Tom's 5-Minute Friday Podcast
By Tom Bell - Cormetis Consulting
Tom's 5-Minute Friday PodcastJan 26, 2024
Edward de Bono's Missing Hat
Why I think it's the most important one and what colour it might be...
Have your say on the state of leadership in the NHS...
The Department of Health and Social Care is seeking views on the role of leadership in the NHS; don't be shy!
Understanding must trump forgiveness
Before we can forgive one another we have to understand one another. Emma Goldman
Dog Shit Sniffers -
Academics and theorists might know what it smells like, but they've never had their faces pushed into it.
From Us and Them, to We...
You won't lie on your deathbed and remember the Apple Watch you didn't get for Christmas.
Understanding over forgiveness
Before we can forgive one another we have to understand one another.
You can't legislate for character.
The government's decision on the Hillsborough Law is disappointing if not unexpected. But it wouldn't have solved the problem.
These things called democracy and free speech
...can we please stop being so sensitive and British?
Politics, what the hell are we going to do with it?
Jeremy Hunt is telling stories of tax cuts while public services are on their knees!
Is it really enough to say, "I wrote a letter to senior managers"?
The lionizing of Dr. Ravi Jayaram seems a little strange to me.
I won't be wearing a poppy this year...
My actions throughout the entire year are my tribute to the fallen.
Confirmation and belief bias, the source of much angst...
We look for information that will support our beliefs, we tend not to look for evidence that we might be wrong.
Is it time to talk, or to acknowledge the issues facing us?
Talk has become a surrogate for change and for the ambition to change.
You used to have to hold a licence to own a dog...
Mandatory training for public sector leaders.
If a tree is chopped down at Sycamore Gap and nobody hears it...
The bias of Distance Decay and the things we concern ourselves with.
Can a man who is warm understand a man who is cold? (no)
The views of academics are not the insights of those with experience...
Is a safe space the same as an acquiescent echo chamber?
Or a place where what people feel needs to be said can be said without fear?
The twin levers of improvement are control and choice...
...so let's give communities control of their health and care services.
Leadership in the NHS...
...leave your brains in a jar and hang your balls on the coat hooks provided.
Lucy Letby and the role of leaders and managers...
You can't control the uncontrollable, but there is no excuse for not controlling what you can.
No Wealth But Life - What's Gone Wrong with Healthcare in Britain and How We Can Save the NHS...
Public Health and the Ambulance Down in the Valley
Carswell has floated like a toxic turd that refuses to sink, across the Atlantic...
The IYI's (Intellectual Yet Idiot) are to be mocked, but to be feared even more.
No Wealth But Life, thank you...
Thank you to everyone who has made time to feedback their views on my book, it means a lot to me :-)
No Wealth But Life...
Conversations about Britain's healthcare have to be conversations about society.
The six men, the elephant, and the consultant...
An industry of think tanks and advisors.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings...
There is no wealth, but life.
A lady called Rachel...
Sometimes a thing just needs doing.
It's International Nurses Day today...
...the NHS needs to start valuing them and listening to them.
Born on the 05th May, one day late for the force to be with her...
...today would have been my sister Alison's 57th birthday.
No Wealth, But Life
What’s Gone Wrong with Healthcare in Britain, and What We Need to Do to Save the NHS...
Rory Sutherland and someone called Tom Bell (who's he?)
Come and join us for what promises to be a fascinating and informative free event on Wednesday 03rd May at 6pm...
Safe in whose hands?
Our health and care are too important to be left in the hands of politicians and panjandrums...
The value is in the journey...
We may not achieve the things we set out to achieve, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have tried.
We only fail when we don't try...
I lost the fight of my life this week. But it would feel a whole lot worse if I hadn't even stepped into the ring.
Thirty years of real hurt...
...the final hurdle to secure a fresh inquest for Alison is on Tuesday 21st March; here's hoping!
Norway, Neoliberalism, and Kintsugi...
...and why closure is not really a thing.
Let's be more French and Scandinavian...
At what point should we put our heads above the parapet?
The Law of Triviality...
Just in case you need five minutes away from that important thing you're doing...
Can I just wake up on the 21st March, please?
The High Court beckons, nothing has prepared me to reach the end of my journey.
A bit of good news this week...
...and why the NHS can't learn from its mistakes.
Everyone's a great actor, it's just a bad play...
The current debate about the NHS and the state of healthcare will not be addressed by those who've allowed it to happen.
If Carlsberg did healthcare...
How have we allowed our health and care system to reach this point?
The NHS is in crisis, it has been for some time, and it was entirely predictable...
As it approaches its 75th Birthday, let's have a conversation about our National Health Service.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light...
A Christmas podcast for those who are not easily offended.
The issues that occur today are the result of yesterdays decisions and acts...
If excellence is the result of what we do in the next five minutes, then so are tragedy and harm.
The cost of wilful blindness...
...it may seem like an abstract concept, but it's costing us all billions (and yes, that's billions with a B!)
We had a national debate about our membership of the EU...
...perhaps we should have one very soon about the future of our NHS?
The world felt smaller than it has for quite some time this Monday...
Will the arc of the moral universe ultimately bend towards justice, or is that just lazy thinking?
A strategy on its own won't fix the NHS...
...it's all about people, and what underpins their behaviors, actions, responses, and thinking.
Another avoidable NHS tragedy
Tragedy and harm emerge from the avoidance of constructive conflict.