Books

Language creates reality, it does not describe it. That is one of the principles that has emerged from anthropology, linguistics and philosophy from authors as diverse as Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Searle and Benjamin Lee Whorf.

Confusion about language and the meaning of the terms being used is one of the main causes of arguments, fruitless arguments, which disappear if everyone shares the same understanding of the term.

At OVSP we developed the 21st Century Healthcare Glossary with the principles of clarifying the meaning of commonly used terms to improve dialogue and decision making. This book is based on the Glossary and is based on the principles which James Murray used when that determined Scot produced the Oxford English Dictionary while living just two miles down the road from the OVSP.

How To Talk About Books You Have Not Read is a wonderful book by Pierre Bayard. The book can be read at two different levels as many books can. On one level it is a humorous book, a little like the book by Stephen Potter called One-upmanship, which had advice on how to impress people with one’s literary credentials even though one had never read the classics. Pierre Bayard, however, makes a very serious point - that no one will ever read all the books that they need to read or could read in their particular topic. It is far more important to know about a book and its core message, preferably in the author’s own words, and to understand how that book fits into the culture and relates to other books and concepts then not to know that a book existed. This is the principle behind our fundamental book list.

• Chapter 1: The need for value-based healthcare
• Chapter 2: The meaning of value
• Chapter 3: Hellish decisions in healthcare
• Chapter 4: Transformation by changing the structure
• Chapter 5: Transformation through systems development
• Chapter 6: Transformation through cultural revolution
• Chapter 7: The next paradigm: zero carbon healthcare

• Chapter 1: Meeting the challenges of the 2020’s: More of the same is not enough!
• Chapter 2: The new paradigm for the 2020’s: Value for populations and individuals through systems and stewardship
• Chapter 3: Taking the population perspective
• Chapter 4: Designing population-based systems
• Chapter 5: Optimising personal value
• Chapter 6: Delivering the system’s objectives through networks
• Chapter 7: Creating the right culture
• Chapter 8: Organisational and professional development to create the new culture
• Chapter 9: The future

• Chapter 1: Focusing on culture to save universal healthcare
• Chapter 2: Healthcare culture and subcultures
• Chapter 3: Why culture is important
• Chapter 4: What is the relationship between culture and leadership?
• Chapter 5: How can culture be appraised?
• Chapter 6: Sculpting the culture
• Chapter 7: The meanings of Stewardship
• Chapter 8: Leading a revolution for Stewardship
• Chapter 9: Creating the culture of Stewardship

Coming Soon

• Chapter 1: 21st century healthcare - the systems century
• Chapter 2: What is a healthcare system?
• Chapter 3: Why is a systems approach to healthcare essential
• Chapter 4: How do systems play their part in 21st century healthcare?
• Chapter 5: How to build a healthcare system
• Chapter 6: How are healthcare systems best managed
• Chapter 7: How to develop a systems culture

Coming Soon