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Letter in Health Service Journal - 17 Sept 2009
"if we're still delivering healthcare the way we do today, by 2022 every able person in the country will be occupied looking after the less able - we have to change" summarised Derek Wanless's Securing our Future Health in 2002. But demand for healthcare will grow, and care means people.
So how do you get more for less (news, page 4, 3 September)?
Getting people involved in the business goes a long way.
Engage people setting the aims, the strategy and in making decisions. A lo of things don't need doing, but nobody knows which things until they ask why, and the answer has to come from people who understand both the business and the doing.
So fiddle about with nurseries and staff car parks at your peril - you'll save a few pounds but at what cost? To make a real difference we need to put our own job titles on the line and ask our staff for help.
Dr Hugo Minney, managing director, Minney.org
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