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Jul 194 min read

When Computers Catch a Cold: Health System Resilience in the Digital Age

Introduction As I talked about in my last blog post, health systems are complex things. At their full potential, all components of the...

Jul 73 min read

Lego brick resilience and the challenge of system austerity

A metaphor I often refer to in talks is the concept of lego brick resilience, particularly in the context of health systems, but what...

Jan 3, 20234 min read

Now is the winter of our discontent

Happy New Year to all of you. A time of celebration, of reflection, of goal-setting and ambition driving. Yet sadly a time of year when...

Oct 4, 20223 min read

Reflections on the (un)naturalness of disasters

Just over a week ago I had the pleasure of attending the morning sessions of the #NoNaturalDisasters campaign inaugaral conference in...

Jun 5, 20223 min read

From Integration to Coordination

Somehow it is now June 2022 and it seems a long time since I first talked about the impact of the latest legislative change to Emergency...

May 7, 20213 min read

Funding for LRFs

In the United Kingdom, Local Resilience Forums (LRFs) are non-statutory bodies designed to provide a single platform to bring together...

Feb 24, 20214 min read

The ICS White Paper

Many existing statutory and non-statutory requirements underpin the work of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) across...

Dec 5, 20203 min read

Destination Vaccination

It has been a number of months since I last put digital pen to paper through my blog, but it feels like only a number of days. In the...

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