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Community Testimonial: Mark Chapman
Mark Chapman, CEO at Alliance Medical Group talks to us about the benefits of being part of the Practicus Community and how it can be used to solve business problems. […]
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The changing world of pharmaceuticals
The world of Pharma is undergoing significant change. “Big volume is now generic. To add value, you need to actually have a different proposition rather than just a per-milligram dose […]
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The Primacy of Primary
For three decades our health and care policies vacillated between three competing needs, with the third priority having an increasingly dominant run.
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Unnecessary Variation
About the NHS it would be its lack of consistency. I spend time in a lot of different organisations and there are significant variations in practice that can mean less than optimal clinical care for patients, as well as additional unnecessary expens
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Long Term Planning
Apart from the obvious wish for enhanced funding to arrive, the greatest limitation I have found with the NHS is the inability to plan service delivery (and thereby cost savings) over a long period.
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Sustainable Leadership
It would be the approach to recruitment, retention and development of leaders and leadership teams at all levels of the NHS.
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QI Training
After training over a thousand leads and clinical staff in the use of Quality Improvement (QI) tools, I am passionate about skills and capability building for NHS staff. If we always do what we have done, we will get the same results.
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Practicus rises to #2 in IIM survey
t has been a good first half to the year for Practicus. We turned 15 years old, we launched new value-added services based on our ONE + MANY model and we came 2nd in the Institute of Interim Management’s provider survey 2019, our highest ever position!
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Mental Health Awareness
Research shows that mental health problems in the workplace cost UK employers £26 billion per year, averaging £1,035 per employee. In fact, the vast majority of people will be impacted by mental health problems at some point in their life.
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Restructuring Funding
Having spent over 12 years in the NHS in a variety of consulting roles – mainly focused on transformation and turnaround challenges – I have seen huge change. Some of this has been progressive but unfortunately, a lot has been unsuccessful, failing to deliver both sustainable benefits for patients and staff, or efficiency gains and financial improvement.
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