Read the first in this series of blogs about designing and planning population based systems of care here. Step 1: Defining the scope The focus of a system may be: […]
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Muir Gray: How to design and plan population based systems
I will present the approach we use in designing and planning population based systems of care in ten short blogs. Here are the ten steps: Define the scope […]
Muir Gray: Meeting the Trish Greenhalgh challenge
In the debate about the NHS reforms that occupied so much Twitter space before the Health and Social Care Bill was passed, Trish Greenhalgh quite properly challenged me to use […]
Muir Gray: Ten essential questions that only systems can answer
I have met clinicians and patients in many parts of England in the last five years and here is a list of the type of questions that cannot be answered. […]
Muir Gray: Bye bye A&E, hello SFS
Reality is created by the language we use. Language creates reality rather than describing it; that is the consistent message from Ludwig Wittgenstein, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and John R Searle. […]
Muir Gray: How doctors working in systems could rescue healthcare
“We have nothing as bad as America’s worst, and nothing as good as America’s best,” wise words said to me by someone many years ago, and this principle has stood […]
Muir Gray: The need for systems
“All of a sudden a big mealie pudden came flying through the air.” This is the opening line of a Glaswegian song, which only gets worse, about an assault by […]
Muir Gray: Competition between systems for pride 2.0
I was born in the Borough of Partick and a couple of weeks ago watched Partick Thistle, or “Partick Thistle Nil” as they are affectionately called, for the first time […]
Muir Gray: Competition between systems for pride is effective and essential
Is care for people with rheumatoid disease better in Liverpool or Manchester? Is care for frail elderly people better in Somerset or Devon? Which big city has the best service […]
Muir Gray:”The most effective screening programme ever”
“The most effective screening programme ever,” this was Richard Doll’s gentle jest when I was director of national screening programmes. Aware of my efforts to ensure that screening did much […]