NHS coffin ships: how saving our NHS could rescue the UK economy
As our hospitals turn into ‘coffin ships’ – crumbling, unsafe, and underfunded – we ask the chancellor, will you act...
Read moreDetailsJohn Carlisle is an adviser and activist in private and public sector collaborative system change. His company JCP was the largest provider of collaborative projects in Europe in the 1990s. Now retired, he is an NHS activist and works on economic reform especially in the public sector.
He became best known for his success in organisational transformation through cooperation, e.g. BNFL, British Rail, Welsh Water, De Beers, etc.
John was chair of the Leadership Development Institute at Rhodes University in the 2000s and visiting professor at the Sheffield Business School from 2006 to 2013.
As our hospitals turn into ‘coffin ships’ – crumbling, unsafe, and underfunded – we ask the chancellor, will you act...
Read moreDetailsRefocusing the NHS on its original mission is a must, but change needs to start with how ministers, not doctors,...
Read moreDetailsModern Monetary Theory is an answer to Britain’s financial woes
Read moreDetailsA chance meeting led to a long friendship with a man who stood up for communities from London to Southern...
Read moreDetailsWill Labour finally tackle the reform of hospital discharge delays in the NHS to free up beds and provide adequate...
Read moreDetailsThe Tory chickens are coming home to roost, as the consequences of self-serving incompetence and a heartless Treasury are revealed
Read moreDetailsThe Conservative government has broken everything: it's time to take back control
Read moreDetailsDr Carlisle rejects the passive acceptance of environmental gloom, sharing positive local advances – let’s rekindle our relationship with nature
Read moreDetailsThe UK’s first high-speed rail project, HS1, was a success in both time and budget, but the second, HS2, has...
Read moreDetailsHow the dutiful competence of the civil service both at home and abroad contrasts with governmental incompetence and blind ideology
Read moreDetailsJohn Carlisle finds uncanny relevance in the words of Edward Carpenter, a passionately humane 19th century thinker
Read moreDetailsJohn Carlisle explores the roots of our broken economy and proposes a solution inspired by an ethically sound bank based...
Read moreDetailsAfter 40 years of British citizenship, and more than a decade Tory misrule, John Carlisle wonders if what he needs...
Read moreDetailsYears of mismanagement have left the NHS in a state of chaos – business guru John Carlisle examines the faulty...
Read moreDetailsEscalating strikes everywhere are surely a wake-up call; obstinate government orthodoxy and intransigence keep the UK economy in stagnation
Read moreDetailsAfter 12 years of Conservative rule and systematic underfunding, the NHS is in crisis. Dr John Carlisle responds to the...
Read moreDetailsWith a shocking 500 unnecessary deaths per week due to delays in getting medical attention the Treasury’s wilful blindness persists
Read moreDetailsThe UK is suffering increasingly chaotic conditions. Does the grim experience of South Africa offer a glimpse of what is...
Read moreDetailsWhen it comes to the British economy, the issue that needs addressing is management, not workforce skills
Read moreDetailsDr John Carlisle reviews the current state of NHS management and suggests strategies for ways in which it might be...
Read moreDetailsDavis is wrong to suggest the NHS will be improved by a further restructure and the introduction of private insurers...
Read moreDetailsDr John Carlisle addresses some key NHS problems caused by the desperate state of social care and the lack of...
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