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As the founder and CEO of the Core Solutions Group, I spend a great deal of time thinking and speaking about mediation, negotiation, conflict management, leadership and communication. I am told I should write some of these thoughts down… so, here goes…
This is an expanded version of the article which appeared in The Times on 6 January. To address fully the challenges in the provision of health care and social care in Scotland, I sense that we …
To address fully the challenges in the provision of health care and social care in Scotland, we may need a paradigm shift. In other words, a fundamental change in our way of thinking about how …
Giving evidence to the Scottish Covid Inquiry recently, Donald Macaskilll, chief executive of Scottish Care, said that the Crown Office investigation into the circumstances of care home deaths during the pandemic has “broken” staff in …
“I predict Scotland’s NHS will not last until it is 100 years old.” The chair of BMA Scotland, Dr Iain Kennedy, has again called for a national conversation on the future of the NHS, urging …
John Sturrock has contributed the following reflections, on leadership in the NHS, to Reform Scotland’s excellent NHS 2048 initiative: “The key to doing well lies not in overcoming others, but in eliciting their co-operation.” (Robert Axelrod) “…whatever change …
“O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us!” I am writing this on Burns Night and reflecting on a recent conversation with an acquaintance. I left our meeting feeling deeply …
Gillian Bowditch’s description in The Sunday Times this week of the attack on a schoolgirl at Waid Academy in Anstruther, Fife, brought back memories from 50 years ago. In 1973, I became a pupil at …
There is pressure for an inquiry into the response to the Covid pandemic in Scotland. If it proceeds, there are questions to be addressed about its scope and format. First, what would be its purpose? There …
“The only thing which will redeem mankind is co-operation,” observed the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Perhaps only a real crisis is enabling us truly to appreciate what this means and what it might take. What if …
I have been writing articles for the Scotsman law pages for many years. Occasionally it has been difficult to find a topic or a theme. But this must be the most difficult of all. What …
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