Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: HSJ: The NHS and fundamental change ...

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Monday, April 15, 2013

HSJ: The NHS and fundamental change ...

 ... governments typically try to will the end but not the means: they try to shift the habits of the NHS while protecting buildings and people; or in Lord Darzi's pithy phrase, they change "the anatomy of the NHS rather than its physiology". p.16.

Finding the pith in Hodges' model (and the problem of refactoring - where would you like to start?):

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual
PURPOSE
cognitive geography
(the 'physiology' of mindsets)
Anatomy & Physiology
PROCESS 
structure, buildings,geography
time, events, space
 (habituated - )
PRACTICE
(collective purposes)
team integration

the NHS (organisation)
POLICY
workforce, funding 
local, regional, national, global
group - population

Seddon, N. (2013) Opinion: Learning from international innovators, HSJ, 12 April. 123: 6346; 16-17.