Duncan O'Leary
Duncan works on projects looking at public services, skills and work.
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- Trust me, i'm a doctor The announcement from a group of 900 doctors that the government should look at moving away from an entirely tax-funded system of health is an interesting one. The obvious question is: why should we listen to them? Is it because they are experts who know the health service inside out? They are professionals after all. Or do they represent ?the producer interest? ? a phrase we keep hearing recently. In which case, why should we listen to them at all? Shouldn?t we be listening to service users... from : duncanoleary 3rd April 2006
- Back in the pavlova paradise The PHOs in particular seem to be doing some really interesting work by linking GPs, communities and other local health providers, and putting a big emphasis on preventative work. My favourite story is about a PHO not too far from Wellington (which is where we're staying at the moment). The Lower Hutt PHO launched itself by taking a market stall and exchanging frozen chickens for packets of cigarettes as part of a cessation campaign. They ceremonially burnt 50 packets of fags at the end of the... from : duncanoleary 1st May 2006
- Cancer Care The way in which medical staff provide care for cancer patients was explained to me over the weekend, and it has some really powerful features:- Cancer is dealt with by multi-disciplinary teams. This is borne out the recognition that a surgeon’s clinical knowledge may not always be enough on its own to provide the best overall solution for the patient. In this way, professionals guard against one perspective being allowed to dominate to the detriment others aspects of patient-care.-... from : duncanoleary 16th August 2004
- The way it should be The topic up for discussion in our seminar was Personalised Learning and the presenters, from an LEA, took us through the work that they have been engaged in over the few months.The exercise that they have been through has been to adopt David Miliband?s five gateways to personalisation as a framework for understanding and directing all of the work they do.Starting with key issues in local schools (such as behaviour and attendance) they have mapped out drivers of these issues (such as lack of... from : duncanoleary 9th March 2005
- I've been inspecting you Five steps to better inspectionWe expect a lot of our leaders. In education, we expect them to motivate, to innovate, to hold and be held to account, to combine competition collaboration and ? increasingly ? to align ?school standards? with the needs of the ?whole child?. Yet we often forget exactly who all the leaders in an education system really are. Headteachers have formal responsibility for their schools, and Chief Executives for their local areas, but there is another cadre of leaders... from : duncanoleary 7th October 2005
- NFER change for Children Site Just come across what looks a useful resource for anyone interested in Children's Services - The National Foundation for Educational Research has just launched it's Change for Children site. from : duncanoleary 11th October 2005
- 'Organisational Literacy' project - We?ll be looking beyond literacy and numeracy (though of course not dismissing them), to things like organisational savviness, communication, teamworking, problem-solving, creativity, and the ability to pick up new skills or new ideas quickly. - We?ll be having a look at Enterprise education in its first year in schools. - We?re looking for some case studies of organisations that help prepare people for the workplace, through things like working with schools, setting up training programmes... from : duncanoleary 30th November 2005
- It's all academic So i've been doing some reading for our project on Organisational litercy. Having been handed Our of Our Minds by Ken Robinson (i wasn't handed it by Ken Robinson, he wrote it) i started there. He makes an interesting point: that we often dismiss ideas as being 'purely academic' when we think they're out of touch with reality, but yet we have always placed such cudos on academic study in the way in which we educate people.It reminded me a bit of the point made by Charlie Leadbeater in Living... from : duncanoleary 5th December 2005
- The Leadership Imperative Our report on leadership in children's serives is out today (download it here). After much scratching of heads we called it The Leadership Imperative; we argue that the greatest challenge facing children's services is to change professional cultures, and whilst central government can help support this, it certainly can't 'deliver' it.The report's received some coverage in the last week or so. Hannah has a peice on the Guardian online; there is a report in the TES this week looking at our... from : duncanoleary 7th December 2005