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A successful partnership depends on when and how to choose the right partner. In this guest blog, Jane Harris, CEO of I CAN, shares what she's learned from nearly 20 years of partnership working in the charity sector.

What kind of leadership does health and care need right now? What support do people need to face the future with hope, agency and optimism? Catherine Russell and Rose Mosse explore leadership in complex and uncertain contexts.

A significant part of our work involves supporting health and social care organisations to design and deliver learning programmes. But the term ‘learning programme’ is quite hard to define. Lydia Paris breaks down how we help organisations to use learning to improve what they do.

Of all the times to take on a new job in the NHS, just before Christmas is an interesting choice in any year. Just before Christmas when a novel coronavirus is beginning to take hold in China and before the most unprecedented challenge to face the NHS since its inception could be considered unfortunate…

World Patient Safety Day is marked on 17 September. The theme this year is health worker safety: a priority for patient safety. For Suzette Woodward,  improving patient safety is about focusing on the culture, conditions and values that enable people to work safely.  

Why do patients' stories matter? Victor Montori explains why healthcare needs to make more time for conversations if we want to form relationships of careful and kind care.

At Kaleidoscope, we often grapple with what being kind means, and how we can build a future where kindness and connection are the norm. So when we read Victor Montori's 'Why We Revolt' we were struck by his vision of what is possible.

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.

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.

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.