The annual event should be about empowering health staff to make real, practical changes to patient care - not lofty pledges that will never happen
Anyone who has followed it since it began two years ago will have noticed that NHS Change Day pledges are becoming the new year’s resolutions of healthcare: lofty, vague and unlikely to happen.
Let’s go back to the beginning. NHS Change Day is a response to the “computer says no” elements of NHS culture. It’s less about red tape – changing regulation is thoroughly out of scope – and more about giving excellent staff the permission to trust their professional judgment and get on with sensible, obvious stuff they can’t believe no one’s already fixed.
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