Tom's 5-Minute Friday Podcast
By Tom Bell
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A collection of things that matter to me and might also matter to you. Thoughts, views, ideas, and opinions.
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Can a duty of candour really work?
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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A resolution for 2026...writing more letters!
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Stop saying "things happen for a reason"...
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Hillsborough and what the IOPC missed...
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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The concept of failure demand...
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Have you forgotten remembrance day yet?
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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No prizes for success and no penalties for failing.
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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The NHS embodies collective compassionate civilization
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Concave World theory...
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Who decides what is in the public interest?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Post Truth Pat and his black & white views
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Let's keep a sense of perspective, please...
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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#OperationRaiseYourKidsWithGoodRoleModels
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Trust me, it's not about the peach slices...
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Please can we start to get the basics right!
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Understanding beats forgiveness...
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Actually, they are not your organisations!
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Shall we talk about truth to powerlessness?
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Do organisations that cannot die become complacent?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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What is the purpose of the NHS?
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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That time King Charles spoke sense...
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The facade is slipping, yes, we are the baddies...
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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What constitutes a "strong view"?
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Agnotology, ragnotology and ragnotologists...
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May 22, 2025 |
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By their fruits shall you know them...
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May 16, 2025 |
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When elephants fight it's the ants that suffer...
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May 09, 2025 |
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The power of disconnection...
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May 02, 2025 |
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Sure, let's get a Hillsborough Law now...
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Ethics, are they still relevant?
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The Valley of the Clueless...
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Don’t get angry, get up to speed...
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Black MAGA - can someone help me make sense of it?
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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WTF (water the feck) is going on?
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Living in an age of agnotology
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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It's a sign of failure that we need the nutter...
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Three things you can do to help you stay sane...
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Is branding reaching for a new high?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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The NHS list of priorities for 2025/26
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Kindness, the kids have nailed it...
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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Think Tank or Stink Tank?
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Should we care if one of Paris Hilton's homes has burned down?
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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The meaning of Christmas...
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Friday the 13th...
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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They take the credit but not the criticism...
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Trust and technology - sorted!
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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How little we know, how much to discover...
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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Phil Foden must have been gutted...
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Hiding your values under a bushel?
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Do organisational values add value?
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Kipling's Children
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Leaders need to learn to surface issues...
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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We are weird, aren't we?
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Dignified deaths and the sanctity of life...
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Taking back the country...
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Has the time for candour finally arrived?
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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The pressures of the system...
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Why I established Cormetis Consulting...
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Should we co-quest before we co-create?
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Packham, foxgloves, bee's, and hedgehogs
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Ownership of the issue...
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Ignorance is not bliss...
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May 31, 2024 |
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VoteNoVote.com
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May 24, 2024 |
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The Samaritans...
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May 17, 2024 |
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Politics in Britain is broken...
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May 10, 2024 |
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Why Bother Trying?
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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We are a funny bunch aren't we...
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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The Garrick Club, an unwelcome throwback to Dickensian times...
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Is it time to talk, or to acknowledge the issues facing us?
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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You used to have to hold a licence to own a dog...
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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If a tree is chopped down at Sycamore Gap and nobody hears it...
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Can a man who is warm understand a man who is cold? (no)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Is a safe space the same as an acquiescent echo chamber?
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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The twin levers of improvement are control and choice...
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Leadership in the NHS...
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Lucy Letby and the role of leaders and managers...
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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No Wealth But Life - What's Gone Wrong with Healthcare in Britain and How We Can Save the NHS...
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Carswell has floated like a toxic turd that refuses to sink, across the Atlantic...
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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No Wealth But Life, thank you...
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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No Wealth But Life...
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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The six men, the elephant, and the consultant...
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings...
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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A lady called Rachel...
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May 19, 2023 |
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It's International Nurses Day today...
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May 12, 2023 |
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Born on the 05th May, one day late for the force to be with her...
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May 05, 2023 |
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No Wealth, But Life
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Rory Sutherland and someone called Tom Bell (who's he?)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Safe in whose hands?
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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The value is in the journey...
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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We only fail when we don't try...
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Thirty years of real hurt...
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Norway, Neoliberalism, and Kintsugi...
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Let's be more French and Scandinavian...
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The Law of Triviality...
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Can I just wake up on the 21st March, please?
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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A bit of good news this week...
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Everyone's a great actor, it's just a bad play...
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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If Carlsberg did healthcare...
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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The NHS is in crisis, it has been for some time, and it was entirely predictable...
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light...
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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The issues that occur today are the result of yesterdays decisions and acts...
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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The cost of wilful blindness...
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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We had a national debate about our membership of the EU...
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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The world felt smaller than it has for quite some time this Monday...
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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A strategy on its own won't fix the NHS...
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Another avoidable NHS tragedy
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Don't forget World Values Day on the 20th October...
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Well said Joe!
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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A big week in our quest for justice...
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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What we now need from King Charles
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Muse are telling us we are all f*****g fucked...
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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There really is no wealth but life...
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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If you do what you've always done...
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Self Help Authors, what are they on!
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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What is the purpose of government?
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Let's talk about a bloke called Jeff...
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Speaking up safely in health and care services...
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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I read Jeremy Hunts book about the NHS last week...
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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The use of language to drive progress...
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Whistleblowers don’t get sacked for whistleblowing.
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May 27, 2022 |
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An increasing role for good journalism in the UK...
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May 20, 2022 |
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Can we have more centralization and less variation in the NHS, please?
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May 13, 2022 |
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Why do we expect so little from public services?
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May 06, 2022 |
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The power of nature...
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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So many people have a plan...
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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A message to Public Sector Chief Executives - The little details matter...
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Captives or customers?
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospitals...
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Some poetry about pallets and a free event...
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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I don't want choice or competition in Public Services...
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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This week was international women's day....
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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We are where we are because of decisions made previously...
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Fighting emerges from the avoidance of conflict...
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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What does post-truth and post-trust era mean?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Targets, what are they good for...
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Rory Stewart is right, so what now?
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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The little things matter...
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Who really is the customer of public services?
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Who is Tom Bell?
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Real life really is stranger than fiction...
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Have yourself a very merry Christmas
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Trust not targets...
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Thirty years of hurt
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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The weekend of the radicals...
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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The elephants in the public sector room...
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Fighting is the avoidance of conflict...
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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It's the hope that kills you...
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Should we have a "No Vote" option on ballot papers in the UK?
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Are we patients or customers?
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Politeness and deference is stifling improvement...
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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It will be World Values Day on the 21st October
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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How much can you talk before you actually do something?
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Ikigai - profound and simple
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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There are multiple conflicting definitions of organisational insanity...
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Regulation isn't working...
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Regulators, what are they good for?
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Wilful Blindness and Trust, at Work
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Target Obsession Disorder (TOD) - it's real and it's here!
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Its Truth Tellers (Whistleblowers) day on the 30th July...
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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England's gone mad, and the best quick win ever!
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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A bit on wilful blindness...
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Improvement begins with understanding
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Hadrian's Wall - The Map is NOT the Terrain
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions; its cheesy but true...
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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We need teams in our public sector services, not families
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May 28, 2021 |
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Two reasons to be cheerful...
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May 21, 2021 |
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PR in our public services isn't dead, but it should be...
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May 14, 2021 |
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What is the price of experience?
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May 07, 2021 |
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Whistleblowers are heroes...
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May 04, 2021 |
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The Killing of George Floyd and wilful blindness
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Podcast 28 - Trust Not Targets...
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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We all ****-up and drop our bananas at some point, its what we do next that defines us as human...
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Jan 22, 2021 |