have done can be a good place to start. So we’ve read through numerous NHS trust strategies to assess how they're responding to the changing roles of providers.

What happens when a mother can’t communicate her needs to those providing her and her child with care? Esther Sekyere reflects on her work as a neonatal nurse and highlights the issues of language barriers in maternity care.

Healthcare isn't like any other industry. ConfedExpo showed Rich Taunt that maybe we need to observe less, ask the right questions and listen to real stories.