Making sense of failure demand in the NHS
Blog post
9th October 2025

I must be an unpleasant creature to share a room with. I snore. I smell. And I’m seemingly addicted to my way of doing things.

Knowing this, I booked two single rooms for me and a friend to go walking in the Peak District. For reasons that remain obscure, the app I used to make the booking failed. We ended up sharing a horrifyingly intimate, and mutually disturbing, twin room.

Things can only get better (?)
Long read
17th April 2025

Introducing a new online tool to help local health and care service planners think differently about healthy ageing.    

‘Analysis’ means to pull something apart. In the NHS, this typically means understanding something – changes in unplanned admissions, for example – by breaking something down into simpler constituent elements.  

But sometimes beliefs get pulled apart. Cherished assumptions; hopes for the future; things we need to be true. That kind of thing.

‘Internal Consultancy’: INSIGHTS from evidence and experience
Blog post
27th March 2025

In this blog, our Head of Policy, Fraser Battye, shares his reflections on a recent ‘SU INSIGHTS’ event on the ‘Internal Consultancy’ model.  

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Chief Minister to King Louis XIV, is credited with saying that:

“The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.”