Research into the provision of healthcare support for outpatient medical services, led by Dr Houyuan Jiang, University Senior Lecturer in Management Science at Cambridge Judge Business School, concludes that a unified Performance-Based Contract

How we feel?

Apr 21st, 2011 11m

David Halpern, Director of the Behavioural Insights Team at the Cabinet Office, and Professor Andrew Gamble of the University of Cambridge, says subjective well-being measurements are empowering citizens.

Our disconnected lives

Apr 21st, 2011 7m 2s

High and low scoring countries on the 'Well-Being' index tell us much about our own lifestyles and what makes us happy says Nic Marks, Founder of the Centre for Well-Being. Costa Rica does well.

Job losses, library closures

Apr 21st, 2011 4m 38s

The BBC's Claudia Hammond says earning a salary of over £20k doesn't necessarily make you any happier but job losses do matter - so will employment policies really change to incorporate 'well-being'?

The heart of 'well-being'

Apr 21st, 2011 13m 48s

Professor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-Being Institute, Jen Beaumont, Office of National Statistics, and Dr Simon Learmount, Director of the Executive MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School, say why well-being matters and how we measur

Measuring national 'well-being'

Apr 21st, 2011 40m 52s

How do we measure 'well-being' and what is its importance to individuals and society? What matters to you?

The politics of Aids

Jul 29th, 2010 13m 1s

Dr Peter Piot, Director of the Institute for Global Health, Imperial College, draws on his experience at the United Nations to explain why Aids needs business to provide the leadership of the future. Good leadership, he says, is about running p

Leading change

Jun 15th, 2010 14m 10s

Professor Dame Sandra Dawson led a team of consultants who advised the Department of Health on the establishment of their recently announced National Leadership Council, which has been designed to champion leadership in the NHS as it enters a n

Clinical leadership

Jun 15th, 2010 14m 20s

The recent Darzi report recommends an increase in clinical leadership in the NHS. Whilst Professor Stefan Scholtes believes it is important to have more clinicians on the board, he cautions that this approach needs to be thoughtfully implemente

Public sector pay freezes

Jun 15th, 2010 10m 50s

Dr Jenny Dean says NHS managers may well have to bite the bullet and accept a pay freeze in the coming year, but if it is executed in the right way and shown to benefit the NHS it may not demotivate staff. The right leadership is key to impleme

Delivering out of hospital healthcare in the UK

Jun 15th, 2010 10m 57s

Pam Garside's new report 'Out of Hospital Care - Lessons from the US' explains why technological advances that have lead to the development of pressure sensitive carpets, talking pill bottles that say when to take medicine and applications for