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“Could we just turn this all on its head?”

“Could we just turn this all on its head?”

IMPOWER recently held its fourth Shared Learning Event for adult social care professionals. We've summarised their experiences of managing demand at the adult social care front door.

by Geoff Hinkins - March 6, 2019

Primed to perform: remembering why you get out of bed in the morning and come to work

Primed to perform: remembering why you get out of bed in the…

IMPOWER’s focus on the delivery of measurable and sustainable change means we spend a lot of our time helping our clients to improve the performance of their own staff.

by Jon Ainger - February 18, 2019

Making behavioural science stick: six tips

Making behavioural science stick: six tips

Last week, Stephen Beet (Head of Service and Better Lives Programme Lead at Bristol City Council), Henrietta Curzon and I…

by Deborah Crossan - March 22, 2018

Nudge theory, the Nobel Prize – and social care

Nudge theory, the Nobel Prize – and social care

Earlier this month, the economist Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize – for his work on ‘nudge theory’ –…

by Jon Ainger - October 18, 2017

Demand, capacity and accessibility in GP practices and the wider system

Demand, capacity and accessibility in GP practices and the…

I recently moved house, and one of the numerous things I had to do after moving was register with a…

by Vanessa Reeve - June 15, 2017

Model hospitals, model outcomes?

Model hospitals, model outcomes?

NHS Improvement have announced that they will expand the ‘Model Hospital’ database to include mental health, community, specialist acute and…

by Nigel Guest - April 11, 2017

Holding up a mirror: the effectiveness of role play

Holding up a mirror: the effectiveness of role play

The problems facing many complex public sector services, such as adult social care, are often less to do with structure…

by Mark Methven - April 6, 2017

Thinking about hospital demand: A personal reflection

Thinking about hospital demand: A personal reflection

Like a lot of people over the Christmas period, our family was plagued by coughs and colds and general malaise….

by Amanda Kelly - January 10, 2017

Changing behaviours at scale: The challenge facing our health system

Changing behaviours at scale: The challenge facing our…

At the Conservative Party Conference earlier this month I attended an event on whether efficiency and patient expectations mutually exclusive….

by Jenna Collins - October 17, 2016

Behaviour change in education

Behaviour change in education

According to Garth Stahl – an academic who spent three years researching why white working class boys were the worst…

by Jenna Collins - March 3, 2016

Beyond a nudge is not another nudge

Beyond a nudge is not another nudge

This week I attended City University’s behaviour change seminar ‘Beyond Nudge: Risk, psychology and choice architecture in policy’. On the…

by Jenna Collins - February 12, 2016

To normalise or not to normalise?

To normalise or not to normalise?

During a training session I was running with a colleague recently, exploring the powerful impact of social norms on influencing…

by Harrie Palmer - November 6, 2015

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