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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.

Adrian Ruth reflects on his experiences at Super Melting Pot visiting Babylon Health, learning about workplace civility and driving culture change.

How will we know if personalised care actually works if the NHS is not well equipped to ask patients about it? Miles Sibley explores what the NHS has to do to understand personal patient experience.

Gulp. It’s the noise your throat makes when you swallow. When you push something down and out of sight: food, thoughts, emotions. It happens when you know you’ve done something wrong. When you’re excited or nervous or afraid.

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.