Steve Black

A claim that NHS surgery is being held back by a shortage of anaesthetists should be taken with a pinch of salt

The core leadership lesson here is that three simple words – “I appreciate you” – are more powerful and transformative than “I love you” when it comes to building trust, safety and performance in relationships and teams.

Rather than rewriting NHS strategy, the new health and social care secretary should focus on transforming how the centre drives improvement, productivity and accountability, says Steve Black

Despite a 30 per cent increase in frontline staff since 2019, the NHS has failed to achieve their equivalent productivity gains - and a simple metaphor helps explain why

Seductive but wrong: the zombie ideas about demographics, social care, and NHS managers that keep driving health policy in the wrong direction - and why the NHS can no longer afford them

Like baseball's Moneyball revolution, the NHS needs to use its vast data more intelligently to identify what really drives better performance, says Steve Black.

The NHS could learn from a wartime naval unit that used games to rapidly develop and spread tactics, argues Steve Black

“What’s the biggest challenge in our world today?” That’s a question I’m asked all the time.

The NHS will waste money on new technology if it fails to redesign the processes needed to turn IT investment into productivity gains

Technology can transform NHS productivity, but only if leaders first understand the problems they need data and AI to solve, says Steve Black