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Memory, learning, history, loss, curiosity, energy. These are not terms normally associated with NHS improvement. But our week-long Changing Healthcare conference provided a week of stimulating talks by service and clinical champions, researchers, and thought leaders. It provided different ways of thinking about the past and the present. Tara Lamont summarises some of the key lessons.

As people age and live longer, the complexity of their health and social care needs means that a collective effort from several agencies is essential.   Although collaboration can be difficult, Meg Wright explores the benefits of a bolder approach to building stronger cross-sector relationships.

We describe ourselves as a consultancy of a different kind. Why? Because our mission is to seek a world that is kinder, more connected and joyful. That mission that runs through everything we do, from recruitment, to the way we treat each other, to the work we deliver. It really isn’t as fluffy as it sounds. Kindness should be at the heart of healthcare, here’s why.

Kindness? Isn’t that all a bit motherhood and apple pie? Something with the whiff of touchy-feely psychobabble? Not quite the sort of thing that serious busy people need to get excited about. David Haslam explores why kindness isn't just something to insert in your organisational mission statement and then ignore.

How we can develop a more holistic way of thinking about health and care with community groups impacted by Covid-19? Kay Olivierre kickstarts the conversation with health and care practitioners to develop meaningful improvements.

There is an often quoted statistic that 70% of transformation efforts fail. There is no clear source for this and sometimes the figure is even higher. It is not clear what the figure is for the NHS and estimation is made harder by it not being clear what to count.

The health system has had to change quickly in response to the challenges of Covid-19. How can positive developments be maintained and what can be learned from previous examples of successful, lasting change in healthcare?

As a GP Principal for the last 19 years running a list size of 5,000, one of my sadnesses was that my patients weren’t getting joined up care. I wasn’t giving it and as a system we weren’t able to deliver it, but primary care networks are changing that.

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…

I’ve never considered myself much of a ‘health person’. Don’t get me wrong, I care deeply about health. But now I am moving out of the sector (for now at least), I want to reflect on what I’ve learned during my time here.