What a year it has been already. First NASA’s New Horizons discovers a snowman at the edge of the solar system, then Chang’e 4 lands in a crater on the far side of the moon.
What are your dreams for 2019?
I learned this week from the little museum in Grantham that Margaret Thatcher’s father inspired her with the idea that “if you can think it, you can do it” (Love her or loathe her, there’s no question that she changed Britain. Yes, it was a small grocer’s shop, away from the town centre and no indoor bathroom).
So our dream for 2019 is that as we bring about happier patients and happier GPs, we help the profession to be more of what it is meant to be.
In under 50 minutes you will need to think, you will be challenged, you will laugh, and yet you will know it makes sense. You will contrast the conceptual strength of GP with the failures of implementation.
You will hear the most comprehensive and cogent critique of recent policy I’ve come across. If you are an optimist, you will nonetheless come away with hope that while change is necessary, if we can think it, we can do it..
We’ve had an exciting start to the year with a practice launch on 2nd January in Lincolnshire (clue!), two more next week in Somerset and an accelerating programme through the winter.
I don’t know where we’ll be at the end of the year but I know it will be absolutely focussed on implementation. Thank you Chris for helping us understand what it’s for.
PS I’m ambivalent about Thatcher but she was right about a lot of things. A banner in the museum, “I want to turn us from a nation of “Wait until it’s given to you” to one of “Do it yourself””.
People of every political stripe can sign up to that. By the way, we’re looking for GPs with that attitude.
PPS The response has been huge already for our free Digital Triage Experience, and we have now enabled the first user in each practice to invite their colleagues. Compare notes on how you triaged each of the 50 cases and the time you saved.
Fly me to the moon
What a year it has been already. First NASA’s New Horizons discovers a snowman at the edge of the solar system, then Chang’e 4 lands in a crater on the far side of the moon.
What are your dreams for 2019?
I learned this week from the little museum in Grantham that Margaret Thatcher’s father inspired her with the idea that “if you can think it, you can do it” (Love her or loathe her, there’s no question that she changed Britain. Yes, it was a small grocer’s shop, away from the town centre and no indoor bathroom).
So our dream for 2019 is that as we bring about happier patients and happier GPs, we help the profession to be more of what it is meant to be.
What is general practice meant to be?
My discovery of the week was the RCGP James Mackenzie Lecture given on 20th December by Prof Chris Salisbury. What better title than “Designing healthcare for the people who need it.”?
Christmas and New Year are past, we’re getting the house straight again, and have more time to reflect. So I have a little work for you today:
Listen in full to Prof Salisbury’s lecture on Youtube.
In under 50 minutes you will need to think, you will be challenged, you will laugh, and yet you will know it makes sense. You will contrast the conceptual strength of GP with the failures of implementation.
You will hear the most comprehensive and cogent critique of recent policy I’ve come across. If you are an optimist, you will nonetheless come away with hope that while change is necessary, if we can think it, we can do it..
We’ve had an exciting start to the year with a practice launch on 2nd January in Lincolnshire (clue!), two more next week in Somerset and an accelerating programme through the winter.
I don’t know where we’ll be at the end of the year but I know it will be absolutely focussed on implementation. Thank you Chris for helping us understand what it’s for.
If you’ve heard it once, listen again.
Download the full transcript with pictures.
Have a bolder and happier New Year,
Harry Longman
PS I’m ambivalent about Thatcher but she was right about a lot of things. A banner in the museum, “I want to turn us from a nation of “Wait until it’s given to you” to one of “Do it yourself””.
People of every political stripe can sign up to that. By the way, we’re looking for GPs with that attitude.
PPS The response has been huge already for our free Digital Triage Experience, and we have now enabled the first user in each practice to invite their colleagues. Compare notes on how you triaged each of the 50 cases and the time you saved.
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